(Toronto Sun) As the United States prepares to declare a contentious Islamic group a terrorist entity, pressure is growing here at home for Canada to follow suit.
On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump reinstated his administration’s intention to declare the Muslim Brotherhood — an Islamist organization founded in Egypt nearly a century ago — a terrorist organization.
“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Trump told American news outlet Just the News on Sunday.
“Final documents are being drawn.”
Tumultuous history in Egypt
Founded by Egyptian cleric Hassan al-Banna in 1928, the teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood spread throughout the Arab world after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in 1967, eventually becoming influential enough to enter popular politics in Egypt.
