by David Virtue on substack
Gas and oil rich Arab nation reach includes the U.S. India, Europe and Beyond
Earlier this month President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the State and Treasury departments to pursue terrorism designations for specific Muslim Brotherhood chapters.
It marks one of the most significant shifts in U.S. policy toward the movement in decades and comes none too soon.
Muslim extremist organizations are infiltrating US educational institutions with billions of dollars quietly and aggressively undermining Israel and Zionism at every turn.
Signed on Nov. 24, it launched the first formal review of Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon under U.S. designation laws and redefines how Washington treats Islamist movements with political and militant wings. Sadly, it missed Qatar, the financial source of nearly all Muslim Brotherhood transactions and activity.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had issued a proclamation declaring the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “foreign terrorist and transnational organizations.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’” Abbott said in his proclamation. “The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable.”
According to the Gatestone Institute, shocking new findings by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) show that Qatar’s strategic investment in Islamist soft power, has far-reaching consequences for the United States, India, Europe, and beyond.