No hard evidence supports a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation beyond one discredited memo.

Evidence

“Let me be extremely clear,” said J. M. Berger, a counter-terrorism analyst at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. “This initiative is concerned with controlling American Muslims, not with any issue pertaining to the Muslim Brotherhood in any practical or realistic sense.” In fact, counterterrorism experts have consistently acknowledged that there is no hard evidence at all to support a Muslim Brotherhood designation apart from one murky unauthenticated “1991 memorandum” written in Arabic by a mystery man allegedly affiliated with the Brotherhood. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 653

Categorization

• XREF: The lone 1991 memo connects to the chapter’s core claim that the Brotherhood smear is manufactured; resonates with Kumar’s manufacturing-a-Muslim-enemy thesis. — connects to: A leaked NSC memo depicted the OIC and Muslim Brotherhood as a monolithic mafia — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 687
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 653

Related

• A leaked NSC memo depicted the OIC and Muslim Brotherhood as a monolithic mafia (similarity 0.83)
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood would hand terrorists a recruiting propaganda tool. (similarity 0.82)
• The CIA warned that designating the Muslim Brotherhood would fuel extremism. (similarity 0.80)
• The Muslim Brotherhood designation push aimed at controlling American Muslims rather than fighting terrorism. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A leaked NSC memo depicted the OIC and Muslim Brotherhood as a monolithic mafia #corroborates (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 687