This year in the U.S., Texas and Florida designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. In the coming days, the Trump administration is expected to do the same.
President Donald Trump's executive order beginning the process of designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization follows a lengthy report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, known as ISGAP.
The report, nearly 200 pages long, argues that the Muslim Brotherhood has spent decades advancing what it calls a "civilization jihad" aimed at undermining democratic institutions in the United States and the West.
"This is an organization that believes in murdering Jews, destroying Israel, and destroying the United States of America," said Dr. Charles Asher Small, the founder and director of ISGAP. "This is their objective."
Founded nearly a century ago in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood now operates across the Middle East. Hamas originated as the group's Palestinian branch, according to the report.
In November, Small appeared alongside lawmakers and scholars to warn that the Brotherhood is "more than halfway through" what ISGAP describes as a 100-year plan to erode democratic societies from within.
"They sponsor terrorism, murder, and mayhem across the planet," said U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at a recent Knesset prayer event. "They are a very negative and destructive force, and it's very important for the United States to use its power and influence to call them out for what they are."
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