'The counter-revolutionary agenda in the Middle East blends seamlessly with the rise of global authoritarianism and the Islamophobic agenda of the authoritarian far-right.' Opinion | Sam Hamad
the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, what we’re witnessing is the culmination of US far-right Islamophobic narratives concerning the group, and propaganda aimed against them that has emerged out of the triumph of counter-revolution in the so-called Arab spring.
Moreover, Saudi and the UAE, both of whom backed Sisi’s coup to the tune of billions of dollars, and have subsequently gone on a The Brotherhood became synonymous in the mind of tyrants with the change that was sweeping the region – a change that might very well have sounded their death knell. Discarding their previous commitment to theocracy, the Brotherhood in the 1980s and 1990s began to shift towards supporting what can loosely be described as ‘Islamic democracy’ or ‘democratic Islamism’.
Following suit from Sisi’s absurd counter-revolutionary propaganda that would have you believe the Brotherhood were behind everything from Egypt’s constant power cuts to the rise of Daesh in the Sinai, the propaganda narrative projected by Saudi and the UAE became that the Brotherhood were dangerous extremists akin to Daesh and Al Qaeda.
It would be folly to see Trump’s proposed designation of the Brotherhood as a ‘terrorist organisation’ solely through the lens of foreign policy. Though it certainly aligns with the agenda of counter-revolution emerging out of the Arab spring, it also forms a key part of the agenda of the Islamophobic alt-right in the US and around the world.
Trump could very well wield this proscribing of the Brotherhood as a means to disenfranchise American Muslims and further curtail their participation in US civil society. In this way, Trump could persecute peaceful politically active Muslims while claiming that he’s simply working against a ‘terrorist organisation’ and ‘extremism’.
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