Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928, influential across the Middle East and politically active in numerous countries. The claims center on debates over whether the U.S. should designate it as a terrorist organization and its role in regional politics.

Claims that use this term

• The CIA warned that designating the Muslim Brotherhood would fuel extremism.
• No hard evidence supports a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation beyond one discredited memo.
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood would hand terrorists a recruiting propaganda tool.
• A leaked NSC memo depicted the OIC and Muslim Brotherhood as a monolithic mafia
• The US courted even a violent Muslim Brotherhood against Nasser
• Nasser’s Arab socialism actively suppressed the Muslim Brotherhood and clerical power