Explainer: Who is targeting the Muslim Brotherhood?

[TomSea]

Explainer: Who is targeting the Muslim Brotherhood?
Reuters

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, a move that would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements.

The Brotherhood, founded more than 90 years ago in Egypt, has survived repeated crackdowns at home and has a network of groups across the Middle East, some directly linked to the Egyptian organization and others more loosely affiliated.

The Brotherhood’s opponents, including several autocratic Arab states, say it is a dangerous terrorist group which must be crushed. The movement says it publicly renounced violence decades ago and pursues an Islamist vision using peaceful means.

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This is actually an informative article, despite the catcalls that will surely say, "Oh, those Muslim Brotherhood guys?"... note, it does sound like if one bans MB, more radical elements of Islam can fill the vacuum.

That Egyptian president and Pan-Arabist, Nasser certainly didn't like them.  Nor does Saudi royalty and other Gulf states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Muslim_Brotherhood_in_Egypt_(1954%E2%80%93present)

[Fishrrman]

"Who is targeting the Muslim Brotherhood?"

No one.
And that's the problem.
They should be "a target".
For... liquidation.