The US hosted the Muslim Brotherhood despite its violence against Egypt

Evidence

Some administrators even began to develop the notion of Saud as a kind of “Islamic Pope.” A year after Eisenhower wrote his letter about Saud, he received Said Ramadan, the son-in-law of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder Hassan al-Banna, at the White House. Even though the Brotherhood had resorted to violent actions, killing several Egyptian officials, Ramadan was to become a part of the United States’s strategy in the Middle East. Thus, we see that actions that would later be called “terrorism,” such as political assassinations, were acceptable if carried out by allies. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 387

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Hands the reader a concrete channel: Brotherhood son-in-law Ramadan received at the White House as part of US strategy — evidence that ‘terrorist’ labeling flexes with alliance.
• SEED: The claim that acts later called terrorism were acceptable when done by allies is a usable angle for the anti-Arab-racism-to-Islamophobia mechanism piece.

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• Pan-Arab anticolonial unity prompted CIA support for the Muslim Brotherhood (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Washington hosted the Muslim Brotherhood’s leadership while branding Brotherhood violence acceptable #corroborates (0.95)
• The US welcomed Muslim Brotherhood leaders despite their political assassinations. #corroborates (0.92)