The Biden State Department wouldn’t touch it for years, but under a new America First foreign policy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making it clear that the days of the Muslim Brotherhood hiding behind political activism are numbered.
On Tuesday, Rubio told Sid Rosenberg of “Sid and Friends in the Morning” that the U.S. is already in the process of formally designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, Newsmax reported.
The exchange came after Rosenberg called out New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for raking in support from radical groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Rubio emphasized that while the process is lengthy and requires extensive review, his State Department is actively pursuing it.
QUESTION: So while we talk about designating the cartels, Marco, as a terrorist organization, I got to ask you: Why wouldn’t you guys designate the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR? I just – I look at these organizations, I have a mayor’s race here in New York City with this psycho, this lunatic Mamdani. Both of these groups you know are behind him, especially the Muslim Brotherhood. Is that something you think we can count on maybe in the near future? Maybe not CAIR just yet, but certainly the Muslim Brotherhood?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah, all of that is in the works, and obviously there are different branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so you’d have to designate each one of them. But let me just tell you that there’s a process which I didn’t fully appreciate till I came into this job, and I know people don’t want to hear about processes, but because these things are going to be challenged in court, right? Any group can say, “Well, I’m not really a terrorist – that organization is not a terrorist organization,” so you have to show your – you have to show your – the paperwork. You have to show your work like the – like a math problem when you go before court.
So we have to go through this process internally where you have to do the review, you have to document and justify what it is. You can know something is what it is, but you still got to go through it so that when someone comes back, as you’ve seen – they don’t hesitate to go to court now. We are tied up in hundreds and hundreds of lawsuits of every kind. All you need is one federal judge – and there are plenty – that are willing to do these nationwide injunctions and basically try to run the country from the bench. So we’ve got to be so careful.
But all of those things are – that you just discussed, without getting into great detail because I can’t yet, are in the process. We are constantly reviewing for groups to designate for what they are: supporters of terrorists, maybe terrorists themselves, whatever it may be. We haven’t done this in a long time, so it’s – we’ve got a lot of catch-up to do. And you’ve mentioned a couple names, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, that are of grave concern.
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, is widely recognized as the ideological parent of Hamas, al-Qaeda, and numerous other jihadist groups. Its stated goal is the global implementation of Sharia law, and its branches have been linked to violent uprisings, political assassinations, and terrorist financing.
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