This is not the time for halfway measures in the war Islam has declared on the West. So, the White House announcement that it has designated several “chapters” of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, while welcome, does nothing the confront the threat the Brotherhood represents right here in America.
In a statement posted to the Department of State website, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced:
Optimists may take solace in several points in the statement, such as this is a “first step” and “These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs.” However, the fact remains that failing to designate the entire organization, especially the parts operating right here in America, only strengthens it and undercuts the efforts of state officials, such as Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas’ Governor Greg Abbott, to fight the Muslim penetration of their states.
Why didn’t the Rubio statement include the American and other “chapters” of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Our suspicion is that, in the face of all the evidence, the President is being told not to implement such a ban by Qatar, Turkey, the CIA and other Deep State operators.
To refute that suicidal Deep State advice the Victory Coalition, of which ConservativeHQ.com is a member, has released a report called, The Choice: “Ban the Brotherhood” or Face “Civilization Erasure” Here.
The Choice draws on an extraordinary analysis conducted fifteen years ago by an eminent group of national security practitioners and other patriots known as “Team B II.” Their report was sponsored by the Center for Security Policy and entitled, Sharia: The Threat to America.
That report powerfully refuted that era’s prevailing official view that the Muslim Brotherhood “eschewed violence” and therefore was moderate and a natural ally in the so-called “War on Terror” and the “violent extremists” waging it against us. Unfortunately, that view continues largely to guide U.S. policy today.
With the benefit of hindsight, however, it is clear that Team B II was right: The Muslim Brotherhood fully embraces Sharia with its emphasis on achieving the global caliphate, through violent conquest wherever possible. Only in those instances where such jihad might prove counterproductive do the Brotherhood and its affiliates opt for other, not so much non-violent but pre-kinetic and often stealthy techniques to advance the same goal.
By responding so incompetently to the actual, present and growing danger posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, its proxies and allies, willfully blind officials in our government are actually inducing the Sharia-supremacists to perceive that the realization of their pursuit of “civilization erasure” of the West and global domination is at hand. That perception requires them doctrinally to redouble their efforts decisively and violently to conquer their infidel enemies.
And we see those redoubled efforts in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and elsewhere right here in America.
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization should be a no-brainer since the Brotherhood is committed to the destruction of America and its submission, along with the rest of the world, to a global “caliphate” ruling according to Islam’s totalitarian Sharia code. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz brilliantly documented these ambitions in a short video entitled, “Inside the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Our constitutional republic, and its laws and traditions, are under attack by Muslim adherents to Sharia – which is actually not a religion – who are emulating Mohammed’s jihad against Christians and Jews.
It's a reasonable bet that those jihadis are inspired – if not actually enabled – by the Muslim Brotherhood or its myriad allies, front groups, “chapters” and “subdivisions.” So are others pursuing in pre-violent ways what President Trump calls “civilization erasure.”
The bottom line is that we must jettison the irresponsible policies of the past – including such practices as officials embracing Brotherhood leaders and organizations; ignoring the ideological character and implications of Sharia; focusing exclusively, and, at best, episodically, on violent actions, but remaining willfully blind to their true jihadist motivations – in favor of more realistic and far more effective approaches, starting with banning Islam’s most potent force in America, the Muslim Brotherhood.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com. A veteran of over 300 political campaigns, he served as a staff member or advance representative for some of America’s most recognized conservative political figures, including Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin and Jack Kemp. A member of American MENSA, he served on the House and Senate staff and on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle. Rasley is a graduate of Hanover College and studied international affairs at Oxford University's Worcester College. Rasley has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the Muslim world, including staffing Vice President Quayle on official visits to Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
In a statement posted to the Department of State website, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced:
Today, as a first step in support of President Trump’s commitment to eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that pose a threat to the United States as described in Executive Order 14362, the United States is imposing terrorist designations against the Lebanese, Jordanian, and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Department of State is designating the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), and the group’s leader Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh as an SDGT. Concurrently, the Department of the Treasury is designating the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as SDGTs for providing material support to Hamas.
