AS EVEN THE NYT ADMITS, THE CASE FOR DOING SO IS PRETTY STRONG: White House Weighs Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood.
President Barack Obama long resisted pressure to declare it a terrorist organization.
But the Brotherhood calls for a society governed by Islamic law, and some of its former members and offshoots — most notably Hamas, the Palestinian group whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel — have been tied to attacks. Some advisers to Mr. Trump have viewed the Brotherhood for years as a radical faction secretly infiltrating the United States to promote Shariah law. They see the order as an opportunity to finally take action against it. . . .
The proposal to declare it a terrorist organization has been paired with a plan to similarly designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to current and former officials briefed on the deliberations. Leaders of the corps and its Quds Force unit have already been put on a government terrorist list, but Republicans have advocated adding the corps itself to send a message to Iran.
Well, they’re both terrorist organizations, so calling them such isn’t much of a stretch.
Of course, the usual suspects object: “Among those objecting is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which describes itself as the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the United States.”
It describes itself that way, but how many members does it actually have? The story, as usual, doesn’t say. But last I heard their membership was minuscule. “For a group that only has 1,700 members, it has an inordinate amount of political clout.”