Congress Moves to Label Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group

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If this goes through, it could have impact on one of the foremost Muslim Brotherhood entities in the U.S.: Hamas-CAIR. According to an internal document entered into evidence in the largest terrorist funding trial in our nation’s history, Hamas-tied CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood entity, working toward “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house….”

Many of Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR’s leadership have been convicted of jihad-related crimes. They attack and dismantle America’s greatest freedoms through litigation jihad. They smear and destroy the voices of freedom via their well-paid hacks in the media. Over the past decades they have expended hundreds of millions of dollars to buy media and elected officials.

Some of the evidence indicting CAIR:

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IPT: … [in] the trial for the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) ..the mountain of evidence presented by prosecutors demonstrates, in detail, the existence of a grand Muslim Brotherhood network in the United States dating back to the 1960s. A segment of this network, the self-designated “Palestine Committee,” sought to financially, politically, and morally support the efforts of HAMAS to destroy the “Zionist enemy.”

One exhibit – the Palestine Committee’s 1991 bylaws – reveals a web of key organizations tied to the Committee that were tasked with promoting HAMAS’ agenda, each in a particular field. Six groups were listed, the most prominent being HLF, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), and the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR).

It is a committee which operates through the Association [IAP] for now. It is hoped that it will become an official organization for political work and its headquarters will be in Washington, Allah willing. It represents the political aspect to support the cause politically on the American front.

An organization headquartered in Washington, DC, tasked with political activism, born out of the IAP? […]

Fast forward to July 30, 1994, just weeks after the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was founded. A Palestine Committee meeting agenda lists several issues to be discussed, including a review of the reports of the “working organizations.” Listed among these organizations right beside HLF, IAP, and UASR – all members of the Palestine Committee as listed in the bylaws – is the word “CAIR.”

As a result of that trial, it was understood that these groups were be indicted and prosecuted as well. But …. Obama was elected, and Eric Holder and his DoJ scuttled those prosecutions. Eric Holder refused to answer a Congressional inquiry about evidence in scuttled prosecutions of jihadist groups, CAIR, ISNA, ICNA in America’s largest terrorism financing trial. Nonetheless, the Department of Justice is sitting on “a mountain of evidence” against these subversive jihad groups.

Maybe the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror organization will get that prosecution moving again — if an American President is elected in 2016.

But will the Muslim Brotherhood’s friend in the White House move to stop this designation?

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“Congress Moves to Label Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 3, 2015 (thanks to Todd):

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress filed legislation on Tuesday that would formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood a sanctioned terrorist organization, according to an advance copy of the legislation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The legislation outlines the Brotherhood’s long history of sponsoring terrorism and outlines congressional support for it to be designated a global terrorist outfit. The bill also would force Secretary of State John Kerry to explain why the Obama administration has been hesitant to label the Brotherhood a terrorist group.

The Brotherhood’s political wing has been banned in Egypt, where affiliates of the organization overthrew the government and then violently cracked down on its opposition, the United States has avoided labeling the organization a sponsor of terrorism.

Should the State Department refuse to move forward with the designation, the bill would require it to provide a justification for this policy, according to the bill.

Multiple House lawmakers spearheaded a similar effort last year, but the bill failed to become law.

This time around, Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is heading the legislation in the Senate, while Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R., Fla.) is handling the House version of the bill, sources said.

“We have to stop pretending that the Brotherhood are not responsible for the terrorism they advocate and finance,” Cruz told the Free Beacon. “We have to see it for what it is: a key international organization dedicated to waging violent jihad.  Since the Obama administration refuses to utter the words’”radical Islamic terrorism,’ and Congress owes it to the American people to tell them the truth about this threat.”

The bill also helps combat the notion that Brotherhood is a peaceful political group, Cruz said.

“This bill puts the lie to the notion that the Muslim Brotherhood is a peaceful political organization that can be a legitimate partner for America,” the lawmaker said. “In 2008 the Justice Department successfully prosecuted the largest terrorism-financing trial in American history arguing that the Muslim Brotherhood directed U.S. affiliates such as the Holy Land Foundation to provide ‘media, money and men’ to Hamas. That support was used for terrorist attacks against Americans and our allies in the Middle East.  When they are capable they will try to do the same thing here.”

The bill, which includes a lengthy history of the Brotherhood’s links to radical terrorist leaders and violent incidents, concludes that “the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization.”

It would require the State Department and other agencies to determine whether the Brotherhood officially meets the requirements to be designated under U.S. law as a terrorist organization.

