White House officials are weighing whether to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization — a move experts warn would make the US less safe and end up victimizing American Muslims.
White House officials are weighing whether to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization — a move experts warn would make the United States less safe and end up victimizing American Muslims to curry favor with authoritarian allies.on Tuesday reported that the administration was pushing to do this after Donald Trump met with Egyptian strongman Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
The designation would also allow American authorities to “go after” Muslim organizations in the U.S., said Michele Dunne, a senior fellow and the director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It has been one of the good arguments that the United States made that we’re only against terrorism ... we’re not against Islam,” Dunne said. “If this designation is passed and if it is at all implemented, that is going to put Muslims in the United States under a great deal of pressure.”
While it doesn’t make sense from a terror-fighting perspective, the designation would see the U.S. doing the dirty work for foreign autocrats, said Ned Price, a former CIA officer and former National Security Council official. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt are also fighting to counter the influence of rivals Turkey and Qatar in the region, which are financing and offering safe havens for the movement’s leaders.
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