TRUMP Administration efforts to get the Muslim Brotherhood designated as a terrorist group has support from Arab allies
www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/b4ff39e7f604a6a4e01125d9f197cf30-board-member-muslim-brotherhood-e1502312389663.jpg?resize=400%2C400" alt="" width="400" height="400" />Arab allies of the U.S. are expressing support for the Trump administration to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, according to statements from foreign officials and a senior administration official who spoke to Fox News. Disturbingly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Advisor Traitor, HR McMaster have come out against doing it.
FOX News (h/t Trico L) Speaking last week at the United Nations in response to a question from Fox News, the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.N., Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, expressed support for such a move. “It would be a positive step forward indeed,” he said.
Salman Al-Ansari, president of the Saudi American Public Affairs Committee, told Fox News that the West is suffering from “laziness and must do its homework.”
“The U.S. needs to confront the evils of the Brotherhood as soon as possible,” he said. “If you have Saudi Arabia saying the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group, if you have Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) saying it’s a terrorist group, then what should stop the U.S. from designating the MB as a terrorist group as long there are hundreds of pieces of evidence that prove this fact?”
The Brotherhood is banned as a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt. The UAE has also designated CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) a terrorist organization.
Fox News previously reported on the internal debates and deliberations in the Trump White House on the move to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO.)
“The fight is far from over,” a senior administration official told Fox News. “The commitment inside the West Wing to the question of designating the Brotherhood has not waned,” the official told Fox News.
“The White House completely understands how the modern global jihadi threat, which the president has rightly described as radical Islamic terrorism, can be driven back at its roots to the Brotherhood.”
There were several Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the government during the Obama regime and we don’t know how many of them remain now. But considering that HR McMaster has refused to drain the swamp of any former Obama employees, it stands to reason that many of them are still there.
Christopher Holton of the Center for Security Policy, a group that has been at the forefront of efforts to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, told Fox News, “It is an absolutely essential step. As the Egyptian ambassador well knows, the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood are identical to those of all the jihadist organizations, such as ISIS, Al Qaeda and Hamas: the establishment of an Islamic state ruled by Sharia.”
Holton blamed what he called “The Swamp in the State Department” headed by Rex Tillerson for stopping the designation so far. He also blamed some members of the Trump administration, including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.
Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News that during the early weeks of the Trump presidency a large number of analysts warned that the move was, “ill-advised,” arguing that the move “would alienate the Muslim world and encumber diplomacy.”
David Reaboi, the senior vice-president for strategic operations at the Security Studies Group, added, “Designating the Muslim Brotherhood would be a tremendous step in the right direction. The Muslim Brotherhood has been identified, rightly, as a threat by the countries that know it best — like Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia — among others.”
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I HOPE THEY STICK WITH IT AND IT'S NOT JUST TALK