US classification of Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organization has limited impact

Yemen

Yamanat

Salah Al-Saqladi

This is not the first time that the United States of America has expressed its intention to classify the international Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. For years, he has been threatening, but not doing it, for reasons he says are complex and which prevent him from doing so. Yesterday, the White House announced in its official account on the “X” platform that President Trump had committed in the strongest terms to classifying the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and that final documents were being prepared to classify the group as a foreign terrorist movement on American territory. »

This classification, if actually implemented, will affect the movement legally and financially in America and perhaps to some extent in some European countries, but it is not expected to have a major impact outside of it, particularly in the Middle East, the movement’s main stronghold, for several reasons, including:

– There is no legal name for parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in countries where these parties exist with an explicit name called Muslim Brotherhood. They all have different and hidden names. Some of them even deny their ideological and intellectual affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, as is the case with the Yemeni Islah party in Yemen and the Islamic Action Front party in Jordan. Even in Palestine, Hamas.

The other problem is that the American decision which must be approved talks about classifying the movement as a foreign terrorist movement inside America.

In addition, some parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood are partners in the governance of certain countries, notably in Yemen, Jordan and even Turkey. Turkey is a close ally of the United States in NATO. It will be extremely difficult for the United States of America to consider some of these governments, most of which are loyal to Washington, as governments sharing power with a terrorist movement. Washington cannot pressure these regimes to reject parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, nor are these regimes capable of doing so, nor of opening themselves to the hell of conflict and the gates of chaos within their countries, no matter how much American pressure, especially in light of the tense Arab conditions that fuel hatred of America because of its support for the Zionist occupation state.

– Indeed, even the Arab countries of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, which classified the Muslim Brotherhood movement as a terrorist movement about five years ago, in the midst of the Gulf crisis with the State of Qatar, have never been able to implement it in reality. On the contrary, they cooperate closely with all parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization in other countries, as well as in Turkey, which is at the top of its power pyramid, with a party and president “Erdogan” affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood movement. Erdogan supports all Muslim Brotherhood movements in the region and even recently added an Islamic guest to the region. What is new is Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and his authority, largely affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. What’s kind of funny is that Washington removed him and his controversial group from the terrorist list and recently welcomed him to the White House and even sprayed him with luxury perfumes. He is affiliated not only with the Muslim Brotherhood, but also with Al-Qaeda and ISIS at different stages of his jihadist activity.

In Yemen, where Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have been engaged in a bitter war for more than ten years, they are allying themselves with the largest Muslim Brotherhood-leaning parties, namely the Yemeni Islah party, and even providing it with money and weapons, as well as political support, to allow it, as well as the other parties grouped under the aegis of the Arab coalition, to regain power in Sanaa.

Therefore, their classification of the Muslim Brotherhood movement has become worthless and ineffective. On the contrary, it has become an argument against them for those who want to argue with them saying: is it reasonable to classify and accuse parties of terrorism, then ally with them and support them with money and weapons? Despite our belief that there are Emirati temptations behind this decision by Trump, Abu Dhabi, despite its formal and reluctant cooperation with the Islah party in Yemen, resents him, and the situation in Sudan has added another factor that concerns us. To believe that the UAE exerted temptations on Trump, the UAE, which supports the Rapid Support Forces, considers that the recognized Burhan government has a Muslim Brotherhood ideological background that must be besieged.

There is also another factor that led Washington to classify the Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist movement, namely the war in Gaza, and the Hamas movement, which is also affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, is classified as a terrorist organization by America, Israel and a number of European countries.

America and Israel, as well as several Western countries, fear the growth of the religious movement in the Middle East, particularly the crimes and attacks carried out by Israel in Gaza and a number of countries in the past.

If there is anyone who is satisfied with this American classification, it is the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah). Not only because of the rivalry with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and in particular the Yemeni Islah Party, the movement’s main rival, which has been fighting it for years, but because this American classification would ease the pressure on the Houthi movement and make its opponents less intense in the rivalry, once all are equal under the guillotine of targets and placed on the same list… It is as if the Houthi movement is saying: we are all concerned about the East, so here we are. We are all in the same target box. He who wears American clothes is naked, my honorable.

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