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114TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
S. 2230
To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on the
designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organiza-
tion, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Mr. CRUZ introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to
Congress on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood
as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Muslim Brotherhood4
Terrorist Designation Act of 2015’’.5
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.6
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:7
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(1) Multiple countries have declared the Society1
of the Muslim Brothers (commonly known as the2
‘‘Muslim Brotherhood’’) a terrorist organization or3
proscribed the group from operating in their coun-4
tries.5
(2) In 1980, following a wave of assassinations6
targeting government officials and the June 16,7
1979, massacre of 83 military cadets in Aleppo, the8
Government of Syria—9
(A) banned the Muslim Brotherhood from10
the country; and11
(B) made membership in the organization12
punishable by death.13
(3) In a February 14, 2003, court decision, the14
Russian Supreme Court—15
(A) described the Muslim Brotherhood as16
a terrorist organization; and17
(B) banned the organization from oper-18
ating in Russia.19
(4) In 2013—20
(A) an Egyptian court banned the Muslim21
Brotherhood from Egypt; and22
(B) the Government of Egypt officially de-23
clared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist orga-24
nization.25
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(5) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia designated1
the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group on2
March 7, 2014.3
(6) The Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates4
has published a list of terrorist organizations, which5
includes the Muslim Brotherhood and its local affili-6
ates.7
(7) On March 21, 2014, the Foreign Minister8
of Bahrain backed the terrorist designations of the9
Muslim Brotherhood by the United Arab Emirates10
and Saudi Arabia.11
(8) The Muslim Brotherhood, which was found-12
ed in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, remains13
headquartered in Egypt but operates throughout the14
world.15
(9) The Muslim Brotherhood’s long-standing16
motto includes the following: ‘‘Allah is our objective.17
The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law.18
Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our19
highest hope. [Allah is greater!]’’.20
(10) Hassan al-Banna, in a book entitled ‘‘The21
Way of Jihad’’, taught—22
(A) ‘‘Jihad is an obligation from Allah on23
every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor24
evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to25
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jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs1
and fighters in His way a splendid one. Only2
those who have acted similarly and who have3
modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their4
performance of jihad can join them in this re-5
ward.’’; and6
(B) ‘‘Jihad [means] the fighting of the un-7
believers, and involves all possible efforts that8
are necessary to dismantle the power of the en-9
emies of Islam including beating them, plun-10
dering their wealth, destroying their places of11
worship and smashing their idols.’’.12
(11) Hassan al-Banna also taught that ‘‘it is13
the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be domi-14
nated’’, and thus that the mission of Islam, as inter-15
preted and executed by the Muslim Brotherhood,16
must be ‘‘to impose [Islamic] law on nations and to17
extend its power to the entire planet’’. While al-18
Banna’s plan for accomplishing this mission was19
multifaceted, it centrally incorporated training for20
and the execution of violent jihad–terrorist oper-21
ations.22
(12) In Richard P. Mitchell’s 1969 book on the23
history of the Muslim Brotherhood, entitled ‘‘The24
Society of Muslim Brothers’’, Professor Mitchell ex-25
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plained al-Banna’s teachings on violent jihad: The1
certainty that jihad had this physical connotation is2
evidenced by the relationship always implied between3
it and the possibility, even the necessity, of death4
and martyrdom. Death, as an important end of5
jihad, was extolled by al-Banna in a phrase which6
came to be a famous part of his legacy: ‘‘[T]he art7
of death’’. ‘‘Death is art’’. The Koran has com-8
manded people to love death more than life. Unless9
‘‘the philosophy of the Koran on death’’ replaces10
‘‘the love of life’’ which has consumed Muslims, then11
they will reach naught. Victory can only come with12
the mastery of ‘‘the art of death’’. The movement13
cannot succeed, al-Banna insists, without this dedi-14
cated and unqualified kind of jihad.15
(13) This philosophy pervaded the Muslim16
Brotherhood’s prioritization of training for combat.17
Professor Mitchell observed that it was ‘‘the tone of18
the training which gave [the Muslim Brotherhood]19
its distinctive qualities’’, adding: ‘‘If the Muslim20
Brothers were more effectively violent than other21
groups on the Egyptian scene, it was because mili-22
tancy and martyrdom had been elevated to central23
virtues in the Society’s ethos.’’. Its literature and24
speeches were permeated with references identifying25
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it and its purposes in military terms. Al-Banna told1
members again and again that they were ‘‘the army2
of liberation, carrying on your shoulders the message3
of liberation; you are the battalions of salvation for4
this nation afflicted by calamity’’.5
(14) Al-Banna’s blueprint for revolution antici-6
pated a final stage of ‘‘execution’’ at which point the7
battalions the Muslim Brotherhood had trained8
would ‘‘conquer . . . every obstinate tyrant’’. This9
violent ideology continued to be part of the Brother-10
hood’s indoctrination in standard membership texts,11
such as Sayyid Qutb’s ‘‘Milestones’’ and Fathi12
Yakan’s ‘‘To Be a Muslim’’.13
(15) In Muslim Brotherhood organizations and14
chapters throughout the world, including in the15
United States, al-Banna’s originating philosophy16
continues to be taught.17
(16) In its earliest days, the Egyptian Muslim18
Brotherhood established a terrorist wing, referred to19
as the ‘‘secret apparatus’’, which conducted bomb-20
ings and assassinations targeting foreigners and gov-21
ernment officials. The assassinations by the Muslim22
