A leaked NSC memo depicted the OIC and Muslim Brotherhood as a monolithic mafia

Evidence

To highlight the disastrous impact of this Trump-ian thinking, I note that a leaked National Security Council (NSC) memo written by then-NSC Director of Strategic Planning Rich Higgins outlined the conspiratorial manner in which the Trump administration believed that Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the fifty-seven-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) were allegedly working together as monolithic Muslim enemies seeking to undermine Donald Trump in an absurd mafia-like manner with no proof offered whatsoever. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 687

Categorization

• QUESTION: Verifiable claim worth checking: the Rich Higgins NSC memo on ‘the global Islamic sphere’ — a concrete artifact that shows the civilizational frame operating inside US national security.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 687
• XREF: connects to: No hard evidence supports a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation beyond one discredited memo. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 653; The Muslim Brotherhood avoided confronting Israel and was favored by occupation authorities — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 318; Nasser’s Arab socialism actively suppressed the Muslim Brotherhood and clerical power — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 311

Related

• No hard evidence supports a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation beyond one discredited memo. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The Muslim Brotherhood avoided confronting Israel and was favored by occupation authorities #complicates (0.40) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 318
• Nasser’s Arab socialism actively suppressed the Muslim Brotherhood and clerical power #complicates (0.40) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 311