The Muslim Brotherhood should have been declared terrorist
organization decades ago. Thanks to a hearing at the Subcommittee on National
Security of the House oversight committee chaired by Ron DeSantis, the
terrorist designation seems closer than ever.
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DeSantis Hearing Establishes the Muslim Brotherhood Must
Be Designated as a Terrorist Organization – the Sooner, the Better
Press Release Contact: Deborah Hamilton
Sent 7/11/2018 6:25 PM
Sent From: Center for Security Policy
WASHINGTON,
D.C.— It is no longer a question of whether the United States will
designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. It is
only a matter of when and how.
That’s the principal take-away from a congressional national
security panel this morning that addressed “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Global
Threat” and what the US should do about it.
“This hearing is an opportunity to discuss what the
United States’ next step should be in combatting the Muslim Brotherhood’s
threat,” said Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL), chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security of the House oversight
committee.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a militant Islamist organization
with affiliates in over 70 countries,” DeSantis said. “There’s no question that
the Muslim Brotherhood’s affiliates are involved in terrorism.”
The historic hearing follows a June 28 Center for Security Policy Decision Brief that
called on the Trump Administration to declare the entire Muslim Brotherhood and
its fronts and affiliates as terrorist organizations.
“Thankfully the Trump Administration has discarded the
Obama-era policy of treating the Brotherhood as a potential ally,” DeSantis
said. “Now, the questions are focused on how expansive to make the terror
designation, and whether it should be done through the State Department or
Treasury Department.”
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American
Islamic Forum for Democracy and a longtime associate of the
Center for Security Policy, was one of the four witnesses who testified. He
was the only Muslim witness, and made the case powerfully for Center-recommended
policy of designating the entire Muslim Brotherhood and its fronts as terrorist
entities.
In the course of his testimony, Dr.
Jasser rebutted characterizations by the Brotherhood’s
apologists and enablers of its critics as “haters” and “Islamophobes”:
Nothing would be more pro-Muslim than the marginalization of
the Muslim Brotherhood and its direct affiliates. Making the Muslim Brotherhood
radioactive would allow the light to shine upon their most potent antagonists
in Muslim communities – those who reject political Islam and believe in liberty
and the separation of mosque and state.
He also discussed national security risks associated with
failing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates as terrorist
entities. One of them is censorship of jihadist terminology in U.S. government
agencies. Dr. Jasser correctly observed that such censorship impedes analysts’
ability to protect the nation:
To think that these words and concepts, and others are off
limits in the freest nation on earth, censored [in] our agencies, is just
incredulous considering the growing threat we face today from violent
Islamism. It smacks of a bizarre invocation of blasphemy laws in America.
It is groups like the Muslim Brotherhood that have benefited from our refusal
to discuss these elements of Islam and Islamism.
The three other witnesses – Hillel Fradkin of the Hudson
Institute, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and
Daniel Benjamin of the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution – agreed to varying
degrees that the Muslim Brotherhood constitutes a threat. They
recommended, however, more narrow terrorist designations of specific Muslim
Brotherhood entities.
Chairman DeSantis observed: “It is clear that the
Brotherhood constitutes a real threat to the national security interests of the
United States. We can debate the best way to counter this threat, but
simply ignoring the threat is not an acceptable answer.”
The Center for Security Policy has submitted a statement
for the hearing record endorsing Rep. DeSantis’ assessment and
laying out the factual basis for designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a
terrorist organization.
Center President Frank J. Gaffney urged legislators,
executive branch officials, the media and the public at large to examine
particularly compelling evidence of the threat the Brotherhood poses: Its
1991 Explanatory
Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal of the Group in North America–
a secret plan for “destroying Western civilization from within” written by a
top Muslim Brotherhood operative, Mohammed Akram, and introduced by the federal
government into evidence in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation et.al. v.
United States terrorism financing trial.
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Designate the Entire Terrorist Muslim Brotherhood Now
By Frank Gaffney – Secure
Freedom Minute
July 12, 2018
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Congratulations to Rep. Ron DeSantis and others who took on
the Muslim Brotherhood yesterday in a hearing on Capitol Hill. They
established that it’s a foreign terrorist organization and will be officially
designated as such by the U.S. government. The only question is how soon
and how comprehensively.
Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser testified that in 2011 then-FBI
Director Robert Mueller told Congress that “elements of the Muslim Brotherhood
both here and overseas have supported terrorism.” Dr. Jasser added, “Nothing
would be more pro-Muslim than the marginalization of the Muslim Brotherhood and
its direct affiliates.”
That’s because the Brotherhood seeks to impose its seditious
Sharia-supremacist doctrine on pro-American Muslims as it works – according to
the group’s secret
plan – to use stealthy “civilization jihad” to “destroy
Western civilization from within.”
They must be stopped. Start by designating the entire Muslim
Brotherhood now.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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VIDEO: The
Muslim Brotherhood’s Global Threat [Feed actually Begins at the 9:30
mark]
Posted by oversightandreform
Streamed live on Jul 11, 2018
Learn more at https://oversight.house.gov/
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DeSantis Hearing
Establishes the Muslim Brotherhood Must Be Designated as a Terrorist
Organization – the Sooner, the Better
AND
Designate the Entire
Terrorist Muslim Brotherhood Now
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