[YALIBNAN] Three U.S. politicians, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) who was a presidential candidate, have proposed a measure calling for the Moslem Brüderbund to be designated a foreign terrorist organization."Proud to introduce Moslem Brüderbund Terrorist Designation Act," Cruz tweeted this week.
Cruz is optimistic that the Moslem Brüderbund Terrorist Designation Act -introduced this week in both chambers of Congress ‐ will get signed into law given that Republican U.S. President-elect 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...
will reach the White House at the end of Democrat President Barak Obama’s tenure.
Given that a bill would go through several stages before its adoption, Trump will likely be the one signing it.
Republicans have the majority in the House and Senate and consequently control the leadership of the most important Congressional committees. This would facilitate the adoption of the bill.
From Huffington Post:
American Muslim advocates contend that the real intent of Cruz’s bill has little to do with foreign policy.
Naturally. What could a designation of an international Islamist organization dedicated to imposing its brand of authoritarianism on the rest of the world have to do with foreign policy?
Rather, they argue, the legislation would enable the U.S. government to target domestic Muslim groups that Cruz and others earnestly believe are part of a massive, covert conspiracy to destroy the U.S. from within.
But if the domestic groups are actually a part of an international movement inimical to American interests, why shouldn't they be targeted? Designation of al-Qaeda as a terrorist group led to domestic Qaeda wannabes being targeted. Why should supporters of Hamas or Jaish al-Islam or Libya Dawn be any different?
A 2001 executive order issued by President George W. Bush gave the State and Treasury departments broad powers to investigate organizations that the government alleges have provided material support to, or are “otherwise associated with,” a designated terror group. Those being investigated can have their funds frozen and be subject to warrantless searches and asset seizures. The investigations can drag on for years, effectively shutting down the organization.
And CAIR is somehow afraid that will happen to them.
A 2009 American Civil Liberties Union review of Muslim charities in the crosshairs found that Bush’s executive order “effectively allows the government to shut down an organization without notice or hearing and on the basis of classified evidence, and without any judicial review.”
Now Cruz’s legislation looks like another step along that road.
“The bill is about domestic control of Muslims,” Corey Saylor, director of the department to monitor and combat Islamophobia at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told The Huffington Post. “It has everything to do with a widely debunked conspiracy theory that Muslim organizations are nefarious.”
Somehow we knew they'd be unhappy with it.
“Let me be extremely clear,” J.M. Berger, a counterterrorism analyst at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told BuzzFeed last fall,
... and if you can't trust Buzzfeed who can you trust?
speaking of the broader idea of a terrorist designation for the Muslim Brotherhood. “This initiative is concerned with controlling American Muslims, not with any issue pertaining to the Muslim Brotherhood in any practical or realistic sense.”