In time-honored fashion, Trump is first abridging the free speech rights of an unfavored group. Don’t think the abridgement will stop there. From Robert Inlakesh at tlavagabond.substack.com:
Donald Trump is implementing an Israel Lobby plot to eliminate nonprofits critical of Israel and to crack down on the First Amendment rights of his citizens, under the guise of targeting Muslim Brotherhood organizations. This insidious conspiracy is part of a carefully calibrated plot to silence all dissent and is being carried out using the same justifications used during the so-called “War on Terror.”
In Parts One and Two of this series, I laid out the details of a coordinated Israeli campaign designed both as a propaganda strategy to rescue support for Tel Aviv, and as a simultaneous effort to silence those critical of Israel in the United States. The primary means of achieving this goal is through an anti-Muslim Brotherhood legislative push, which will inevitably be followed by targeted lawfare and the weaponization of federal security forces.
On November 18, Texas Governor Greg Abbott took the step of designating the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a terrorist organization, but he did not target it alone; he also stated that he was proscribing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The American Muslim group, which had previously won legal challenges against the governor’s past decisions, pointed out that Abbott does not have the power to simply proscribe groups as he just did. This decision was covered in more depth in part two of this series.
However, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, does have the power to take action against groups he is advised to designate as terrorist organizations. On November 24, he did just that through his executive order: “The Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” The order initiates a process, set to take place over 45 days, to designate chapters of the MB as terrorist organizations and thus implement sanctions against them.
This did not come out of the blue. In fact, just days before Trump’s executive order was issued on November 19, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released a report. The ISGAP analytical briefing was a comprehensive 183-page document entitled, “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into Western Society: A Systematic Analysis,” which argued that the Muslim Brotherhood must face a U.S. government crackdown in order to stifle an alleged centuries-long Islamic conspiracy to infiltrate the West.
