Explained: Muslim Brotherhood, the group the US wants designated ‘terrorist’

Muslim Brotherhood a movement that was founded in Egypt in 1928 by a schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna, who preached that an Islamic religious revival would help Muslim nations improve their situation and defeat their colonial masters.

Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Ikhwan al Musalmin, Hassan al Banna, US, Terrorism, Libya, world news, Indian Express — Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Turkey and Tunisia are among the countries that have large parties that trace their origins to the Brotherhood.

Earlier this week, the White House said that a proposal to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organisation was “working its way through the internal process”. The statement was linked to a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt in the White House last month, during which the Egyptian leader urged the United States to impose sanction on the Brotherhood, which opposes his government.