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I'm starting a running thread on the Muslim Brotherhood, in light of the news that Trump is pushing to designate the group as a terrorist organization

First, here's a 5 minute @BrookingsFP primer I did on why it's a bad idea:
As I note in the video, there isn't a single American expert on the Muslim Brotherhood who supports designation. That's because if you study the organization, there's really no way you can conclude, from a factual standpoint, that it meets the designation criteria
Here's a piece I wrote in @TheAtlantic on whether the "facts" even matter when debating if the Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, since the Trump administration isn't really making a fact-based argument for designation but rather an ideological one: theatlantic.com/international/…
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