The Muslim Brotherhood

An Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928 that spreads its message through Islamic da’wa (proselytizing) and combines religious mission with modern political-organizational strategies. It is a real, definable political-religious movement with an organizational history, and in the claims it is treated as a subject of US government designation debates and a distinct political actor in the Middle East.

Claims that use this term

• The Muslim Brotherhood designation push aimed at controlling American Muslims rather than fighting terrorism.
• The Muslim Brotherhood designation would threaten constitutional rights of US Muslims.
• The Muslim Brotherhood avoided confronting Israel and was favored by occupation authorities
• The Muslim Brotherhood grafted modern political-organizational strategies onto Islamic da’wa