Congress must appoint the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

The terrorist terrorist appointment law was introduced last week by six Republican Senate members, in the House of Representatives by MP Mario Diaz-Plart (R-FLA) and MP Jared Mosquitz (D-Fla), and the joint chips of the Friends of Egypt, the Coast.

The draft law, which seeks to appoint the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, is introducing one modernization of the Cenator Ted Cruise (R-Texas) for the first time in 2015, repeated and repeated. This time, his colleagues in the Republican Senate Ashley Modi (R Florida), Tom Cuton (R Arc), John Bouzman (R-Ark), Rick Scott (R-FLA) and Dave McCormick (R-PA.).

McCromic, “Hamas terrorists … are proudly called” one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood “… which helped and incite some of the worst actors in the world for decades. In fact, the United States has considered Hamas a foreign terrorist organization since October 1997.

The results contained in the draft law include the statement that “the branches of the Muslim Brotherhood have sought to destabilize and undermine the allies and partners in the United States throughout the Middle East, including in Bahrain and Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and banned as a terrorist group by governments in those countries.”

In fact, the United States will not be the first nation to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. Under the rule of King Farok, the Egyptian government banned the Islamic Organization in 1948. When he ascended to power in 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser banned the brothers again after he confirmed that one of its members had tried to assassinate him.

Likewise, the Assad regime in Syria prohibited the Muslim Brotherhood in 1980, as it achieved the death penalty for membership. The new Syrian government, under the leadership of the former jihadist, Ahmed Al -Sharra, retained the ban and punishment for the death penalty for the membership of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Recently, the closest regional allies in America followed Syria. This includes Bahrain, the home of the fifth American fleet; The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of which host American military bases; And Egypt, the home of the third naval medical research unit, the largest biomedical research laboratory in the region.

In 2013, Egypt banned the Muslim Brotherhood, following the chaotic presidency of Muhammad Morsi’s rushing and the accession of President Abdel Fahia Al -Sisi. The following year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates banned. The last verb was after it claimed that its subsidiaries had tried to overthrow the government.

Recently, Jordan, which was home to the American military bases, appointed the Muslim Brotherhood as an illegal organization on April 23, believing that the Brotherhood was trying to overthrow the Hashemelite system starting in 2021. The government discovered the conspiracy two years later and arrested 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which led to the ban.

Critics of Cruz’s previous efforts to declare the Muslim Brotherhood have argued that a terrorist organization that his legislation would lead to the pushing of Islam terrorism in the United States that the argument is falling in light of the many Arab countries that have already banned the group.

It is true that many organizations that support legislation can be identified as an office of Israel, who actively oppose brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood fighters participated in the 1948 war against the emerging Jewish state, and its affiliated Hamas company is doing that day.

However, when Egypt and Syria banned the Muslim Brotherhood, they were bitter enemies of Israel. The Gulf countries that followed in 2014 had no relations with Israel at a time when the group banned. It is clear that their actions were driven by their concern for internal stability and the protection of the regime, rather than any special sympathy for Israel.

It is worth noting that Russia – barely friendly to the United States or in this regard Israel – has banned the Brotherhood. France, the severe critic of the Israeli operation in Gaza, imposed restrictions on the organization, which is largely lacked by the explicit ban.

Consequently, it is time for the White House to follow the leadership of its Arab allies and support the Congress initiative to appoint the Muslim Brotherhood as the terrorist organization. In fact, doing this will be consistent with the comprehensive policy of the Trump administration. Trump has no love for Hamas and more than anything else seeking to enhance stability in the Middle East, then to start rid the United States of that stormy region.

DOV S. Zakheim is a great advisor in Center for Strategic and International Studies And the deputy chairman Institute of Foreign Policy Research. He was the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense (observer) and the chief financial director of the Ministry of Defense from 2001 to 2004 and the deputy undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense from 1985 to 1987.