The United States is unlikely to impose an expansive terrorist designation on the Muslim Brotherhood, choosing instead to focus on specific branches and individuals and emboldening anti-Brotherhood governments to take harder stances against the movement. On Nov. 24, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order starting the process to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). The order calls for the secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, attorney general and director of national intelligence to submit a joint report in 30 days regarding the designation of Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and potentially elsewhere. After 45 days, the White House intends to impose FTO designations on the branches the report finds to be backing terrorism. The move comes against the backdrop of Florida and Texas declaring the Brotherhood and a Brotherhood-affiliated Muslim civil rights organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as...
