Al Qaeda was created by a Muslim Brotherhood splinter group. Osama bin Laden was a Brotherhood member and originally went to Pakistan as part of the ‘Ikhwan’ Brotherhood. Hamas is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. So are many other Islamic terror groups.

After 9/11, there was a wave of raids on Brotherhood operations in the United States and those raids produced most of what we know about its operations in American. Unfortunately the Muslim Brotherhood had already heavily influenced American politics through a network of Islamist organizations like CAIR and the Bush administration pulled back. The Obama administration made aiding the Brotherhood’s takeovers during the Arab Spring a key part of its foreign policy leading to a new wave of attacks on a 9/11 anniversary including in Benghazi.

The Trump administration ushered in a wave of political change, but Brotherhood members have still been able to operate in inner circles in D.C. The question is whether the United States is ready to root out the political terrorist network within.

Sen. Ted Cruz has officially introduced his Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025. The bill focuses on the more obvious terrorist networks to overcome past opposition to designating the so-called ‘peaceful’ Brotherhood arms as terrorists. In reality, as CAIR has shown us, the political arms and the terrorist arms are part of a single whole. CAIR supported Hamas because the political arms are not peaceful, they simply pursue a different strategy for undermining the ‘infidels’ and wielding power.

The question is how many senators will be willing to get on board and defy the attacks from CAIR and other groups, along with their leftist allies, and the growing numbers of Muslim settler leaders and donors in their states?