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The legislation that will be used to intimidate and imprison members of the
Muslim community has been introduced
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<http://mondoweiss.net/author/michael-merryman-lotze/> Michael Merryman-Lotze
on February 3, 2017
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Ted Cruz (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
A bill to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization
<https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2953> has now been introduced
in Congress. It is important to note that this is an exceptional move. If this
bill passes and the Muslim Brotherhood is declared a terrorist organization,
that determination will be a political act, not an act based on the advice,
review, and findings of the U.S. officials responsible for making these
decisions within the State Department and Security Services.
This will mean that politicians can declare any group they do not like
terrorists for ideological reasons (not that this isn’t already the case to a
certain extent). The impact of such a move is terrifying. Members of these
groups will be subject to assassination and imprisonment. Other countries will
use this as an excuse for political repression and military action. People will
be tortured, killed, and disappeared.
In the US this law will be used to sweep up and act against groups in the
Muslim Community. Groups like CAIR, the Muslim Student Association, and
American Muslims for Palestine will be some of the first groups attacked, even
if there are no provable links to the Muslim Brotherhood. The political right
has attacked these groups and others for years by accusing them, without proof,
of being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups. This action
against the Muslim Brotherhood is about political repression in this country,
not just abroad.
And don’t think that evidence is needed to act against US citizens. Just look
at the case of the Holy Land Five <http://mondoweiss.net/?s=holy+land+five> .
In that case the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation were convicted and
imprisoned for supposedly funding Hamas. Yet the charities that they supported
did not appear on the list of organizations noted as having links to terrorism,
the list used by humanitarian agencies to vet their partners, when they gave
their grants. Not only that, during the period when the Holy Land Foundation
provided its assistance to these organizations, the U.S. government through
USAID was providing funds to the same groups and Hamas had not yet been
declared a terrorism organization. Don’t think that political trials can’t
happen. They have happened. They are happening.
Concerned about a Muslim Registry? This is the registry. This is what will be
used to intimidate, silence, and imprison members of the Muslim community. This
is what needs to be opposed. This is when resistance action is needed. It is
easy to say you will support your Muslim brothers and sisters, but when they
start screaming terrorism will you still stand in support? That is when you are
really needed.
About Michael Merryman-Lotze
Mike Merryman-Lotze works with the American Friends Service Committee in
Philadelphia as their Palestine-Israel Program Director. He has been involved
in activism on Palestine since 1996. From 2000 through 2003 Mike worked as a
researcher with Al-Haq in Ramallah and from 2007 through 2010 he worked with
Save the Children UK as their Child Rights Program Manager in Palestine with
responsibility for programs in both the West Bank and Gaza.
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Ted Cruz (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
A bill to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization
<https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2953> has now been introduced
in Congress. It is important to note that this is an exceptional move. If this
bill passes and the Muslim Brotherhood is declared a terrorist organization,
that determination will be a political act, not an act based on the advice,
review, and findings of the U.S. officials responsible for making these
decisions within the State Department and Security Services.
This will mean that politicians can declare any group they do not like
terrorists for ideological reasons (not that this isn’t already the case to a
certain extent). The impact of such a move is terrifying. Members of these
groups will be subject to assassination and imprisonment. Other countries will
use this as an excuse for political repression and military action. People will
be tortured, killed, and disappeared.
In the US this law will be used to sweep up and act against groups in the
Muslim Community. Groups like CAIR, the Muslim Student Association, and
American Muslims for Palestine will be some of the first groups attacked, even
if there are no provable links to the Muslim Brotherhood. The political right
has attacked these groups and others for years by accusing them, without proof,
of being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups. This action
against the Muslim Brotherhood is about political repression in this country,
not just abroad.
And don’t think that evidence is needed to act against US citizens. Just look
at the case of the Holy Land Five <http://mondoweiss.net/?s=holy+land+five> .
In that case the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation were convicted and
imprisoned for supposedly funding Hamas. Yet the charities that they supported
did not appear on the list of organizations noted as having links to terrorism,
the list used by humanitarian agencies to vet their partners, when they gave
their grants. Not only that, during the period when the Holy Land Foundation
provided its assistance to these organizations, the U.S. government through
USAID was providing funds to the same groups and Hamas had not yet been
declared a terrorism organization. Don’t think that political trials can’t
happen. They have happened. They are happening.
Concerned about a Muslim Registry? This is the registry. This is what will be
used to intimidate, silence, and imprison members of the Muslim community. This
is what needs to be opposed. This is when resistance action is needed. It is
easy to say you will support your Muslim brothers and sisters, but when they
start screaming terrorism will you still stand in support? That is when you are
really needed.
About Michael Merryman-Lotze
Mike Merryman-Lotze works with the American Friends Service Committee in
Philadelphia as their Palestine-Israel Program Director. He has been involved
in activism on Palestine since 1996. From 2000 through 2003 Mike worked as a
researcher with Al-Haq in Ramallah and from 2007 through 2010 he worked with
Save the Children UK as their Child Rights Program Manager in Palestine with
responsibility for programs in both the West Bank and Gaza.
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