Brotherhood of Judge Ahmed Al-Khazinder Bey in23
1947 and Prime Minister Mahmoud Al-Nuqrashi in24
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1948 prompted the first ban on the organization in1
Egypt.2
(17) The United States has previously des-3
ignated global elements of the Muslim Brotherhood4
as foreign terrorist organizations, including—5
(A) the terrorist group Hamas, which self-6
identifies as ‘‘one of the wings of the Muslim7
Brotherhood in Palestine’’, which was des-8
ignated as a foreign terrorist organization by9
President William J. Clinton on January 23,10
1995, by Executive Order 12947, and by Sec-11
retary of State Madeline Albright on October 7,12
1997, under section 219(a) of the Immigration13
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)); and14
(B) the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood’s15
Lajnat al-Daawa al-Islamiya (‘‘Islamic Call16
Committee’’), which was designated as a foreign17
terrorist organization by President George W.18
Bush on September 23, 2001, by Executive19
Order 13224 and by Secretary of State Colin20
Powell on January 9, 2003, under such section21
219(a).22
(18) Lajnat al-Daawa al-Islamiya was des-23
ignated as a foreign terrorist organization for—24
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(A) being a financial conduit for Osama1
bin Laden and Al-Qaeda;2
(B) funding terrorist groups in Chechnya3
and Libya; and4
(C) including Al-Qaeda operations chief5
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and World Trade6
Center bomber Ramzi Yousef as leaders with7
the organization.8
(19) Militias of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood9
recently joined forces with United States designated10
terrorist organizations, particularly Ansar al-Sharia,11
as part of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolu-12
tionaries and Libya Dawn forces fighting against the13
military forces of the internationally recognized Lib-14
yan government.15
(20) Individual Muslim Brotherhood leaders16
have been designated by the United States as Spe-17
cially Designated Terrorists, as authorized under the18
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (5019
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and initiated under Executive20
Order 13224 (September 23, 2001), including21
Shaykh Abd-al-Majid Al-Zindani, a leader of the22
Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood’s Al-Islah political23
party, who was designated by the Secretary of the24
Treasury as a specially designated terrorist on Feb-25
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ruary 2, 2004. The designation states that al-1
Zindani has a ‘‘long history of working with Bin2
Laden, serving as one of his spiritual leaders’’, in3
addition to his activities in support of Al-Qaeda, in-4
cluding recruiting and procuring weapons. Al-5
Zindani was also identified in a Federal lawsuit as6
a coordinator of the October 2000 suicide attack7
targeting the USS COLE in Aden, Yemen, that8
killed 17 United States Navy sailors, including per-9
sonally selecting the 2 suicide bombers. In Sep-10
tember 2012, al-Zindani reportedly called for his11
supporters to kill United States Marines stationed at12
the United States Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen.13
(21) Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, a veteran of14
the Soviet-Afghan war, senior Muslim Brotherhood15
leader, and brother-in-law and close confidant of16
Osama bin Laden was arrested in California in De-17
cember 1994 on charges related to the 1993 bomb-18
ing of the World Trade Center. Evidence was found19
at that time that linked Khalifa to the planned al-20
Qaeda Operation Bojinka plot that included the21
bombing of 11 airplanes between Asia and the22
United States. He was deported to Jordan in May23
1995. Prior to that time he operated an Islamic24
charity in the Philippines that was accused of fun-25
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neling money to the Abu Sayyef terrorist group and1
laundering money for Bin Laden. He was sought2
again by United States authorities in 2007, and an3
Interpol bulletin was issued to several United States4
intelligence agencies. Khalifa was killed four days5
later in Madagascar.6
(22) Sami Al-Hajj, an Al-Qaeda member and7
senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Shura8
Council, was imprisoned as a detainee at the De-9
partment of Defense facility at Guantanamo Bay,10
Cuba. He was captured by Pakistani forces near the11
Afghanistan border in 2001 and transferred to12
United States custody. He was detained for his work13
as a money and weapons courier for Al-Qaeda. He14
reportedly worked directly with Taliban commander15
Mullah Mohammad Omar to procure weapons, and16
met with senior Afghan Muslim Brotherhood offi-17
cials in mid-2001 to discuss the transfer of Stinger18
missiles from Afghanistan to Chechnya.19
(23) According to a May 1995 report by the20
United States House of Representatives Task Force21
on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, a series22
of conferences hosted by Sudanese Muslim Brother-23
hood leader Hassan al-Turabi in Khartoum, Sudan,24
during October 1994 and March to April 1995 fea-25
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tured representatives from virtually every Islamic1
terrorist organization in the world. The conferences2
included representatives from Iranian intelligence,3
Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Is-4
lamic Jihad, and the Armed Islamic Group of Alge-5
ria, and leaders from the international Muslim6
Brotherhood, the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf7
Countries, Hamas (the Palestinian Muslim Brother-8
hood), the Islamic Action Front (Jordanian Muslim9
Brotherhood), and the Ennahda Movement (the Tu-10
nisian Muslim Brotherhood). Osama bin Laden was11
present at the conferences. The parties agreed to12
launch a terrorism offensive beginning in 1995, with13
targets including United States interests and per-14
sonnel in the Middle East and attacks inside the15
United States homeland.16
(24) In October 2003, Richard Clarke, former17
National Coordinator for Security and Counterter-18
rorism for Presidents William J. Clinton and George19
W. Bush, testified before the Committee on Bank-20
ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate that21
terrorist organizations continued to operate inside22
the United States and their connection to the Mus-23
lim Brotherhood networks, stating ‘‘Dating back to24
the 1980’s, Islamist terrorist networks have devel-25
