Trump Prepares to Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organisation – At Last, a Dose of Reality

One is almost tempted to say "about time." President Donald Trump has announced his intention to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation. "It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” he told Just The News. "Final documents are being drawn." 

The move follows swiftly on the heels of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's designation of both of the Brotherhood and of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organisations. Abbott, who seems to always be one step ahead of the herd, was characteristically blunt: "The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam's 'mastership of the world.' The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable."

CAIR, predictably, has run whimpering to the courts.

Let us remind ourselves what we are dealing with. Founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood has never hidden its ultimate ambition: the restoration of the Caliphate and the subjugation of the world to Islamic law. Its Palestinian offshoot, Hamas, states quite openly in its 1988 charter that it is "one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine." 

Hamas, of course, remains dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews wherever they may be found. 

In the West, the Brotherhood's various front organizations have perfected the art of sounding almost reasonable. They issue the obligatory condemnations of "terrorism," always carefully worded, always provisional. Yet, as the Foundation for Defense of Democracies noted in a recent brief, such moderation "is almost always born of prudence, not principle." The Brotherhood is merely more patient than al-Qaeda or Islamic State; it prefers the slow, civilizational jihad of infiltration to the fireworks of immediate violence. It hesitates to provoke a host government that might still be useful, and it uses its laws to gain the advantage in their actions.

Also, it places the highest value on remaining free to advance its ideology incrementally, especially in Muslim-majority countries where it can still dream of seizing power by ballot box or bullet.

None of this is conspiracy theory; it is the Brotherhood's own published doctrine. Which brings us to the most damning indictment of all, delivered this week by Dr. Charles Asher Small, founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. His institute has just released a 265-page report mapping the Brotherhood's century-long project of "ideological, institutional, and financial penetration into North America."

Dr Small's summary is crystal clear:

This is not simply a political movement but a transnational ideological project that adapts itself to Western systems while working to undermine them. The Brotherhood has learned to use the very freedoms of democracy as tools to erode it from within, exploiting the tolerance and openness of liberal societies as strategic vulnerabilities.

That is the essence of the matter. The Muslim Brotherhood is not misunderstood; it is not moderate; it is not reformable. It is a sophisticated, patient, supremacist movement that regards our open societies not as partners but as prey. For decades, Western governments, terrified of being called "Islamophobic,"  have allowed its operatives to set up shop, buy influence, and groom the next generation, all while pocketing taxpayer funds and lecturing us about tolerance. President Trump's designation, if it is finally enacted with the full force he promises, will be a long-overdue recognition of reality. 

One can only hope it is the beginning, not the end, of a serious reckoning with the civilizational threat posed by Islamist ideologues who smile for the cameras while sharpening the knife behind their backs.

And perhaps we can end the no-go zones, as President Trump says, "all over the place."

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