However, “if the Secretary of State determines that the Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the criteria,” it must submit to Congress “a detailed justification as to which criteria have not been met,” according to the bill.

Muslim Brotherhood affiliates as well as the group’s members have been listed as sponsors of terrorism in the past by the U.S. government.

The terrorist group Hamas, a longtime Brotherhood affiliate, has been sanctioned for some time.

The organization garnered international headlines after its rise to power following a coup in Egypt that took down its longtime former leader. While in power, the Brotherhood cracked down on opponents and waged violent campaigns against Christians and others who opposed the group’s radical ideology.

Five countries—Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Russia—already consider the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

Israel, Canada, and the United Kingdom are examining the possibility of designating it a terrorist organization as well.

Lawmakers such as Cruz maintain that the Brotherhood poses a direct threat to U.S. national security, though the Obama administration has held meetings with the organization’s representatives.

A senior member of the Brotherhood was hosted at the White House last year, while other representatives of the group have been granted entrance to the United States.

Senior U.S. officials have warned in the past that the Brotherhood both in the United States and overseas have backed terrorist acts.

“I can say at the outset that elements of the Muslim Brotherhood both here and overseas have supported terrorism,” said Robert Mueller, the former director of the FBI, during testimony in 2011.

Intelligence officials have established that elements of the Brotherhood run terrorist financing operations in the United States. Much of this information, however, remains classified.

Other officials have explained that terror groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al Qaeda can all trace their roots back to the Muslim Brotherhood and its leaders.

Cruz has also led congressional efforts to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps an official state sponsor of terrorism.

That bill, submitted at the end of September, would likely mitigate the impact of sanctions relief provided to Iran under the recently inked nuclear deal.

“Branches of the [Revolutionary Guard Corps] have murdered hundreds of Americans,” Cruz said in a statement at the time. “They have attacked our allies, notably Israel. They have provided material support for other designated terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Yet for years the United States has sanctioned [Revolutionary Guard Corps] entities while leaving the organization itself untouched.”

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SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
8 years ago

Go the next step. CAIR is a front group for the muslim brotherhood and therefore also a terrorist group that needs to be shut down. Get CAIRs membership list and investigate each member.

my quotes
my quotes
8 years ago

Eh she’s Jewish so she has an agenda against Muslims…. if she was some random American with no religious ties… it’d mean something but she’s just an annoying little ****

John Magne Trane
John Magne Trane
8 years ago
Reply to  my quotes

You mean, you Moslems have an agenda against the Jews. And the Christians. And Everybody else.

What an interesting guy you are…
“my quotes 3 months ago

Ok as a Muslim im willing to admit that Isis is somewhat Islamic.”

And then:
“my quotes Guitarzan a day ago

Rape, domestic abuse, murder and pedophila are common things that occur in the world…. so hush up ok? Don’t blame it all on Islam and a cult? Wow it’s pretty huge…. and for fucks sake I’m not a Muslim…”

SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
8 years ago

Please provide links to the contradictory quotes. Thanks!

Dravaa
Dravaa
8 years ago

a bigot and a liar … figures

SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
8 years ago
Reply to  my quotes

She’s Jewish? Like Obama is Muslim?

Dravaa
Dravaa
8 years ago
Reply to  my quotes

eh truth is truth, no matter who’s speaking it
unless you’re prejudiced against ****
stars?

Peter Hyatt
Peter Hyatt
8 years ago

What did Angela Merkel really tell the Muslim males?

http://analysistomorrow.blogspot.com/2015/11/germanys-message-to-muslim-male.html

Charles Martel
Charles Martel
8 years ago

We should all support Dr. Carson’s initiative to demand the IRS revokes HAMAS/CAIR tax-exempt status due to its involvement and interference in American politics. Should be a first step before sending all to jail for treason.

Lia
Lia
8 years ago
Reply to  Charles Martel

Not to jail in the USA: a jail somewhere in the ME.

Cate
Cate
8 years ago

Go get ’em, Ted!!

LEOOHKIYVT
LEOOHKIYVT
8 years ago

Get rid of Cair, it belongs in the Middle east. Amazing, all these terrorist and whiners can manage to team up to try and ruin other people when really all of that effort could be used to improve their own land and lifestyles. But that stupid Koran stands in their way of progress as human beings, The one thing that is killing them more than anything on earth? That is the one thing they’ll refuse consider as maybe not being all it’s cracked up to be.

