Members of the Senate Inhofe and Cruz to Reintroduce the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) joined U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week to reintroduce the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, a bill that urges the U.S. State Department to use its statutory authority to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). This measure requires the State Department to report to Congress about whether the Muslim Brotherhood meets the legal criteria for designation. U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) also cosponsored the bill.
“Since the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Brotherhood affiliated groups have consistently preached and incited hatred against Christians and other Muslims while supporting designated radical terrorists” Inhofe said. “I am proud that we will continue to call out and combat radical terrorism and I am glad to join my colleagues today in reintroducing this legislation. We must continue to condemn Foreign Terrorist Organizations and hold them accountable for the evil they perpetrate.”
“I am proud to reintroduce this bill and to advance America’s fight against radical Islamic terrorism,” said Cruz. “I commend the current administration’s work calling terrorism by its name and combatting the spread of this potent threat, and I look forward to receiving the additional information this new bill requests from the Department of State. Many of our closest allies in the Arab world have long ago concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group that seeks to sow chaos across the Middle East, and I will continue working with my colleagues to take action against groups that finance terrorism.”
