Congress Moves Bill Forward to Outlaw Muslim Brotherhood
After President Donald Trump ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to determine whether Muslim Brotherhood chapters in certain countries should be designated as foreign terrorist organizations, Congress went a step further, and is now moving forward on legislation that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood everywhere as a terrorist organization. More on this legislation, that has just passed its first hurdle in the House, can be found here:
US Lawmakers Advance Bill to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Organization
by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, December 4, 2025:
The US House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation to designate the entire Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, continuing a bipartisan push in Washington to combat the global Islamist network.
Members of the committee voted to approve the bill on a bipartisan basis, with every Republican and several Democrats supporting the measure just over a week after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to determine whether to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists.
Notably, the legislation would require the US government to proscribe the Islamist network globally, while Trump’s order more narrowly directs Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to submit a report “on whether to designate any Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan.”
The legislation considered on Wednesday was spearheaded by Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL).
“I am pleased that my bill to designate the entire Muslim Brotherhood globally as a terrorist organization has been approved by the full committee. This is a step in the right direction and further amplifies other efforts, like those of President Trump, to take decisive action against this insidious threat,” Diaz-Balart said in a statement.
“I thank Chairman [Rep. Brian Mast] for his leadership and the committee for advancing this bill to protect US national security interests and Americans by prohibiting US dollars from enabling the Muslim Brotherhood’s dangerous and pernicious activities while ensuring that MB members are blocked from entering the United States,” he continued.
Moskowitz similarly praised the committee for advancing the bill to a broader debate by the full House of Representatives.
“For decades, the Brotherhood has been tied to extremism and instability across the Middle East and around the world,” he said in a statement. “Other nations have already taken steps to investigate the Brotherhood and its affiliates, and the United States must have the authority to do the same.”…
A recent report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) found that Qatar has funneled roughly $20 billion into American schools and universities over five decades as part of a coordinated, 100-year project to embed Muslim Brotherhood ideologies in the US.
The 200-page report, unveiled in Washington, DC to members of Congress, chronicles a 50-year effort by Brotherhood-linked groups to embed themselves in American academia, civil society, and government agencies, exposing what ISGAP calls the Brotherhood’s “civilization jihad” strategy, while maintaining an agenda fundamentally at odds with liberal democratic values.
Both the House and Senate versions of the legislation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide as a terrorist organization will certainly pass, with only a few Democrats withholding support. Then what will be needed is for Congress to establish the link between the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. It has been outlawed in the United Arab Emirates as a “terrorist organization.” In November, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as state-level “Foreign Terrorist and Transnational Criminal Organizations.” A Congressional vote can extend that designation across the country if CAIR’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood can be shown. That shouldn’t be hard to do.
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