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oped a sophisticated and diversified financial infra-1
structure in the United States. In the post Sep-2
tember 11th environment, it is now widely known3
that every major Islamist terrorist organization,4
from Hamas to Islamic Jihad to al-Qaeda, has lever-5
aged the financial resources and institutions of the6
United States to build their capabilities. We face a7
highly developed enemy in our mission to stop ter-8
rorist financing. While the overseas operations of9
Islamist terrorist organizations are generally seg-10
regated and distinct, the opposite holds in the11
United States. The issue of terrorist financing in the12
United States is a fundamental example of the13
shared infrastructure levered by Hamas, Islamic14
Jihad and al-Qaeda, all of which enjoy a significant15
degree of cooperation and coordination within our16
borders. The common link here is the extremist17
Muslim Brotherhood—all of these organizations are18
descendants of the membership and ideology of the19
Muslim Brothers.’’.20
(25) One of the examples cited by Richard21
Clarke in his testimony before the Committee on22
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate23
was the case of Soliman Biheiri, who ran an invest-24
ment firm specializing in Islamically permissible in-25
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vestments, the Secaucus, New Jersey-based Baitul1
Mal, Incorporated, which offered a range of financial2
services for the Muslim community, and invested in3
businesses and real estate. According to Federal4
prosecutors, the shareholders of Baitul Mal included5
al-Qaeda financier Yassin al-Qadi and top Hamas6
leader Mousa abu Marzook, both of whom are spe-7
cially designated global terrorists and operated sepa-8
rate businesses out of the offices of Baitul Mal, In-9
corporated and also did business with Baitul Mal,10
Incorporated. Other Baitul Mal, Incorporated inves-11
tors included Abdullah bin Laden, nephew of Osama12
bin Laden, and Tarek Swaidan, a Kuwaiti Muslim13
Brotherhood leader. In a September 2003 detention14
hearing, Federal prosecutors described Biheiri as15
‘‘the United States banker for the Muslim Brother-16
hood,’’ and stating that ‘‘the defendant came here as17
the Muslim Brotherhood’s financial toehold in the18
United States.’’. Biheiri was convicted on Federal19
immigration charges on October 9, 2003.20
(26) The fact that the international Muslim21
Brotherhood engages in terrorism financing inside22
the United States was attested to in February 201123
by FBI Director Robert Mueller, who testified before24
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of25
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the House of Representatives about the Muslim1
Brotherhood’s networks and agenda in the United2
States, stating: ‘‘I can say at the outset that ele-3
ments of the Muslim Brotherhood both here and4
overseas have supported terrorism. To the extent5
that I can provide information, I would be happy to6
do so in closed session. But it would be difficult to7
do in open session.’’.8
(27) In the Holy Land Foundation prosecu-9
tions—the largest terrorism financing trial in United10
States history—Department of Justice officials suc-11
cessfully argued in court that the international Mus-12
lim Brotherhood and its United States affiliates had13
engaged in a widespread conspiracy to raise money14
and materially support the terrorist group Hamas.15
HLF officials charged in the case were found guilty16
on all counts in November 2008, primarily related to17
millions of dollars that had been transferred to18
Hamas. During the trial and in court documents,19
Federal prosecutors implicated a number of promi-20
nent United States-Islamic organizations in this con-21
spiracy, including the Islamic Society of North22
America, the North American Islamic Trust, and the23
Council on American-Islamic Relations. These24
groups and their leaders, among others, were named25
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as unindicted co-conspirators in the case. The De-1
partment of Justice told the court that these United2
States-Muslim Brotherhood affiliates acted at the di-3
rection of the international Muslim Brotherhood to4
support terrorism in a July 2008 court filing:5
‘‘ISNA and NAIT, in fact, shared more with HLF6
than just a parent organization. They were inti-7
mately connected with the Holy Land Foundation8
and its assigned task of providing financial support9
to HAMAS. Shortly after HAMAS was founded in10
1987, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood,11
the International Muslim Brotherhood ordered the12
Muslim Brotherhood chapters throughout the world13
to create Palestine Committees, who supported14
HAMAS with ‘media, money and men’. The U.S.-15
Muslim Brotherhood created the United States Pal-16
estine Committee, which documents reflect was ini-17
tially comprised of 3 organizations: the Holy Land18
Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine,19
and the United Association for Studies and Re-20
search. CAIR was later added to these organiza-21
tions. The mandate of these organizations, per the22
International Muslim Brotherhood, was to support23
HAMAS, and the HLF’s particular role was to raise24
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money to support HAMAS’ organizations inside the1
Palestinian territories.’’.2
(28) In September 2010, the Supreme Guide of3
the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, delivered4
a weekly sermon mirroring the ideological themes of5
Al-Qaeda’s August 1996 declaration of war against6
the United States. Calling on Arab and Muslim re-7
gimes to confront not just Israel, but also the8
United States, he declared that ‘‘Resistance is the9
only solution against the Zio-American arrogance10
and tyranny.’’. This ‘‘resistance’’ can only come11
from fighting and understanding ‘‘that the improve-12
ment and change that the [Muslim] nation seeks can13
only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by14
raising a jihadi generation that pursues death just15
as the enemies pursue life’’. He also predicted the16
imminent downfall of the United States, saying17
‘‘The United States is now experiencing the begin-18
ning of its end, and is heading towards its demise.’’.19
(29) Since August 2013, Muslim Brotherhood20
members in Egypt have been killed in firefights dur-21
ing attacks on police and military targets, and dur-22
ing the manufacture and placement of explosives for23
acts of terrorism.24
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(30) The August 14, 2013, clearing of Muslim1
