The Trump administration is apparently nearing a formal designation of the international Muslim Brotherhood, which is the ideological progenitor of modern radical Sunni Islamism throughout the world, as a terrorist group. The Brotherhood operates all around the globe. But while the Palestinian-Arab branch of the Brotherhood, the genocidal sharia supremacist death cult of Hamas, is perhaps the best known Brotherhood franchise, Brotherhood affiliates throughout the world are based on the same underlying toxic creed. The Brotherhood operates as the mother’s milk of Sunni Islamism — indeed, of Sunni jihadism — and serves as a prerequisite and proverbial “gateway drug” for more universally recognized extremist groups such as al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and Jamaat-e-Islami. Indeed, the Counter Extremism Project describes the Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State as “shar[ing] more than deep ideological underpinnings,” and further notes that the groups’ “similarities far outweigh their differences.” Consider this fabulous 2016 essay in the Claremont Review of Books from David Reaboi of the Security Studies Group and Kyle Shideler of The Counter-Islamist Grid: Since 1928, when it was founded by Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian, the Brotherhood has kept terrorist violence — or the threat of such violence — within its doctrinal toolkit, maintaining close ties to other sympathetic terror groups. As the 9/11 Commission reported, the Brotherhood’s comfortable association with violent jihadist terror stretches from establishing clandestine “Special Apparatus” terror cells in the 1930s — which are still active — to the deep influence of Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb upon al-Qaeda. The Brotherhood also constitutes the ideological wellspring for nearly every current jihadist organization. As al-Qaradawi notes in “Islamic Education and Hassan al-Banna,” it was the Muslim Brotherhood that invigorated and promoted a view of Jihad that had lain dormant. “The movement of Ikhwanul Muslimo... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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