{"id":143667,"date":"2019-05-14T00:46:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=143667"},"modified":"2019-05-14T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:46:58","slug":"trump-considers-them-terrorists-but-some-are-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=143667","title":{"rendered":"Trump Considers Them Terrorists, but Some Are Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143671\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10brotherhood5-jumbo-v2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-143671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10brotherhood5-jumbo-v2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian schoolteacher, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928.\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10brotherhood5-jumbo-v2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10brotherhood5-jumbo-v2.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian schoolteacher, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In Kuwait, the Muslim Brotherhood is vocally pro-American.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In Iraq, the Brotherhood\u2019s political party has steadfastly supported the American-backed political process and still forms part of the governing coalition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>And in Yemen, the Brotherhood-linked party is cooperating with some of America\u2019s closest Arab allies in a war against a faction backed by Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">President Trump\u2019s proposal to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization raises the difficult question of just whom he intends to target. The original Islamist organization, founded in Egypt in 1928, has spun off or inspired thousands of independent social or political groups around the world, and they are far from monolithic.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They include mainstream associations and advocacy groups in Europe and North America, as well as recognized political parties in United States allies from Morocco to Indonesia. Although most of the Brotherhood-linked parties are sharply critical of United States foreign policy, at least a few \u2014 like those in Kuwait, Iraq and Yemen \u2014 have sometimes also supported American goals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>[Is the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist?]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The push to penalize the Brotherhood has come from one set of American allies: Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who see the Brotherhood and its calls for elections as a threat to their stability.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But the same step risks alienating another set of partners, including Turkey, Qatar and Jordan, which have either aligned themselves with the Brotherhood or integrated Brotherhood spinoffs into their political systems.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Leaving aside the question of whether the Brotherhood or these spinoffs meet the legal criteria for designation as terrorists, experts say, the proposal risks drawing the United States into a feud that Washington has no stake in.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is the new cold war in the region, and there is not a good side and a bad side from the U.S. perspective,\u201d said Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. \u201cAll these countries are close American partners, and letting ourselves get forced to take sides will just harm U.S. interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization would block its members from entering the United States and bar anyone in the country from supporting or even consulting with them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143668\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_154618227_df124847-f3c3-406f-b33c-721641c0e102-jumbo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-143668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_154618227_df124847-f3c3-406f-b33c-721641c0e102-jumbo-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"A Muslim Brotherhood demonstration last month in Jordan in support of the king.\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_154618227_df124847-f3c3-406f-b33c-721641c0e102-jumbo-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_154618227_df124847-f3c3-406f-b33c-721641c0e102-jumbo.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muslim Brotherhood demonstration last month in Jordan in support of the king.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But the far-flung international movement can hardly be described as a single organization.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Today the only connection among the Brotherhood\u2019s many offshoots may lie in a sleepy two-story office above a defunct takeout pizza restaurant in a suburb northwest of London. Because of a ferocious government crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood at home in Egypt, this is now the headquarters of the Egyptian Brotherhood\u2019s acting leader, Ibrahim Munir, a frail 82-year-old lawyer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In truth, Mr. Munir said, he has no authority over or much contact with the many independent Brotherhood-linked organizations around the world.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe try to coordinate,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it is not a management structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Moreover, he argued, the Brotherhood is not an organization as much as an idea \u2014 unconstrained by borders, subject to widely varying applications and almost impossible to expunge.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTrump thinks he is treating the Muslim Brotherhood like that wall he wants to build with Mexico, but you can\u2019t build up a wall against an idea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The vagueness of that idea \u2014 essentially that a bottom-up Islamic religious revival will unlock social progress \u2014 has opened it to many interpretations followed by disparate groups.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But the Brotherhood\u2019s atomization is only one obstacle to its designation as terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Under United States law, the designation can be applied only to organizations that direct violence against American interests, and there is no publicly available evidence that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has done that.