Brotherhood protests in Egypt resulted in attacks by2
Muslim Brotherhood supporters targeting the Coptic3
Christian community. Attacks included 70 churches4
and more than 1,000 homes and businesses of Cop-5
tic Christian families torched in the ensuing vio-6
lence. During the Muslim Brotherhood protests,7
there were repeated reports of direct incitement to-8
wards the Copts from leading Muslim Brotherhood9
figures, and since the protest dispersal this targeting10
of the Christian community continues in official11
statements on Muslim Brotherhood social media out-12
lets and from its leadership. As the United States13
Commission on International Religious Freedom has14
previously noted, this terror campaign by the Mus-15
lim Brotherhood is not a new development. Over the16
past decade violence by the Muslim Brotherhood has17
been directed at the Coptic community. As the18
USCIRF observed in its 2003 Annual Report: ‘‘Cop-19
tic Christians face ongoing violence from vigilante20
Muslim extremists, including members of the Mus-21
lim Brotherhood, many of whom act with impu-22
nity.’’.23
(31) On January 27, 2015, the Muslim Broth-24
erhood published on their official Ikhwanonline.com25
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website an announcement that the organization was1
entering a ‘‘new phase’’ and calling its followers to2
prepare for a ‘‘long, uncompromising jihad’’ against3
the Egyptian government. The statement also posi-4
tively recalled the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist5
past, including the operations of the ‘‘secret appa-6
ratus’’ terror wing active in the 1940s and 1950s,7
and the group’s battalions organized by Brotherhood8
founder Hassan al-Banna that fought against Israel9
during its War of Independence in 1948.10
(32) On May 27, 2015, a group of 159 Muslim11
Brotherhood-associated scholars from 35 nations an-12
nounced the publication of a document endorsing vi-13
olence in Egypt in response to a ‘‘war against Is-14
lam’s principles.’’. Specifically, Article 4 of the ‘‘Call15
to Egypt’’ calls for ‘‘retribution punishment’’ against16
government officials, judges, police, soldiers, reli-17
gious officials, and media personalities backing the18
government. The document was affirmed by the19
Muslim Brotherhood in an English-language state-20
ment published on their official website.21
(33) A July 1, 2015, statement published on22
the Muslim Brotherhood’s official English-language23
website called for ‘‘rebellion’’ against the Egyptian24
government after a group of senior Muslim Brother-25
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hood leaders were killed in a shootout after opening1
fire on Egyptian anti-terror police who were raiding2
the secret meeting in 6th of October City. Docu-3
ments reportedly recovered at the scene showed that4
the leadership was planning acts of sabotage and at-5
tacks on police stations during the second anniver-6
sary of the removal of Mohamed Morsi on July 3rd.7
(34) A senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood8
leader, Ashraf Abdel Ghaffar, gave a July 3, 2015,9
interview in which he defended the sabotage of10
power stations and high voltage pylons targeting11
Egyptian citizens by the Muslim Brotherhood as12
punishment for support of the Egyptian government.13
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-14
gress that—15
(1) the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria16
for designation as a foreign terrorist organization17
under section 219 of the Immigration and Nation-18
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and19
(2) the Secretary of State, in consultation with20
the Attorney General and the Secretary of the21
Treasury, should exercise the Secretary of State’s22
statutory authority by designating the Muslim23
Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.24
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SEC. 3. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF THE MUSLIM BROTH-1
ERHOOD AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANI-2
ZATION.3
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:4
(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT-5
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-6
mittees’’ means—7
(A) the Committee on Homeland Security8
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;9
(B) the Committee on Armed Services of10
the Senate;11
(C) the Committee on Foreign Relations of12
the Senate;13
(D) the Select Committee on Intelligence14
of the Senate;15
(E) the Committee on the Judiciary of the16
Senate;17
(F) the Committee on Banking, Housing,18
and Urban Affairs of the Senate;19
(G) the Committee on Homeland Security20
of the House of Representatives;21
(H) the Committee on Armed Services of22
the House of Representatives;23
(I) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of24
the House of Representatives;25
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(J) the Permanent Select Committee on1
Intelligence of the House of Representatives;2
(K) the Committee on the Judiciary of the3
House of Representatives; and4
(L) the Committee on Financial Services5
of the House of Representatives.6
(2) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—The term7
‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given8
that term in section 3(4) of the National Security9
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).10
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date11
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in12
consultation with the intelligence community, shall submit13
a detailed report to the appropriate congressional commit-14
tees that—15
(1) indicates whether the Muslim Brotherhood16
meets the criteria for designation as a foreign ter-17
rorist organization under section 219 of the Immi-18
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and19
(2) if the Secretary of State determines that20
the Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the criteria21
referred to in paragraph (1), includes a detailed jus-22
tification as to which criteria have not been met.23
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Report on Designating Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Org