These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs. The United States will use all available tools to deprive these Muslim Brotherhood chapters of the resources to engage in or support terrorism.
The Department of State is designating the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), and the group’s leader Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh as an SDGT. Concurrently, the Department of the Treasury is designating the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as SDGTs for providing material support to Hamas.
These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs. The United States will use all available tools to deprive these Muslim Brotherhood chapters of the resources to engage in or support terrorism.
Optimists may take solace in several points in the statement, such as this is a “first step” and “These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs.” However, the fact remains that failing to designate the entire organization, especially the parts operating right here in America, only strengthens it and undercuts the efforts of state officials, such as Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas’ Governor Greg Abbott, to fight the Muslim penetration of their states.
Why didn’t the Rubio statement include the American and other “chapters” of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Our suspicion is that, in the face of all the evidence, the President is being told not to implement such a ban by Qatar, Turkey, the CIA and other Deep State operators.
To refute that suicidal Deep State advice the Victory Coalition, of which ConservativeHQ.com is a member, has released a report called, The Choice: “Ban the Brotherhood” or Face “Civilization Erasure” Here.
The Choice draws on an extraordinary analysis conducted fifteen years ago by an eminent group of national security practitioners and other patriots known as “Team B II.” Their report was sponsored by the Center for Security Policy and entitled, Sharia: The Threat to America.
That report powerfully refuted that era’s prevailing official view that the Muslim Brotherhood “eschewed violence” and therefore was moderate and a natural ally in the so-called “War on Terror” and the “violent extremists” waging it against us. Unfortunately, that view continues largely to guide U.S. policy today.
With the benefit of hindsight, however, it is clear that Team B II was right: The Muslim Brotherhood fully embraces Sharia with its emphasis on achieving the global caliphate, through violent conquest wherever possible. Only in those instances where such jihad might prove counterproductive do the Brotherhood and its affiliates opt for other, not so much non-violent but pre-kinetic and often stealthy techniques to advance the same goal.
By responding so incompetently to the actual, present and growing danger posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, its proxies and allies, willfully blind officials in our government are actually inducing the Sharia-supremacists to perceive that the realization of their pursuit of “civilization erasure” of the West and global domination is at hand. That perception requires them doctrinally to redouble their efforts decisively and violently to conquer their infidel enemies.
And we see those redoubled efforts in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and elsewhere right here in America.
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization should be a no-brainer since the Brotherhood is committed to the destruction of America and its submission, along with the rest of the world, to a global “caliphate” ruling according to Islam’s totalitarian Sharia code. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz brilliantly documented these ambitions in a short video entitled, “Inside the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Our constitutional republic, and its laws and traditions, are under attack by Muslim adherents to Sharia – which is actually not a religion – who are emulating Mohammed’s jihad against Christians and Jews.
It's a reasonable bet that those jihadis are inspired – if not actually enabled – by the Muslim Brotherhood or its myriad allies, front groups, “chapters” and “subdivisions.” So are others pursuing in pre-violent ways what President Trump calls “civilization erasure.”
The bottom line is that we must jettison the irresponsible policies of the past – including such practices as officials embracing Brotherhood leaders and organizations; ignoring the ideological character and implications of Sharia; focusing exclusively, and, at best, episodically, on violent actions, but remaining willfully blind to their true jihadist motivations – in favor of more realistic and far more effective approaches, starting with banning Islam’s most potent force in America, the Muslim Brotherhood.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com. A veteran of over 300 political campaigns, he served as a staff member or advance representative for some of America’s most recognized conservative political figures, including Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin and Jack Kemp. A member of American MENSA, he served on the House and Senate staff and on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle. Rasley is a graduate of Hanover College and studied international affairs at Oxford University's Worcester College. Rasley has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the Muslim world, including staffing Vice President Quayle on official visits to Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
