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Trump administration debates designating Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group
2017-01-27
Yes, please.
[REUTERS] A debate is under way in the Trump administration about whether the United States should declare the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization and subject it to U.S. sanctions, according to U.S. officials and people close to President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's transition team.

A faction led by Michael Flynn, Trump's National Security Advisor, wants to add the Brotherhood to the State Department and U.S. Treasury lists of foreign terrorist organizations, the sources said.

"I know it has been discussed. I'm in favor of it," said a Trump transition advisor, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The advisor said Flynn's team discussed adding the group to the U.S. list of terrorist groups but said it was ultimately unclear when or even if the administration ultimately would go ahead with such a move.

Other Trump advisors, as well as many veteran national security, diplomatic, law enforcement and intelligence officials argue the Brotherhood has evolved peacefully in some countries, according to officials and people close to Trump's entourage.

They worry that a U.S. move to designate the entire Brotherhood a terrorist group would complicate relations with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, a key American ally in the fight against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, and where the Islamist-rooted AKP Party that dominates the Turkish government of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
is in power. Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda Party has also participated in democratic elections.

The Moslem Brüderbund in Egypt, the country's oldest Islamist movement, was designated as a terrorist organization in that country in 2013.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Patrick Poole posted and excellent breakdown of the For argument a few days ago, highlighting the MB efforts to support terrorism after they supposedly renounced it. Designate them, then grind them into dust
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-01-27 17:43  

#5  They're peaceful until the get power and then they start killing Christians.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-01-27 12:40  

#4  YES PLEASE YES PLEASE

THEN MAKE AUSTRALIA DO IT TOO

THEN HOPEFULLY ASIO WILL MOVE AGAINST THE MUSLIM BRODERBUNDS INFILTRATING HERE

wal.eed aly, han.an dover, lyd.ia shelley, key.sar trad, all of afic and all its member groups, all of islamic council of victoria, all the halal certifiers... round them all up
Posted by: anon1   2017-01-27 05:40  

#3  I've never seen him so indecisive before.
Posted by: gorb   2017-01-27 03:21  

#2   If they have to think about this...
Posted by: Phaper Crugum8267   2017-01-27 03:06  

#1  Do it. You have the momentum, don't cloud the message by pausing to reflect and listen to the wrong voices...
Posted by: Crusader   2017-01-27 00:57  

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