  • 1. II 114TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 2230 To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organiza- tion, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 3, 2015 Mr. CRUZ introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations A BILL To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other pur- poses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Muslim Brotherhood4 Terrorist Designation Act of 2015’’.5 SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.6 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:7 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 2. 2 •S 2230 IS (1) Multiple countries have declared the Society1 of the Muslim Brothers (commonly known as the2 ‘‘Muslim Brotherhood’’) a terrorist organization or3 proscribed the group from operating in their coun-4 tries.5 (2) In 1980, following a wave of assassinations6 targeting government officials and the June 16,7 1979, massacre of 83 military cadets in Aleppo, the8 Government of Syria—9 (A) banned the Muslim Brotherhood from10 the country; and11 (B) made membership in the organization12 punishable by death.13 (3) In a February 14, 2003, court decision, the14 Russian Supreme Court—15 (A) described the Muslim Brotherhood as16 a terrorist organization; and17 (B) banned the organization from oper-18 ating in Russia.19 (4) In 2013—20 (A) an Egyptian court banned the Muslim21 Brotherhood from Egypt; and22 (B) the Government of Egypt officially de-23 clared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist orga-24 nization.25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 3. 3 •S 2230 IS (5) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia designated1 the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group on2 March 7, 2014.3 (6) The Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates4 has published a list of terrorist organizations, which5 includes the Muslim Brotherhood and its local affili-6 ates.7 (7) On March 21, 2014, the Foreign Minister8 of Bahrain backed the terrorist designations of the9 Muslim Brotherhood by the United Arab Emirates10 and Saudi Arabia.11 (8) The Muslim Brotherhood, which was found-12 ed in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, remains13 headquartered in Egypt but operates throughout the14 world.15 (9) The Muslim Brotherhood’s long-standing16 motto includes the following: ‘‘Allah is our objective.17 The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law.18 Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our19 highest hope. [Allah is greater!]’’.20 (10) Hassan al-Banna, in a book entitled ‘‘The21 Way of Jihad’’, taught—22 (A) ‘‘Jihad is an obligation from Allah on23 every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor24 evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 4. 4 •S 2230 IS jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs1 and fighters in His way a splendid one. Only2 those who have acted similarly and who have3 modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their4 performance of jihad can join them in this re-5 ward.’’; and6 (B) ‘‘Jihad [means] the fighting of the un-7 believers, and involves all possible efforts that8 are necessary to dismantle the power of the en-9 emies of Islam including beating them, plun-10 dering their wealth, destroying their places of11 worship and smashing their idols.’’.12 (11) Hassan al-Banna also taught that ‘‘it is13 the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be domi-14 nated’’, and thus that the mission of Islam, as inter-15 preted and executed by the Muslim Brotherhood,16 must be ‘‘to impose [Islamic] law on nations and to17 extend its power to the entire planet’’. While al-18 Banna’s plan for accomplishing this mission was19 multifaceted, it centrally incorporated training for20 and the execution of violent jihad–terrorist oper-21 ations.22 (12) In Richard P. Mitchell’s 1969 book on the23 history of the Muslim Brotherhood, entitled ‘‘The24 Society of Muslim Brothers’’, Professor Mitchell ex-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 5. 5 •S 2230 IS plained al-Banna’s teachings on violent jihad: The1 certainty that jihad had this physical connotation is2 evidenced by the relationship always implied between3 it and the possibility, even the necessity, of death4 and martyrdom. Death, as an important end of5 jihad, was extolled by al-Banna in a phrase which6 came to be a famous part of his legacy: ‘‘[T]he art7 of death’’. ‘‘Death is art’’. The Koran has com-8 manded people to love death more than life. Unless9 ‘‘the philosophy of the Koran on death’’ replaces10 ‘‘the love of life’’ which has consumed Muslims, then11 they will reach naught. Victory can only come with12 the mastery of ‘‘the art of death’’. The movement13 cannot succeed, al-Banna insists, without this dedi-14 cated and unqualified kind of jihad.15 (13) This philosophy pervaded the Muslim16 Brotherhood’s prioritization of training for combat.17 Professor Mitchell observed that it was ‘‘the tone of18 the training which gave [the Muslim Brotherhood]19 its distinctive qualities’’, adding: ‘‘If the Muslim20 Brothers were more effectively violent than other21 groups on the Egyptian scene, it was because mili-22 tancy and martyrdom had been elevated to central23 virtues in the Society’s ethos.’’. Its literature and24 speeches were permeated with references identifying25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:40 Nov 05, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 6. 6 •S 2230 IS it and its purposes in military terms. Al-Banna told1 members again and again that they were ‘‘the army2 of liberation, carrying on your shoulders the message3 of liberation; you are the battalions of salvation for4 this nation afflicted by calamity’’.5 (14) Al-Banna’s blueprint for revolution antici-6 pated a final stage of ‘‘execution’’ at which point the7 battalions the Muslim Brotherhood had trained8 would ‘‘conquer . . . every obstinate tyrant’’. This9 violent ideology continued to be part of the Brother-10 hood’s indoctrination in standard membership texts,11 such as Sayyid Qutb’s ‘‘Milestones’’ and Fathi12 Yakan’s ‘‘To Be a Muslim’’.13 (15) In Muslim Brotherhood organizations and14 chapters throughout the world, including in the15 United States, al-Banna’s originating philosophy16 continues to be taught.17 (16) In its earliest days, the Egyptian Muslim18 Brotherhood established a terrorist wing, referred to19 as the ‘‘secret apparatus’’, which conducted bomb-20 ings and assassinations targeting foreigners and gov-21 ernment officials. The assassinations by the Muslim22 Brotherhood of Judge Ahmed Al-Khazinder Bey in23 1947 and Prime Minister Mahmoud Al-Nuqrashi in24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 7. 