“Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in fact plays into the hands of ISIS and other terrorist groups,” said Georgetown University professor John Esposito. “It will be used by the terrorists as a propaganda recruitment tool against the United States. Declaring the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization would fuel an anti-Muslim witch hunt that the US has not experienced since the McCarthy anti-communist era.”

XREF: Connects to broader debates about how counterterrorism labeling can backfire and fuel extremism narratives.

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