NOT to belabor the obvious, nor to over-toot this horn, a paltry few in the leadership of the heretofore free world took decades to admit: the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MAFIA is a bonafide TERROR front! As is often stated: welcome to the bandwagon, yes, better late than never – tragically, it is only after carnage upon bloody carnage continuously litters America’s streets!
INDEED, little is ever as it seems. Akin to Israel (throughout the Mid-East, etc.), mega baksheesh greases influential palms – and this is precisely where both sides of the political aisle in the U.S. have utterly failed to protect national security.
STILL yet, prior to heading to the ins and outs of the long overdue admission, it is beyond imperative to utilize the correct designation/verbiage: MAFIA; RICO-LIKE.
AS is known within all spheres of influence, most especially, within legal and political circles, organizations that operate as hydras – one atop another, akin to MAFIOSO Crime Families – must be charged under the legal umbrella laid out within the RICO framework. Been there, done that.
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) of 1970 seeks to strengthen the legal tools in evidence gathering by establishing new penal prohibitions and providing enhanced sanctions and new remedies for dealing with the unlawful activities of those engaged in organized crime.
The power of RICO lies in its conspiracy provision, based on an enterprise rationale, that allows tying together apparently unrelated crimes with a common objective into a prosecutable pattern of racketeering. In addition, RICO provides for severer penalties and permits a defendant to be convicted and separately punished for both the underlying crimes that constitute the pattern of racketeering activity and for a substantive violation of RICO…..
ATOP the above truth-telling (back in the beginning of 2010), this BROTHERHOOD expert was the designated speaker re the fiery subject matter – at a week-long security/counter-terrorism conference, in Jerusalem. Top experts from the U.S. (with Texas via its legendary Stetson hat-wearing Rangers Division in the lead, and Oklahoma LEO in the fray) and within Israeli security/counter-terrorism circles gathered to forge unbreakable connections, and to exchange what is coined:“Intel and Best Practices.” Alongside this high-powered crew, the esteemed Caroline Glick was the designated MC – as she introduced the “closed-door” programming, and laid out wherein its urgent basis was derived from. If anything, since 2010, the cancerous/metastasizing threat-levels (in the U.S. and Israel….leaving aside Europe) have grown exponentially. Enough said.
BACK to the here and now, that is, as per the “out-of-the-blue”/long overdue plan [emphasis placed] to designate the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MAFIA as a terror organization! As always, time will tell. It is best not to count one’s chickens before they hatch, in a manner of speaking.
The Muslim Brotherhood is arguably the most influential Islamist organization in history. Its reach spans the globe and includes elements of both violent and civilizational jihad. All of their efforts are in service of Islamist supremacy, as the words of founder Hassan Al Banna make clear: “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
The Muslim Brotherhood is “the world’s incubator of modern Islamic terrorism” and “the world’s most dangerous militant cult.”
The Muslim Brotherhood has spawned numerous regional offshoots, some legal and others not, and also gave birth to more extreme groups, up to and including Al Qaeda. While the State Department has designated Muslim Brotherhood offshoots, including Hamas and Liwa al-Thawra, to be Foreign Terrorist Organizations, successive U.S. administrations have refused to designate the entirety of the group and some secretaries, like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, even sought to cultivate the group. Former State Department Middle East specialist Michele Dunne explained the logic in a 2019 essay: “By joining countries (for example, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E.) that designate groups as terrorist for political reasons, the United States would tarnish the international legitimacy of its other designations and erode the credibility of its counterterrorism efforts.”
Former State Department advisor William McCants and legal blogger Benjamin Wittes, at the time both Brookings Institution scholars, opposed designation both on technical grounds, arguing it would be procedurally illegal, and also on the Muslim Brotherhood’s diffuse, amorphous structure. “The Brotherhood is not in a meaningful sense a single organization at all; elements of it can be designated and have been designated, and other elements certainly cannot be. As a whole, it is simply too diffuse and diverse to characterize,” they argued. But, by that logic, Al Qaeda would not be a terrorist group. Neither McCants nor Wittes disclosed that their home institution had received tens of millions of dollars from Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood-supporting country.
When the ideology promotes terror, however, failure to act reflects inconsistency, if not a blind spot. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spawned numerous terrorist offshoots—Hezbollah, Ansar Allah (the Houthis), Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Initially, diplomats opposed designating the Revolutionary Guards, arguing that only a portion of the group—the Qods Force, for example—engaged in terror. The reality, however, is that those groups not directly engaged in military action support it, either through recruitment, funding, or publicizing. The same dynamics are at play with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Not only has the U.S. government designated each affiliate, but it has also designated the entirety of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah, and Hamas, effectively acknowledging that the tentacles of the octopus do not operate independently.
Yet, when it comes to the Muslim Brotherhood, too many terror-cheering, if not supporting, affiliates have historically received a free pass in both the United States and Europe. This is short-sighted. If non-terrorist groups associated with the Brotherhood do not want to be smeared with that brush, they can disassociate.
The Muslim Brotherhood represents a danger to the civilized world and designating it a Foreign Terrorist Organization will help curb its influence.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) now seeks to change U.S. inaction on the Brotherhood. Cruz reportedly will introduce a bill soon to force designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Such action will save U.S. lives and also help counter the influence of those lobbying on behalf of Qatar and Turkey, whose president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is both a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of its chief supporters.
The Muslim Brotherhood represents a danger to the civilized world and designating it a Foreign Terrorist Organization will help curb its influence. An indication that this is a correct move can be seen in the actions of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Jordan. These countries all know the Brotherhood well; each has designated the Brotherhood as a terror group. While Dunne argued that designating the Brotherhood as terrorists could undermine U.S. diplomacy in the Arab world, the opposite is actually true. By demonstrating to U.S. allies that Washington understands their security needs and concerns, designation can enhance diplomatic relations and partnerships.
AND not to place a too fine point on the widespread dangers via the encircling tentacles of the SUNNI BROTHERHOOD MAFIA, Turkey, finally, is hitting the spotlight for the Jihadi nexus that it is – long after this writer recognized its deadly thrust. Wait and see.
Turkey’s State Broadcaster TRT May Have Violated U.S. Foreign Agent Law
BY internalizing the above – recognizing that every single root and branch of Sunni Jihadi terror organs are part and parcel of the MB MAFIA – the smoke will clear. In fact, aside from several others, TURKEY is a highly dangerous forerunner; duly recognized in 2016 via the bullet-proofs evidenced within the following analysis – one which gained the constant attention (and not the welcoming kind) of various mobbed-up henchmen ala ERDOGAN!
Turkey’s Erdogan, Brotherhood Mafia “Made Man”, In (Coup) Cross Hairs: What’s Going On?
MOREOVER, another stepped-up lynchpin, that is, as per why all of the above must be deemed a decades-long matter of national emergency.
BUT for the absolute DIRECT nexus between FACEBOOK (a/k/a META, or what not) and the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MAFIA, “BANNED: How Facebook Enables Militant Islamic Jihad” (started in 2014, published in Aug. 2016) would never have been conceived. Written.
AS to its targeted thrust within the Islamic Jihadi arena, several esteemed scholars in the field of Security Studies/Strategies, among them Dr. Martin Sherman, penned reviews. Not for nothing.
Imminent and Ominous: The Facebook-Jihadi Nexus (REVIEW)
MIND you, an avalanche
