Why President Trump’s Executive Order on the Muslim Brotherhood Grants the Group the Legitimacy It Seeks
Peloni: Very Important Article. Pretending that there are two sides to Evil is how we come to strengthen it in our own societies. Notably, among those castigated as the bad, or outlawed, chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, do not include the allies which Trump has found in Turkey and Qatar. Are we to accept that this is mere chance? Are we to ignore the role these powers have come to support terrorism around the world, terrorism which Trump himself once announced would no longer be tolerated? The implications of this process which supports these regimes exposes the real purpose of this move, which is not to eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood but to normalize it, as if it seeks greater integration into the collapsing West.
A Critical Analysis of a Geopolitical Miscalculation
On 24 November 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled “Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This order initiates a formal process to evaluate and potentially designate specific chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood—a transnational Islamist organisation founded in Egypt in 1928—as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). The move targets chapters in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, accusing them of fuelling terrorism, supporting groups like Hamas, and destabilising U.S. interests in the Middle East, particularly in the wake of the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel.