Eric Brian
Eric Brian
8 years ago
Reply to  LEOOHKIYVT

CAIR belongs nowhere, just like Islam.
Islam is The Beast (of the land), & its Bismillah is The Mark Of The Beast, in the Bible Book of Revelation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXdFjuAJ-w
Never give in. Never surrender. Never submit. Never convert. Never say die.
Ban Islam in the free world & eradicate it everywhere! “Religion of peace,” my arse; it’s the religion of piece(s), one body (part) at a time. See the daily running count http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
The truth about the world’s largest Satanic death cult, Islam, exposed http://www.barenakedislam.com

LEOOHKIYVT
LEOOHKIYVT
8 years ago
Reply to  Eric Brian

Yes I think the same thing Eric, thank you.

Eric Brian
Eric Brian
8 years ago
Reply to  LEOOHKIYVT

You’re welcome, LEO—

El Cid
El Cid
8 years ago

Excellent development. It would be extremely valuable if Ted Cruz were able to find bipartisan support for this bill. This is a matter of American security, not Republican vs. Democrat. This could be a healing moment.

There is no political reason why the Democrats should support CAIR. If H. Clinton wanted to use this opportunity to make a ‘clean break’ with Obama, that would also be welcome.

This should be the bill that ‘calls Obama out!’

Let us not forget that we owe Ben Carson for putting this issue forward in the press!

______________
______________
8 years ago
Reply to  El Cid

The traitorous Democrats support CAIR because their cult of Political Correctness tells them to. Political Correctness tells them that Muslims are oppressed victims, and since they are victims, they can do no wrong. Therefore, anyone who accuses CAIR of any wrongdoing must be an Islamaphobic bigot and a hate monger. That is the insane ideology of Political Correctness. Liberals treat it like a religion. There is a reason Ann Coulter managed to write an entire book about liberal treason.

rambler
rambler
8 years ago

CAIR along with other groups should have been booted after 9/11. They are terrorists at worst and agitators and enablers at best.

sgthwjack
sgthwjack
8 years ago
Reply to  rambler

Co-conspirators by any other name, regardless of the propaganda(Bravo Sierra) to the contrary.

livingengine
livingengine
8 years ago

The evidence is over whelming that CAIR is Hamas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudrdvEetMs

ParalegalGeorge
ParalegalGeorge
8 years ago

As long as the # MUSLIM in the WH stays there, forget it. He will NEVER Surrender the LIES About #ISLAM he has SHOVED down our Throats!

Dusty Koellhoffer
Dusty Koellhoffer
8 years ago
JohnB
JohnB
8 years ago

If this is bipartisan, hopefully it will survive a BObama Veto.

pennant8
pennant8
8 years ago

The Muslim Brotherhood in the US is really not about terrorism, in fact they discourage it as counterproductive. The MB represents the stealth jihad branch of Islam. CAIR and the Muslim Students Association [MSA] are the two most active components of the MB here in the US. Both of these groups constantly work to press the “Islamophobia” agenda. The MSA is active on just about every large and many small college campuses in the US. They are the ones who demand and get special accommodation for Muslim students, like effectively converting a campus chapel into a mosque. I like to call these people jihadists in business suits or Islamic termites eating away at our cultural foundations.

Coincidentally, today, Nov 4, over at JamieGlazov.com former Pentagon Islam expert Stephen Coughlin who got booted from his job due to pressure from the MB is the guest on a video interview that runs about 10 minutes. A Must watch. After getting canned from the Pentagon Coughlin wrote a large book titled “Catastrophic Failure” in which he documents how successful the MB has been at getting us to this place in time where we have made it virtually illegal to name the enemy.

bill reitzes
bill reitzes
8 years ago

The mos lem brotherhood creed reads as follows:
– allah is our goal
– jihad is our way
– the koran is our constitution
– sharia is our law
– the prophet is our leader
– death for allah is the highest of our aspirations
What couldn’t be clearer?
The mos lem brotherhood is 100% a terrorist group.

Ernest
Ernest
8 years ago

It’s about time CAIR is exposed for what they truly are!!!

Allen Manrow Jr
Allen Manrow Jr
8 years ago

How ironic the cair hamas made a cross on the poster and that hamas has ham in it.

joshuasweet
joshuasweet
8 years ago

So Obama has committed treason in his support and advancement of the Muslim Brotherhood’ agendas?
correct me if I am wrong, please!