7 •S 2230 IS 1948 prompted the first ban on the organization in1 Egypt.2 (17) The United States has previously des-3 ignated global elements of the Muslim Brotherhood4 as foreign terrorist organizations, including—5 (A) the terrorist group Hamas, which self-6 identifies as ‘‘one of the wings of the Muslim7 Brotherhood in Palestine’’, which was des-8 ignated as a foreign terrorist organization by9 President William J. Clinton on January 23,10 1995, by Executive Order 12947, and by Sec-11 retary of State Madeline Albright on October 7,12 1997, under section 219(a) of the Immigration13 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)); and14 (B) the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood’s15 Lajnat al-Daawa al-Islamiya (‘‘Islamic Call16 Committee’’), which was designated as a foreign17 terrorist organization by President George W.18 Bush on September 23, 2001, by Executive19 Order 13224 and by Secretary of State Colin20 Powell on January 9, 2003, under such section21 219(a).22 (18) Lajnat al-Daawa al-Islamiya was des-23 ignated as a foreign terrorist organization for—24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:40 Nov 05, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 8. 8 •S 2230 IS (A) being a financial conduit for Osama1 bin Laden and Al-Qaeda;2 (B) funding terrorist groups in Chechnya3 and Libya; and4 (C) including Al-Qaeda operations chief5 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and World Trade6 Center bomber Ramzi Yousef as leaders with7 the organization.8 (19) Militias of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood9 recently joined forces with United States designated10 terrorist organizations, particularly Ansar al-Sharia,11 as part of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolu-12 tionaries and Libya Dawn forces fighting against the13 military forces of the internationally recognized Lib-14 yan government.15 (20) Individual Muslim Brotherhood leaders16 have been designated by the United States as Spe-17 cially Designated Terrorists, as authorized under the18 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (5019 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and initiated under Executive20 Order 13224 (September 23, 2001), including21 Shaykh Abd-al-Majid Al-Zindani, a leader of the22 Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood’s Al-Islah political23 party, who was designated by the Secretary of the24 Treasury as a specially designated terrorist on Feb-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 9. 9 •S 2230 IS ruary 2, 2004. The designation states that al-1 Zindani has a ‘‘long history of working with Bin2 Laden, serving as one of his spiritual leaders’’, in3 addition to his activities in support of Al-Qaeda, in-4 cluding recruiting and procuring weapons. Al-5 Zindani was also identified in a Federal lawsuit as6 a coordinator of the October 2000 suicide attack7 targeting the USS COLE in Aden, Yemen, that8 killed 17 United States Navy sailors, including per-9 sonally selecting the 2 suicide bombers. In Sep-10 tember 2012, al-Zindani reportedly called for his11 supporters to kill United States Marines stationed at12 the United States Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen.13 (21) Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, a veteran of14 the Soviet-Afghan war, senior Muslim Brotherhood15 leader, and brother-in-law and close confidant of16 Osama bin Laden was arrested in California in De-17 cember 1994 on charges related to the 1993 bomb-18 ing of the World Trade Center. Evidence was found19 at that time that linked Khalifa to the planned al-20 Qaeda Operation Bojinka plot that included the21 bombing of 11 airplanes between Asia and the22 United States. He was deported to Jordan in May23 1995. Prior to that time he operated an Islamic24 charity in the Philippines that was accused of fun-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:40 Nov 05, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 10. 10 •S 2230 IS neling money to the Abu Sayyef terrorist group and1 laundering money for Bin Laden. He was sought2 again by United States authorities in 2007, and an3 Interpol bulletin was issued to several United States4 intelligence agencies. Khalifa was killed four days5 later in Madagascar.6 (22) Sami Al-Hajj, an Al-Qaeda member and7 senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Shura8 Council, was imprisoned as a detainee at the De-9 partment of Defense facility at Guantanamo Bay,10 Cuba. He was captured by Pakistani forces near the11 Afghanistan border in 2001 and transferred to12 United States custody. He was detained for his work13 as a money and weapons courier for Al-Qaeda. He14 reportedly worked directly with Taliban commander15 Mullah Mohammad Omar to procure weapons, and16 met with senior Afghan Muslim Brotherhood offi-17 cials in mid-2001 to discuss the transfer of Stinger18 missiles from Afghanistan to Chechnya.19 (23) According to a May 1995 report by the20 United States House of Representatives Task Force21 on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, a series22 of conferences hosted by Sudanese Muslim Brother-23 hood leader Hassan al-Turabi in Khartoum, Sudan,24 during October 1994 and March to April 1995 fea-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 11. 11 •S 2230 IS tured representatives from virtually every Islamic1 terrorist organization in the world. The conferences2 included representatives from Iranian intelligence,3 Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Is-4 lamic Jihad, and the Armed Islamic Group of Alge-5 ria, and leaders from the international Muslim6 Brotherhood, the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf7 Countries, Hamas (the Palestinian Muslim Brother-8 hood), the Islamic Action Front (Jordanian Muslim9 Brotherhood), and the Ennahda Movement (the Tu-10 nisian Muslim Brotherhood). Osama bin Laden was11 present at the conferences. The parties agreed to12 launch a terrorism offensive beginning in 1995, with13 targets including United States interests and per-14 sonnel in the Middle East and attacks inside the15 United States homeland.16 (24) In October 2003, Richard Clarke, former17 National Coordinator for Security and Counterter-18 rorism for Presidents William J. Clinton and George19 W. Bush, testified before the Committee on Bank-20 ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate that21 terrorist organizations continued to operate inside22 the United States and their connection to the Mus-23 lim Brotherhood networks, stating ‘‘Dating back to24 the 1980’s, Islamist terrorist networks have devel-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 12. 