The United States may finally be getting serious about defanging the Muslim Brotherhood.
A new bill making its way through Congress, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, represents a new chapter in America’s complex history with the oldest and most influential Islamist movement.
The bipartisan legislation, led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Jared Moskowitz, would for the first time designating the global Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, clearing the way for US sanctions.
Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Brotherhood’s member groups operate in virtually all Muslim-majority countries, as well as in the West.
Each branch proclaims the same core worldview of Muslim supremacy, but adapts tactics and goals to the local environment — some at times engaging in democratic politics and legitimate activism, others deploying brutal violence.
Hamas, the official Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood, is a prime example of this