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A few Brotherhood spinoffs may qualify \u2014 notably Hamas, the Palestinian militant group. But the United States has already sanctioned them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Career staff working for the Pentagon, State Department and the National Security Council have argued against Mr. Trump\u2019s proposal in part for those legal reasons.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It would also be the first time the United States has applied the terrorist label to a popular mass movement, one with millions of followers across the Muslim world, not a small and secretive organization on the model of Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Among American allies, the ruling party in Turkey is an ideological cousin; in Jordan, King Abdullah has long relied on a Brotherhood-linked party to provide an outlet for limited and nonviolent political opposition; and Qatar has sought to expand its influence by aligning with the Brotherhood-style Islamists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The American-allied governments of Bahrain, Morocco, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Kenya also all recognize political parties rooted in the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">People at a mosque in Cairo in 2013 mourned the death of a Morsi supporter killed during protests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Bryan Denton for The New York Times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Those parties and governments have so far stayed quiet about Mr. Trump\u2019s proposal, possibly for fear of picking a fight with the White House while the chances of any action remain uncertain. Still, the tension is clear.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Turkey, Yasin Aktay, a politician close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, argued in a recent newspaper column that the proposed sanction against the Brotherhood would \u201cdeliver a new blow to the U.S.\u2019s own credibility\u201d and \u201ccarries the risk of being perceived as a total declaration of war against not only this organization but Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Jordan, where a political party that grew out of the movement holds 16 seats in Parliament, King Abdullah has resisted demands from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143669\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_148212210_62b4ae95-6129-4307-be12-ff1eb2fd93c6-jumbo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-143669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_148212210_62b4ae95-6129-4307-be12-ff1eb2fd93c6-jumbo-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"A ceremony in Gaza last year marking the 31st anniversary of Hamas\u2019s founding\" width=\"490\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_148212210_62b4ae95-6129-4307-be12-ff1eb2fd93c6-jumbo-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/merlin_148212210_62b4ae95-6129-4307-be12-ff1eb2fd93c6-jumbo.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ceremony in Gaza last year marking the 31st anniversary of Hamas\u2019s founding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Americans\u2019 doing so \u201cwill put Jordan in a direct confrontation with the U.S.,\u201d said Amer Sabaileh, a political analyst and columnist in Amman.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Kuwait, the Brotherhood party\u2019s positive attitude toward Washington dates to the role that the United States played in rolling back an invasion by Iraq nearly three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Iraq, the Sunni-dominated Brotherhood party has formed cross-sectarian partnerships with Shiite-dominated parties in successive coalition governments, even at the price of losing some Sunni political support.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Yemen, the party associated with the Brotherhood has formed a strange-bedfellows alliance with Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. to battle a common enemy, the Iranian-backed Houthis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And in Bahrain, the home of a major American naval base, the Brotherhood-linked party is a pillar of support for the Sunni monarchy, which has struggled against opposition from the country\u2019s Shiite majority.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hamas, the Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been designated a terrorist organization for more than two decades, and its supporters argued this week that their organization could benefit if Mr. Trump sanctioned the larger Brotherhood movement. It would diminish the cost to Brotherhood supporters of backing their Palestinian cousins.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf they are considered terrorists anyway, why not support Hamas?\u201d asked Basem Naim, a former Palestinian health minister and prominent Hamas member. \u201cThey have got nothing to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Several experts in Washington noted that, aside from Hamas, Brotherhood-inspired parties had engaged in the kind of nonviolent parliamentary politics that American officials usually encourage. Calling the Brotherhood a terrorist organization could thus send a troubling message to young people in a region with few viable paths to improve their lives, argued Michele Dunne, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kuwait, the Muslim Brotherhood is vocally pro-American. In Iraq, the Brotherhood\u2019s political party has steadfastly supported the American-backed political process and still forms part of the governing coalition. And in Yemen, the Brotherhood-linked party is cooperating with some of America\u2019s closest Arab allies in a war against a faction backed by Iran. President Trump\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-te-public"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Considers Them Terrorists, but Some Are Allies - Arab Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=143667\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Considers Them Terrorists, but Some Are Allies - Arab Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Kuwait, the Muslim Brotherhood is vocally pro-American. 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