The Mideast has long suffered under the shadow of the Muslim Brotherhood — a movement that has fueled radicalism, instability, and bloodshed for nearly a century.
Its poisonous ideology has inspired some of the most violent terrorist organizations on earth, from Hamas to al Qaida, to ISIS.
For decades, U.S. leaders have tiptoed around the truth, afraid of political backlash or accusations of "Islamophobia."
But the reality is clear: the Muslim Brotherhood is not a religious charity or a benign civic group. It is a political war machine that thrives on chaos and rejects peace, modernity, and coexistence.
Its ultimate goal is the creation of Islamist regimes, achieved through propaganda, infiltration, and violence.
The Brotherhood’s fingerprints are on some of the darkest chapters in recent history:
- The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981.
- The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of 1,200 innocent Israelis.
- The Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013.
- The July 7, 2005 London Underground attacks.
And countless other atrocities.
Wherever this ideology spreads, freedom dies, and innocent blood is spilled.
Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is both urgent and necessary.
Designating the Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization would freeze its assets, block its operatives from travel, cut off its foreign support networks, and expose its domestic fronts.
It would be a decisive step toward dismantling the infrastructure of Islamist terror at its source. But legislation alone is not enough.
The Brotherhood’s danger is not only in its guns and bombs — it's in its ability to shape mindsets, to convince entire populations that the future must be built on hatred and fear instead of prosperity and peace.
That is where President Donald J. Trump changed the game.
Under Trump’s leadership, the Mideast saw a breakthrough that no "expert" in Washington, D.C. believed possible: the Abraham Accords.
These historic agreements were not just about normalizing relations between Israel and Arab nations — they were about normalizing the idea of peace itself in a region where it had seemed impossible.
President Trump’s vision resonated far beyond diplomatic chambers.
He spoke directly to the people of the region — not just their leaders — showing them that prosperity, trade, jobs, and opportunity were not Western fantasies, but attainable realities.
He replaced decades of resignation with a spark of hope.
And once people get a taste of hope, they don’t easily give it up.
The Muslim Brotherhood understands this all too well.
Its doctrine thrives in hopelessness.
Prosperity is its enemy.
The American Dream, adapted to local cultures, is its nightmare.
Because when people begin to believe in a better future, the Brotherhood loses control.
That's why these terrorist ideologues will do everything they can to sabotage peace, derail cooperation, and crush any movement toward modernity.
They want the Mideast locked once again in the darkness of sectarian hatred and economic despair. But we can't go back.
America must lead. The threat is clear, the danger is proven, and the cost of inaction will be paid in blood and lost futures.
And here's the hard truth: it would be a moral disgrace if the Democratic Party blocked this bill for nothing more than political calculation.
Such a move would not merely be a partisan maneuver — it would be a betrayal of hundreds of millions of people whose hopes for peace and prosperity hang in the balance.
Blocking this bill would mean participating in the destruction of a better future for an entire region. History will record such a decision with shame.
President Trump has already proven that he is uniquely capable of breaking the old patterns of failure in the Mideast.
He knows that strength and clarity — not appeasement — are the keys to lasting peace.
And he understands that defeating the Brotherhood is about more than military action — it’s about dismantling an ideology and replacing it with a vision of life, liberty, and prosperity.
History will remember who stood firm.
This isn't just a policy debate — it's a choice between light and darkness, between hope and despair, between President Trump's proven leadership and the weakness of those who would rather appease than act.
This is a turning point in history.
The world is watching.
The enemies of freedom are watching.
Those yearning for liberty are watching.
Now is the moment for courage.
President Donald J. Trump has shown the way — America must walk it with him and light a torch of hope no enemy can ever extinguish.
Ahmed Charai is publisher of the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, TV Abraham, and Radio Abraham. He serves on the boards of several prominent institutions, including the Atlantic Council, the Center for the National Interest, the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He's also an International Councilor and a member of the Advisory Board at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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