https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/us/politics/trump-muslim-brotherhood.html Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group A former general, Mr. el-Sisi helped lead a coup in 2013 that deposed Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president and a former Brotherhood leader, and has reimposed strongman rule on Egypt. The Egyptian government deemed the Brotherhood a terrorist organization several years ago as part of a brutal crackdown on its supporters, and Mr. el-Sisi repeatedly pressed the Obama administration to follow suit. But the Obama team refused, for both legal and policy reasons. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 in Egypt, and for decades it used violence as a means to pursue its goal of a society governed by Islamic law. It renounced violence in the 1970s and embraced democracy instead, although some offshoots and former members have engaged in terrorism. The push for sanctions on the Brotherhood is the latest of several significant foreign policy decisions by Mr. Trump that appear to have been heavily influenced by talking to autocratic foreign leaders without first being fully vetted by career government professionals — such as his abrupt choice, since partly reversed, to swiftly pull American troops out of Syria. The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: جماعة الإخوان المسلمين Jamāʿat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn), is a transnational Sunni Islamistorganization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928.[8][9][10][11] The organization gained supporters throughout the Arab worldand influenced other Islamist groups such as Hamas[12]with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work",[13] and in 2012 sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the January Revolution in 2011. However, it faced periodic government crackdowns for alleged terrorist activities, and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain,[14][15] Egypt,[16] Russia,[17] Syria,[18] Saudi Arabia[19] and the United Arab Emirates.[20] The Brotherhood's stated goal is to instill the Quran and the Sunnah as the "sole reference point for ... ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community ... and state".[21] For many years the movement was supported by Saudi Arabia, with which it shared some enemies[22] and some points of doctrine.[23] Today, the primary state backers of the Muslim Brotherhood are Qatar and Turkey.[24] As a Pan-Islamic, religious, and social movement, it preached Islam, taught the illiterate, and set up hospitals and business enterprises. The group spread to other Muslim countries but has its largest, or one of its largest, organizations in Egypt despite a succession of government crackdowns in 1948,[25][26]1954,[27] 1965, and 2013 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow were uncovered.[28][29][30] The Arab Spring brought it legalization and substantial political power at first, but as of 2013 it has suffered severe reversals.[31] The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood was legalized in 2011 and won several elections,[32] including the 2012 presidential election when its candidate Mohamed Morsi became Egypt's first president to gain power through an election,[33] though one year later, following massive demonstrations and unrest, he was overthrown by the military and placed under house arrest.[34] The Brotherhood itself claims to be a peaceful, democratic organization,[35][36] and that its leader "condemns violence and violent acts".[37]
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