Trump to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Group #CAIR #ISNA #MSA

This is, indeed, wonderful news. These terror-tied groups have been operating unchecked under the Obama administration – worse still, he partnered with many of them.

Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR, Muslim Student Association, Islamic Society of North America are terror-tied groups that must be prosecuted under the full extent of the law.

Under Obama, the  Department of Justice is engaged in collusion with the country’s most dangerous and subversive jihadist groups. And this is not just Department of Justice (DoJ) policy. It’s the policy of the Obama administration.

For years my readers and I  wanted to know why there were no indictments and prosecutions of the Muslim Brotherhood co-conspirators (CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS) named in the largest terror funding trial in US history (here, for example).  Obama and Holder have scuttled them, much the same way as they dropped the voter intimidation charges against the Black Panthers (a case that was, by and large, already won).

The joke is that a number of leaders of Islamic organizations (all of whom publicly opposed the King hearings on Muslim radicalization) were about to be indicted on terror finance support charges by the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas, which had been investigating the case for most of the past decade.

But those indictments were scuttled last year at the direction of top-level political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) — and possibly even the White House.

Included in those indictments was at least one of the co-founders of CAIR, based on “Declination of Prosecution of Omar Ahmad,” a March 31 DOJ legal memo from Assistant Attorney General David Kris to Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler. A second DOJ official familiar with the investigation independently confirmed these details. Omar Ahmad is one of CAIR’s co-founders and its chairman emeritus. He was personally named, along with CAIR itself, as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial in 2007 and 2008. During the trial FBI Agent Lara Burns testified that both Omar Ahmad and current CAIR executive director Nihad Awad were caught on FBI wiretaps attending a 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders in Philadelphia.

Trump to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terror Org. By Clarion, November 13, 2016:

A bill that enjoys bipartisan support is already making its way through Congress. YOU can help speed up that process.

Donald Trump will work to pass legislation designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, said Walid Phares, a foreign policy advisor for the president-elect.

Speaking to the Egyptian news outlet Youm7, Phares said the legislation, which was already approved by the House Judiciary Committee earlier this year and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was held up due to the Obama administration’s support of the group.

CP spearheaded a campaign to educate legislators and move the bill forward over the past year.  The bill currently has bipartisan support.

See below for a list of senators and representatives and their stance on the bill and what you can do to move the bill forward.

In November of 2015, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the bill, which identifies three Brotherhood entities in the U.S. including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

“We have to stop pretending that the Brotherhood are not responsible for the terrorism they advocate and finance … We have to see it for what it is: a key international organization dedicated to waging violent jihad,” Cruz told the Washington Free Beacon at the time.

The bill included is an unprecedented opportunity to educate members of Congress about the Muslim Brotherhood‘s involvement in terrorism.  It reviews the Brotherhood’s terrorist history and how it is banned by the governments of Egypt, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Syria. Egypt released videos showing the Brotherhood’s involvement in terrorism and the Egyptian government’s website warns about the Brotherhood lobby in the United States.

The bill also outlines how the Brotherhood is linked to CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT).

The U.S. designated the Brotherhood’s Palestinian wing—Hamas— in 1997, but the group a whole is allowed to operate in the U.S.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Members Without a Stated Position on S2230

Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

John Barrasso (R-WY)

Ben Cardin (D-MD); Ranking Member

Christopher Coons (D-DE)

Bob Corker (R-TN); Chairman

Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

Cory Gardner (R-CO)

Johnny Isakson (R-GA)

Tim Kaine (D-VA)

Edward Markey (D-WA)

Bob Menendez (D-NJ)

Chris Murphy (D-CT)

Rand Paul (R-KY)

David Perdue (R-GA)

James Risch (R-ID)

Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

Tom Udall (D-NM)

Senators in Support of the Act

Ted Cruz (R-TX)	Original introducer of legislation
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Ron Johnson (R-WI)	Foreign Relations Committee member
Pat Roberts (R-KS)

Representatives in Support of HR3892 (Cosponsors and/or Voted Yay)

Mike Bishop (R-MI)	Diane Black (R-TN)
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)	Jim Bridenstine (R-OK)
Ken Buck (R-CO)	Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Steve Chabot (R-OH)	Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
Curt Clawson (R-FL)	Doug Collins (R-GA)
Charlie W. Dent (R-PA)	Ron DeSantis (R-FL)
Scott DesJerlais (R-TN)	Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Blake Farenthold (R-TX)	J. Randy Forbes (R-VA)
Trent Franks (R-AZ)	Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)	Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
Kay Granger (R-TX)	Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)
Darrell Issa (R-CA)	Bill Johnson (R-OH)
Jim Jordan (R-OH)	David P. Joyce (R-OH)
Steve King (R-IA)	Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)
Tom Marino (R-PA)	John L. Mica (R-FL)
Steven Palazzo (R-MS)	Colin C. Peterson (D-MN)
Ted Poe (R-TX)	Mike Pompeo (R-KS)
Bill Posey (R-FL)	John Ratcliffe (R-TX)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
David Rouzer (R-NC)	Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Lamar Smith (R-TX)	Steve Stivers (R-OH)
David A. Trott (R-MI)	Mimi Walters (R-CA)
Randy Weber (R-TX)	Mike Kelly (R-PA)
Duncan Hunter (R-CA)	Candice S. Miller (R-MI)
James B. Renacci (R-OH)	Daniel Webster (R-FL)
Peter J. Roskam (R-IL)	Tim Huelskamp (R-KS
Charlie J. Fleischmann (R-TN)	Jeff Duncan (R-SC)
Dave Brat (R-VA)	Todd Rokita (R-IN)
Kenny Marchant (R-TX)	Robert Pittenger (R-NC)
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)	Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC)
Rep. Gene Green (D-TX)	Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR)
Rep. Charles W. Boustany, Jr. (R-LA)

Representatives Opposed to the Act

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA)	Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA)
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)	Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)
Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA)	Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX)	Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)	Rep. Pedro Pierluisi (D-Puerto Rico)

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