Calls mount for Trump administration to label Muslim Brotherhood 'terrorist organization'

[Right_in_Virginia]

Calls mount for Trump administration to label Muslim Brotherhood 'terrorist organization'
Fox News, Feb 3, 2017,  Maxim Lott

The Trump administration could soon declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, a move that would greatly restrict the controversial group’s global reach and would come despite its insistence that it has peaceful intentions.

Trump himself was often critical of President Obama’s outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has proposed a bill to call for declaring the Brotherhood a terror organization. In the past, it has been accused of supporting terrorist groups around the world, and several countries, including Muslim nations, have banned them.

If the U.S. declares the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, it would make it a criminal act for Americans to fund the group, ban banks from processing money for it, bar people with ties to the group from coming to the United States and make it easier to deport immigrants who have worked with the organization.

“It is time to call this enemy by its name and speak with clarity and moral authority,” Cruz said in a statement introducing the bill.


More:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/03/calls-mount-for-trump-administration-to-label-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-organization.html

[Norm Lenhart]

That one act would do wonders for increasing my trust level in Trump going forward. If he does do that, he's not playing around and there will be an immediate shitstorm.

Which I'm fine with. It's a storm long overdue.

[flowers]

The first few weeks of obama regime he took MB or CAIR off terror list. Hope President Trump does this.  @Right_in_Virginia

[libertybele]

Cruz once again getting it right!

[endicom]

In coordination with the Egytian government, I hope.

[Norm Lenhart]

In coordination with the Egytian government, I hope.

With EVERY government, I hope. The EU is likely to have the UN go spaz mode though.

[endicom]

With EVERY government, I hope. The EU is likely to have the UN go spaz mode though.

My thought is that al-Sisi needs the sort of support he didn't get from the last administration. Oppose the Brotherhood but in a way that helps rather than hurts al-Sisi.

[Smokin Joe]

How many in our government are affiliated with the MB? IIRC, DHS and other agencies were lousy with them, and Hillary's galpal's parents were tied in with it, too.

[Mesaclone]

How many in our government are affiliated with the MB? IIRC, DHS and other agencies were lousy with them, and Hillary's galpal's parents were tied in with it, too.

Affiliated with it?

I work in DHS, and I can assure that is entirely untrue. Please explain what you are saying here?

[mountaineer]

The first few weeks of obama regime he took MB or CAIR off terror list.

Yeah, so Val Jarrett and Huma Abedin still could have access to the highest levels of government - and government secrets. 

[Smokin Joe]

Affiliated with it?

I work in DHS, and I can assure that is entirely untrue. Please explain what you are saying here?

Sorry, he's gone: http://shoebat.com/2014/09/10/muslim-brotherhood-infiltrator-dhs-called-caliphate-leaves-dhs-one-day-sotloff-beheaded-isis-caliphate/
Need I spell out state department connections to the MB in the recent past?

[Mesaclone]

Sorry, he's gone: http://shoebat.com/2014/09/10/muslim-brotherhood-infiltrator-dhs-called-caliphate-leaves-dhs-one-day-sotloff-beheaded-isis-caliphate/
Need I spell out state department connections to the MB in the recent past?

You mentioned Homeland Security....which has no connection with State. So what I was asking was for you to explain why you are asserting their are people in Homeland connected to the MB?

[Chosen Daughter]

Are we going to put Egypt on travel ban?

[Smokin Joe]

You mentioned Homeland Security....which has no connection with State. So what I was asking was for you to explain why you are asserting their are people in Homeland connected to the MB?

I made a misstatement. My apologies. You work in the one untainted Federal Agency.

[Mesaclone]

I made a misstatement. My apologies. You work in the one untainted Federal Agency.

Well, there's no agency that is untainted. I'm just saying that the rot...the bottom of the swamp...rests primarily in DC, not out in the field. I'm excited that General Kelly is taking the reins, and hopeful that he will start sweeping out the bureaucrats and Obamaphiles that are too prevalent in our HQ. No need for you to apologize, though its much appreciated, I was just trying to move you towards highlighting the epicenter of a problem we all want to see fixed.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, there's no agency that is untainted. I'm just saying that the rot...the bottom of the swamp...rests primarily in DC, not out in the field. I'm excited that General Kelly is taking the reins, and hopeful that he will start sweeping out the bureaucrats and Obamaphiles that are too prevalent in our HQ. No need for you to apologize, though its much appreciated, I was just trying to move you towards highlighting the epicenter of a problem we all want to see fixed.

Anyone here who just realized DC is the epicenter of the problem just hasn't been paying attention. My reference was intended to point to the rot at the top in the previous administration and disseminated through the upper ranks of the bureaucracy. Most all of the field hands are trying to accomplish their mission.

The willingness to take stupid risks with any problem is directly proportional to the distance from the problem. The guys in the trenches do the heavy lifting, the ones in the office take the credit. You see that just about anywhere.