US President Donald Trump is pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization and impose sanctions on the global Islamist body.
The Brotherhood gained mainstream notoriety as the most organized movement during the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, when it managed to assume power in multiple countries including Egypt, the historical leader along with Saudi Arabia of the Sunni Muslim world.
However, some analysts argue that the Brotherhood’s ideology has spawned numerous terrorist groups such as al Qa’ida and the Islamic State. As a result, Cairo and Riyadh, in addition to other Gulf nations, have blacklisted the Brotherhood and imprisoned many of its leaders.
The Media Line spoke with Dr. Brandon Friedman, Director of Research at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies, about the possible ramifications of the US move for regional states, some of which support the implementation of political Islam.
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