House Bill Targets Muslim Brotherhood For FULL TERROR DESIGNATION

House Considers Bill on Muslim Brotherhood Designating Entire Organization a Terrorist Group

The House is looking to go further than the Trump administration did in the president’s executive order.

Just over a week after the Trump administration announced moves to designate branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, the House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to discuss and vote on legislation that aims to classify the entire organization globally as a terrorist group on Wednesday.

Jewish Insider: The bipartisan House legislation, led by Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), would instruct the Department of State to assess whether each branch of the Muslim Brotherhood operating globally meets the requirements for designation as a terrorist group. It would then use those determinations to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group in its entirety. The legislation may go further than the current executive action on the issue, which does not specifically mandate assessments of each Muslim Brotherhood branch and does not directly aim to proscribe the entire Muslim Brotherhood.

The administration’s designation was celebrated, but criticized for the notable exclusions of Turkey and Qatar.

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