Trump Bans Some Chapters of Muslim Brotherhood, Leaves Out Turkey & Qatar

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President Trump’s executive order sets in motion a process by which certain chapters or other subdivisions of the Muslim Brotherhood shall be considered for designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has developed into a transnational network with chapters across the Middle East and beyond.  Relevant here, its chapters in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt engage in or facilitate and support violence and destabilization campaigns that harm their own regions, United States citizens, and United States interests.

The presidential order signed by President Trump focuses on the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. There aren’t any references to the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Turkey and Qatar, where the Brotherhood are  part of the government in those countries. Qatar’s royal family and President Erdogan are Muslim Brotherhood.

It’s a tricky situation.

According to the NY Post:

Qatar has allegedly pumped more than $20 billion into American colleges and other top institutions as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s decades-long plan to infiltrate the US and “destroy” democracy from within, a leading research institute warns — while adding that the nefarious funding could be staggeringly higher.

The Qatar Foundation, which is bankrolled by the country’s ruling Al Thani royal family, has apparently been injecting tens of billions of dollars into institutions to help the Sunni Islamist group carve out toeholds in the educational system, according to a new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).

“The royal family of Qatar has a Bay’ah — a spiritual oath — to the Muslim Brotherhood, so they’re pumping in many, many billions of dollars into our universities, K-12 schools and cultural institutions, using influence and soft power to promote its ideology,” Dr. Charles Asher Small, executive director of ISGAP, claimed in an interview with The Post.

Reportedly, President Trump is trying to pull Qatar away from the Brotherhood, but that seems to be a pipe dream.

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Popeye
Popeye
20 days ago

Trump loves money.

Anonymous
Anonymous
20 days ago
Reply to  Popeye

He’s his own worst enemy when it comes to letting money influence his decision making. Sooner or later we’re going to end up having to undue some of trumps foreign entanglements that he has haphazardly gotten us into, and nothing of any good will come of it. Did trump get we the people trapped into undoing problematic financial foreign policy?… Read more »

Popeye
Popeye
20 days ago

“It should have happened the day after 9/11. But it didn’t.
Because every President was ignorant or anti-American” . . ?
Because they bowed to the globalist pigs, that’s why.

Anonymous
Anonymous
21 days ago

You cannot convince me that trump cannot be bribed. I’ve seen him give one to many people the red carpet treatment for throwing money at him. Ttime and time again. His exact words were in one scenario were, I don’t care what they’ve done, I’m not going to refuse the money. Mark my words it’s going to come back to… Read more »

Last edited 21 days ago by Anonymous
John Vieira
John Vieira
20 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Maybe DJ should take a refresher course…the world IS full of snakes…some may be closer to him than he thinks…

Captain Tripps
Captain Tripps
20 days ago
Reply to  Anonymous

The Deep State is alive and well with Deep Snake Trump in D.C.

Had I or anyone said last week Trump would make exceptions we would have been F-bomded. But here it is.

At least Forest Trump is consistent. He never fails to disappoint.

Anonymous
Anonymous
20 days ago
Reply to  M Dowling

He is for sure the lesser problematic of the two, but does not give him a ticket to ride without being called out for his problematic, to say the least, policy making concerning foreign financial entanglements. He’s got one foot on one side of the doorway and one the other. Solving one problem while creating another that’s even more problematic.… Read more »

Anonymous
Anonymous
20 days ago
Reply to  M Dowling

I don’t think not saying anything helps anyone at all, people are becoming increasingly pissed off everywhere, on the right and the left, and when people are pissed off he usually tends to change his directives. People think that it’s the politicians who they put in office are what will change direction, but in actuality it’s the opposite. It is… Read more »