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February 10, 2017

The Problems with Designating the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization

The U.S. shouldn’t overplay its hand.

The Trump administration is currently considering adding the Muslim Brotherhood—an Islamist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian group dedicated to creating a “global Islamic state”—to the State Department’s official list of terrorist organizations. Although the Brotherhood’s motto concludes with the words “jihad is our way; death for the sake of Allah is our highest aspiration,” and although it has a history of terrorist sympathies, Eric Trager argues that the case for giving it the terrorist designation is not clear-cut:

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