12 •S 2230 IS oped a sophisticated and diversified financial infra-1 structure in the United States. In the post Sep-2 tember 11th environment, it is now widely known3 that every major Islamist terrorist organization,4 from Hamas to Islamic Jihad to al-Qaeda, has lever-5 aged the financial resources and institutions of the6 United States to build their capabilities. We face a7 highly developed enemy in our mission to stop ter-8 rorist financing. While the overseas operations of9 Islamist terrorist organizations are generally seg-10 regated and distinct, the opposite holds in the11 United States. The issue of terrorist financing in the12 United States is a fundamental example of the13 shared infrastructure levered by Hamas, Islamic14 Jihad and al-Qaeda, all of which enjoy a significant15 degree of cooperation and coordination within our16 borders. The common link here is the extremist17 Muslim Brotherhood—all of these organizations are18 descendants of the membership and ideology of the19 Muslim Brothers.’’.20 (25) One of the examples cited by Richard21 Clarke in his testimony before the Committee on22 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate23 was the case of Soliman Biheiri, who ran an invest-24 ment firm specializing in Islamically permissible in-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 13. 13 •S 2230 IS vestments, the Secaucus, New Jersey-based Baitul1 Mal, Incorporated, which offered a range of financial2 services for the Muslim community, and invested in3 businesses and real estate. According to Federal4 prosecutors, the shareholders of Baitul Mal included5 al-Qaeda financier Yassin al-Qadi and top Hamas6 leader Mousa abu Marzook, both of whom are spe-7 cially designated global terrorists and operated sepa-8 rate businesses out of the offices of Baitul Mal, In-9 corporated and also did business with Baitul Mal,10 Incorporated. Other Baitul Mal, Incorporated inves-11 tors included Abdullah bin Laden, nephew of Osama12 bin Laden, and Tarek Swaidan, a Kuwaiti Muslim13 Brotherhood leader. In a September 2003 detention14 hearing, Federal prosecutors described Biheiri as15 ‘‘the United States banker for the Muslim Brother-16 hood,’’ and stating that ‘‘the defendant came here as17 the Muslim Brotherhood’s financial toehold in the18 United States.’’. Biheiri was convicted on Federal19 immigration charges on October 9, 2003.20 (26) The fact that the international Muslim21 Brotherhood engages in terrorism financing inside22 the United States was attested to in February 201123 by FBI Director Robert Mueller, who testified before24 the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 14. 14 •S 2230 IS the House of Representatives about the Muslim1 Brotherhood’s networks and agenda in the United2 States, stating: ‘‘I can say at the outset that ele-3 ments of the Muslim Brotherhood both here and4 overseas have supported terrorism. To the extent5 that I can provide information, I would be happy to6 do so in closed session. But it would be difficult to7 do in open session.’’.8 (27) In the Holy Land Foundation prosecu-9 tions—the largest terrorism financing trial in United10 States history—Department of Justice officials suc-11 cessfully argued in court that the international Mus-12 lim Brotherhood and its United States affiliates had13 engaged in a widespread conspiracy to raise money14 and materially support the terrorist group Hamas.15 HLF officials charged in the case were found guilty16 on all counts in November 2008, primarily related to17 millions of dollars that had been transferred to18 Hamas. During the trial and in court documents,19 Federal prosecutors implicated a number of promi-20 nent United States-Islamic organizations in this con-21 spiracy, including the Islamic Society of North22 America, the North American Islamic Trust, and the23 Council on American-Islamic Relations. These24 groups and their leaders, among others, were named25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:40 Nov 05, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 15. 15 •S 2230 IS as unindicted co-conspirators in the case. The De-1 partment of Justice told the court that these United2 States-Muslim Brotherhood affiliates acted at the di-3 rection of the international Muslim Brotherhood to4 support terrorism in a July 2008 court filing:5 ‘‘ISNA and NAIT, in fact, shared more with HLF6 than just a parent organization. They were inti-7 mately connected with the Holy Land Foundation8 and its assigned task of providing financial support9 to HAMAS. Shortly after HAMAS was founded in10 1987, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood,11 the International Muslim Brotherhood ordered the12 Muslim Brotherhood chapters throughout the world13 to create Palestine Committees, who supported14 HAMAS with ‘media, money and men’. The U.S.-15 Muslim Brotherhood created the United States Pal-16 estine Committee, which documents reflect was ini-17 tially comprised of 3 organizations: the Holy Land18 Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine,19 and the United Association for Studies and Re-20 search. CAIR was later added to these organiza-21 tions. The mandate of these organizations, per the22 International Muslim Brotherhood, was to support23 HAMAS, and the HLF’s particular role was to raise24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 16. 16 •S 2230 IS money to support HAMAS’ organizations inside the1 Palestinian territories.’’.2 (28) In September 2010, the Supreme Guide of3 the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, delivered4 a weekly sermon mirroring the ideological themes of5 Al-Qaeda’s August 1996 declaration of war against6 the United States. Calling on Arab and Muslim re-7 gimes to confront not just Israel, but also the8 United States, he declared that ‘‘Resistance is the9 only solution against the Zio-American arrogance10 and tyranny.’’. This ‘‘resistance’’ can only come11 from fighting and understanding ‘‘that the improve-12 ment and change that the [Muslim] nation seeks can13 only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by14 raising a jihadi generation that pursues death just15 as the enemies pursue life’’. He also predicted the16 imminent downfall of the United States, saying17 ‘‘The United States is now experiencing the begin-18 ning of its end, and is heading towards its demise.’’.19 (29) Since August 2013, Muslim Brotherhood20 members in Egypt have been killed in firefights dur-21 ing attacks on police and military targets, and dur-22 ing the manufacture and placement of explosives for23 acts of terrorism.24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:40 Nov 05, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 17. 