Trump is taking steps to designate Muslim Brotherhood affiliates as terrorist groups

President Trump on Monday asked us to have the US label some of the Eastern contacts of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups, taking aim at the Islamic opposition.

In an executive order, the President directed his administration to consider whether to designate whether or not to designate Muslim chapters in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan or elsewhere as terrorist terrorist organizations. He gave Secretary of State Marco Marco Rubio and Secretary of State Scott Becrent Besstent 30 days to submit a report, and 45 days after that to act.

The order states that the three countries are ‘Islamic Muslim countries’ that participate in or place and support violent campaigns and clean-up campaigns. ”

It accused the military wing of the Lebanese chapter of the latter of helping to launch rockets into Israel after the terrorist attack on Oct, 7, 2023, and it was suspected of attacking the leader of the Egyptian chapter “after this attack.

The White House also said that Jordanian members of the Chapter “have provided material support to the militant wing of Hamas,” itself a foreign terrorist organization and designated foreign terrorist organization.

If the groups were designated as terrorist organizations, it would be illegal under US law to knowingly provide financial or other tangible support to them. The designation could also lead to travel bans against members or freezing of funds held in US banks.

Founded in Egypt nearly a century ago, the Muslim Brotherhood is an influential political movement in the southern Middle East. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood political party, Mohammed Morsi, was there He elected the President of Egypt In 2012 after the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak, although Morsi was ousted by the army the following year.

Some Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt and elsewhere have condemned the violence. But the group has been controversial, with critics – including the US – saying some of its affiliates are violent or too conservative. Egypt’s military government They officially banned the Muslim Brotherhood In 2013, Jordan also blocked this group at the beginning of the year.

“President Trump is dealing with Transnational’s Transnakeonis’s Transnakeod’s network, which carries out a campaign of terrorism and platforms to fight against the interests of the US and the Middle East,” the White House said in a statement on Monday.

Mr. Trump’s order comes about a week after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott trust him The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization and banned from the ground. Abbott made a similar move at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Drawing a Case from a human rights group.

The President has exercised broad powers to designate groups as terrorist organizations.

His administration included several Latin American drug cartels as a foreign terrorist group earlier this year, and recently used the name Venezuela’s The Cartel de Los Solesas the administration is putting a lot of pressure on the Venezuelan government and President nicolás maduro. Some analysts say it is not a centralized cartel in the traditional sense, but instead a clearly defined network of government officials suspected of links to organized crime and drug trafficking.

The administration earlier this year also designated four European groups that it says are affiliated with antifa. Mr. Trump has designated antifa as a domestic terror organization, although there is no official system for naming such groups based on us, and antifa usually refers to a loose group of left-wing activists rather than a single organization with centralized leadership.

Mr Trump also considered labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group in his first term.