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Trump's executive order on the Muslim Brotherhood: Insufficient progress
The decision to implement the project by focusing on specific branches, rather than the entire movement, leaves loopholes for other affiliates to renew and evade sanctions. More importantly, Qatar does not appear as a target of the measure.
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President Donald Trump's decision to designate certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist entities represents a step forward in combating Islamist extremism. However, one critical flaw threatens to render this measure little more than a political gesture: the omission of the role of facilitator states, especially Qatar.
"The executive order did not take immediate action, instead mandating a report to target specific sectors of the Brotherhood and its affiliates in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. The president laid the groundwork for terrorism designations by citing statements and actions by certain groups against Israel following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack and the subsequent war."
If the Trump Administration moves forward with the designations significant financial sanctions could be applied to Muslim Brotherhood groups and associates, such as freezing assets they may have in the United States and or making it a crime to materially support them, which would prevent U.S. citizens, companies and institutions from doing business with them.
To understand the magnitude of this order, it is necessary to understand what the Muslim Brotherhood is. Founded in Egypt in the late 1920s by Hassan al-Banna, a teacher and not a religious cleric, the organization proposed the vision of integrating the Islamic religion into public life through education, charity and grassroots organizations. Over the years, it grew into an organization with branches and local cells that gave it a broad base and significant influence.
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Although I agree with the concerns of this article, I think it is super wise of Trump admin to evaluate chapters. Otherwise we just inflame the left with raising reasonable concerns of a witch hunt. Doing it this way demonstrates a good faith gesture from the government to apply American Due Process on the world...lol. And demonstrate how we "understand" people have a right to their religion. But not the right to inflict pain or kill others. I believe the world would have to agree on that at least at the News Paper level if not more.
So I think this is a milk shake in the works. A cocktail the bartender is getting all the ingredients in line for the long night ahead. All those customers coming. I believe what we will get is good faith evaluations to sustain the real concerns with the terror elements of the movement. Link them to Obama. And break the whole thing wide open. I believe something like that has a pretty high chance of coming to fruition. And it would be great to see before the midterms. But if it does go down like that, it might actually be a result (rather than cause) of the outcome of the midterms. Hard to say.
One thing i am glad about is that finally the brotherhood is being evaluated. They need to be. And i'm pretty sure the needle in that haystack is Obama (and the deep see creatures hiding beneath his ever so slightly bubbling forth to the surface wake). Blessings.