Lia
Lia
8 years ago

This young man Cruz is fast becoming one of my heroes! Let them get rid of the MB & then tackle CAIR & all the other terrorist instigators in the USA.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
8 years ago
Reply to  Lia

Cruz is a man after G-d’s own heart.

Lia
Lia
8 years ago
Reply to  VoiceInDesert

I believe so, yes. And if he can do this, he earns a blessing for the USA. Being a man after G-d’s heart, however, places him in opposition to Mr Obama.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
8 years ago
Reply to  Lia

Just like David with Saul.

Lia
Lia
8 years ago
Reply to  VoiceInDesert

So right you are!

harbidoll
harbidoll
8 years ago
Reply to  Lia

I understand that Cruz passed a bill that forced Obama to stop his boycott of Israel’s airport during the Gaza war.

Lia
Lia
8 years ago
Reply to  harbidoll

Good News! Thank you!

Uselesscrap
Uselesscrap
8 years ago

Does this mean Huma Abedin gets deported? She is Hillary’s top aide and comes from prominent Musslime Brotherhood family. Mom is a major fundraiser.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
8 years ago
Reply to  Uselesscrap

She is one of their most important operatives.

Infidel Knight
Infidel Knight
8 years ago

Obama will never sign off on this for this reason, he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood; has been for several decades.

conan_drum
conan_drum
8 years ago

Does anybody remember the HUC. House ‘unAmerican’ activities committee. The
so called communists victimised by HUC were no threat to the US, yet many were unable to work for years, many had careers destroyed. Islam is a far greater and real and present danger to the American way of life CAIR is a far greater threat to American life yet its power grows and grows. Just because it is part of a ‘religion’ and the darling of the POTUS it gets away with kicking US a**.
Why is CAIR not investigated for unAmerican activities? Wake up America

Eric Brian
Eric Brian
8 years ago
Reply to  conan_drum

There is no HUC today due partly to the bad taste the last misguided overzealous one left in Americans’ mouths. However, the unAmerican Muslim Committee (UMC) has a nice ring to it.
Also, Congress realizes there wouldn’t be any more point in Impeaching (“Indicting”) the Emperor Zer0bama or any of his Muzzy Brethren as there was Impeacing HillBilly Clitnon, which went nowhere since there weren’t enough votes in the Senate to Convict Slick Willy, despite overwhelming evidence of crimes beyond any reasonable doubt. Democrats have no shame

Islam masquerades as “religion,” but it is the world’s largest Satanic death cult, an all-encompassing totalitarian system of hive-mind living-matrix of collective insanity with 1.6-1.7 Billion members (thankfully they kill off each other, too). Islamists are spiritually blind, morally bankrupt out-of-the gate followers of a desert thief turned fevered-fit fool in a cave whose mad ramblings & self-admitted crazed hallucinations – fed by increasingly paranoid self-delusions, pedophilia, bestiality & other depraved perversions – deceipt, robberies, rapes & mass murder, making it up always as he went along with his followers’ lunatic-fringe enjoyment, fear & loathing.
This is why we’ll never see a Muslim’s picture of Muhammad; he was absololutely deranged, a bat-shit crazy, crippled fiend who sold his decrepit soul to the devil.
The Judeo-Christian world & all non-Muslims everywhere must know Islam is The Beast (of the land), & its Bismillah is The Mark Of The Beast, in the Bible Book of Revelation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXdFjuAJ-w
Never give in. Never surrender. Never submit. Never convert. Never say die.
Ban Islam in the free world & eradicate it everywhere.

Jim Fox
Jim Fox
8 years ago

Won’t happen as long as Mullah Obama remains

Jim Fox
Jim Fox
8 years ago

HAMAS— Hiding Among Mosques And Schools

Dan Harris
Dan Harris
8 years ago

With election of a true American as president, maybe we could have all those who supported CAIR labeled friends of terrorism and investigated them removed by force from this country. It could start with Berry and Eric and all those on CAIRs membership rolls. But alas, it is but a dream.

NoMoreIslam
NoMoreIslam
8 years ago

Hey hey hey, I just heard from my secret sources, that Putin and Obama will be canceling islam next month. All mosques must be pulled down all around the world at the same time. around 26th of November. No more moslems and no more islam. Aint that nice! A new religion called “Vermin”

NoMoreIslam
NoMoreIslam
8 years ago

As news come to hand I will be releasing it, stay tuned

wisegal1958
wisegal1958
8 years ago

Good for Congress! Finally doing something right! YES! Now GET THEM OUT OF OUR NSA AND FEDERAL AGENCIES!!!

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