President Donald Trump, encouraged by the president of Egypt, has been pushing for the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Several Arab nations in the Middle East have designated the Brotherhood as a terrorist group because of the ideological succor it gives to extremists. But Muslims and leftists are pushing back against him, as are the so-called “American experts” on the Muslim Brotherhood, many of whom are being paid off by Qatar, current headquarters of the Brotherhood.

This enterprise has been met with the predicable calls for blind tolerance and multicultural etiquette so often urged upon us by the mainstream liberal media. It is crucially important in life to 1) know an enemy when one sees or hear them and 2) call them an enemy once one does.

A slightly more coherent (though not much more) case was put forward by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman in a recent New York Times piece which stated that due to the somewhat decentralized nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, it would be more difficult to categorize them as an organization as such.

However, they seem to stumble over their own argument by stating that “Several political parties in places like Tunisia and Jordan consider themselves Muslim Brotherhood or have ties to it but eschew violent extremism.”. It’s rather laughable that they’re effectively saying, “look at Tunisia and Jordan, they’re so non-violent, they’re barely part of the Brotherhood at all!”.

The latest update in President Trump’s crusade was following a visit by Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his subsequent urging to formally designate the Brotherhood as an FTO. This would make sense as there has been historic harassment of Egypt’s Coptic Christians by the Brotherhood.

This was more than alluded to in point 30 of Bill S.2230 — To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes . This was a bill that was put forward back in 2015 and sponsored by Republican Ted Cruz. It seems that authorities on the Right have not been reticent to recognize an enemy as such and to take action as needed.

There have been a number of Islamic sympathizers and apologists who have predictably said that Muslims are being unfairly targeted and that violence against Muslims are encouraged on the back of this proposed policy. The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding certainly seems to think so, though it is crucial to note that the ISPU is headquartered out of Dearborn, MI which has over 50% Muslim population

Incidentally, read the list of FTOs formally recognized by the Department of State and it will become immediately apparent that the vast majority of FTOs are Islamic in ideology and primarily Muslim in membership. Are all of these organizations also engaged in the unfair targeting of Muslims?

While it remains to be seen how Trump will handle his Muslim Brotherhood challenge, it seems any reader of this article is left with two possibilities:

1) Already knowing plenty of facts revealing the terrorist nature of Islam, would it be better to simply ignore them for the sake of multicultural etiquette?

2) Americans to reserve their right to challenge Islamic ideology and doctrine as well as its fundamental incompatibility with Western values.

Option 1 is not a contingency that I would recommend.

Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a researcher at the Virginia-based Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, said in a May 7, 2019 interview on Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) said that the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist designation would actually help moderate Muslims in America.

Here is the argument of the so-called ”

experts” on why the Muslim Brotherhood is NOT a terrorist organization.