Mohamed Fahmy: I've seen the Muslim Brotherhood's violent ideology first hand. Canada must designate it a terrorist entity |
Many Middle Eastern countries recognize the danger it poses, but Ottawa has not followed suit
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As an Egyptian-Canadian journalist of the Muslim faith and human rights defender, I strongly urge the Canadian government to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
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The story of this malicious transnational Sunni Islamist organization starts in Egypt in 1928. The ideas of its founder, Hassan al-Banna, spread globally, influencing charitable organizations, political parties and violent Islamist groups, such as Hamas.
Canada designated Hamas as a terrorist entity in 2002, but its ideological forbearer, the Muslim Brotherhood, is still noticeably absent.
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While covering the political turmoil on the streets of Egypt as a journalist for CNN during the peak of the Arab Spring and its wave of revolutions that gripped the region in 2011, the dangers of political Islam became evident to me.
I often thought about the Muslim Brotherhood’s logo, with the Arabic word “prepare” written below two crossed swords, as thousands of the group’s supporters waived flags carrying this striking emblem in some of the most organized and well-funded daily protests. They often chanted “Islam is the solution.” Many of the protests ended with violent confrontations with the authorities. But what were they preparing for?
Egyptians learned the hard way that their famous motto, “Islam is the solution,” meant that the group wanted to eventually implement the movement’s self-stated goal of establishing a state ruled by Islamic Shariah law.
On June 24,........