Israel National News reports: “The Muslim Brotherhood sharply criticized US President Donald Trump’s executive order to begin designating certain chapters of the organization as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), calling the move ‘detached from reality.’

In a statement released Wednesday and quoted by Middle East Eye, the group rejected Trump’s allegations of terrorist activity as ‘unsupported by evidence.’

The directive, it said, was ‘politically motivated and lacks any credible legal or security basis,’ warning that ‘this Executive Order sets a dangerous precedent.’

The Brotherhood argued that the designation ‘undermines US national security and regional stability, and emboldens those who pushed for this outcome to justify repression, collective punishment, and economic sanctions.’

It accused Trump of bowing to pressure from Israel and the UAE. ‘The facts have not changed. What has changed is the level of foreign pressure on the United States, particularly from the UAE and Israel, to adopt policies that serve external agendas rather than the interests of the American people,’ the statement said…”