Perspective: Calling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group would make all Muslims scapegoats
President Trump speaks at the National Day of Prayer service at the White House on Thursday. By Arsalan Iftikhar Arsalan Iftikhar Bio Follow Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, senior research fellow for the Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University and author of"Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms.
For decades, the “Muslim Brotherhood” label has been deployed as very sloppy shorthand to refer to all American Muslim politicians, government officials and civic organizations with whom conservatives disagree ideologically.
In many ways, this next-level Islamophobia would be history repeating itself. Many Americans forget that millions of Irish Catholics during the 19th century were smeared as “papists” with loyalties only to the Vatican by the Know Nothing Party to discredit them. Similarly, the American Jewish community dealt with a history of naked anti-Semitism in the 20th century, when Henry Ford’s newspaper published conspiracy theories about “international Jewry” to smear them.
Many people believe that this Muslim Brotherhood designation is simply a political smokescreen to criminalize Muslim civic life. Prominent groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for American Progress and Human Rights Watch have all warned that this anti-Muslim executive order would threaten the constitutional rights of millions of American Muslims in the United States.
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