17 •S 2230 IS (30) The August 14, 2013, clearing of Muslim1 Brotherhood protests in Egypt resulted in attacks by2 Muslim Brotherhood supporters targeting the Coptic3 Christian community. Attacks included 70 churches4 and more than 1,000 homes and businesses of Cop-5 tic Christian families torched in the ensuing vio-6 lence. During the Muslim Brotherhood protests,7 there were repeated reports of direct incitement to-8 wards the Copts from leading Muslim Brotherhood9 figures, and since the protest dispersal this targeting10 of the Christian community continues in official11 statements on Muslim Brotherhood social media out-12 lets and from its leadership. As the United States13 Commission on International Religious Freedom has14 previously noted, this terror campaign by the Mus-15 lim Brotherhood is not a new development. Over the16 past decade violence by the Muslim Brotherhood has17 been directed at the Coptic community. As the18 USCIRF observed in its 2003 Annual Report: ‘‘Cop-19 tic Christians face ongoing violence from vigilante20 Muslim extremists, including members of the Mus-21 lim Brotherhood, many of whom act with impu-22 nity.’’.23 (31) On January 27, 2015, the Muslim Broth-24 erhood published on their official Ikhwanonline.com25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 18. 18 •S 2230 IS website an announcement that the organization was1 entering a ‘‘new phase’’ and calling its followers to2 prepare for a ‘‘long, uncompromising jihad’’ against3 the Egyptian government. The statement also posi-4 tively recalled the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist5 past, including the operations of the ‘‘secret appa-6 ratus’’ terror wing active in the 1940s and 1950s,7 and the group’s battalions organized by Brotherhood8 founder Hassan al-Banna that fought against Israel9 during its War of Independence in 1948.10 (32) On May 27, 2015, a group of 159 Muslim11 Brotherhood-associated scholars from 35 nations an-12 nounced the publication of a document endorsing vi-13 olence in Egypt in response to a ‘‘war against Is-14 lam’s principles.’’. Specifically, Article 4 of the ‘‘Call15 to Egypt’’ calls for ‘‘retribution punishment’’ against16 government officials, judges, police, soldiers, reli-17 gious officials, and media personalities backing the18 government. The document was affirmed by the19 Muslim Brotherhood in an English-language state-20 ment published on their official website.21 (33) A July 1, 2015, statement published on22 the Muslim Brotherhood’s official English-language23 website called for ‘‘rebellion’’ against the Egyptian24 government after a group of senior Muslim Brother-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:40 Nov 05, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 19. 19 •S 2230 IS hood leaders were killed in a shootout after opening1 fire on Egyptian anti-terror police who were raiding2 the secret meeting in 6th of October City. Docu-3 ments reportedly recovered at the scene showed that4 the leadership was planning acts of sabotage and at-5 tacks on police stations during the second anniver-6 sary of the removal of Mohamed Morsi on July 3rd.7 (34) A senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood8 leader, Ashraf Abdel Ghaffar, gave a July 3, 2015,9 interview in which he defended the sabotage of10 power stations and high voltage pylons targeting11 Egyptian citizens by the Muslim Brotherhood as12 punishment for support of the Egyptian government.13 (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-14 gress that—15 (1) the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria16 for designation as a foreign terrorist organization17 under section 219 of the Immigration and Nation-18 ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and19 (2) the Secretary of State, in consultation with20 the Attorney General and the Secretary of the21 Treasury, should exercise the Secretary of State’s22 statutory authority by designating the Muslim23 Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 20. 20 •S 2230 IS SEC. 3. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF THE MUSLIM BROTH-1 ERHOOD AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANI-2 ZATION.3 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:4 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT-5 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-6 mittees’’ means—7 (A) the Committee on Homeland Security8 and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;9 (B) the Committee on Armed Services of10 the Senate;11 (C) the Committee on Foreign Relations of12 the Senate;13 (D) the Select Committee on Intelligence14 of the Senate;15 (E) the Committee on the Judiciary of the16 Senate;17 (F) the Committee on Banking, Housing,18 and Urban Affairs of the Senate;19 (G) the Committee on Homeland Security20 of the House of Representatives;21 (H) the Committee on Armed Services of22 the House of Representatives;23 (I) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of24 the House of Representatives;25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 21. 21 •S 2230 IS (J) the Permanent Select Committee on1 Intelligence of the House of Representatives;2 (K) the Committee on the Judiciary of the3 House of Representatives; and4 (L) the Committee on Financial Services5 of the House of Representatives.6 (2) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—The term7 ‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given8 that term in section 3(4) of the National Security9 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).10 (b) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date11 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in12 consultation with the intelligence community, shall submit13 a detailed report to the appropriate congressional commit-14 tees that—15 (1) indicates whether the Muslim Brotherhood16 meets the criteria for designation as a foreign ter-17 rorist organization under section 219 of the Immi-18 gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and19 (2) if the Secretary of State determines that20 the Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the criteria21 referred to in paragraph (1), includes a detailed jus-22 tification as to which criteria have not been met.23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS
  • 22. 22 •S 2230 IS (c) FORM.—The report required under subsection (b)1 shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include2 a classified annex, if appropriate.3 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:BILLSS2230.IS S2230 srobinsononDSK5SPTVN1PRODwithBILLS