Distinguishing Faith from Politics: The Rationale Behind the Muslim Brotherhood Terror Designation
A vital distinction should be drawn here: identifying the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group is not an act of pursuing the Islamic faith or the millions of peaceful American Muslims which it purports to represent, but in fact, a radical political movement. According to its own organizational documentation, including the so-called "Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal of the Group in North America" that was found in 1991, the Brotherhood itself has a long-term strategic goal of achieving a "grand Jihad" to eliminate and destroy Western civilization: "The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization and in order to do that, they must understand that the Ikhwan work in America is a kind of grand jih It is not religious mission, but political one that uses the religious imagery. The worries of the U.S. government are proved true by organizational as well as i...