WHEREAS, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in an August 12, 2025, interview that America is in the process of preparing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, its various branches, and CAIR as terror organizations; and

WHEREAS, the State Republican Executive Committee adopted the “Resolution Denouncing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)” on June 14, 2025; and

WHEREAS, on July 15, 2025, Senator Ted Cruz introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, S. 2293, joined by Republican Senators Tom Cotton (AR), John Boozman (AR), Rick Scott (FL), Ashley Moody (FL), and Dave McCormick (PA) in urging President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to use their statutory authority to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization; and

WHEREAS, on July 26, 2025, U.S. Representatives Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), reintroduced the companion Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, H.R. 4397, a bipartisan bill that seeks to designate the global Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a terrorist group; and

WHEREAS, on June 10, 2025, U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Is a Terrorist Organization Act, H.R. 3883, directing the Secretary of State to formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act; and

WHEREAS, Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain, have already designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization; and

WHEREAS, the Muslim Brotherhood provides support to its branches that are terrorist organizations, including Hamas; and

WHEREAS, on October 7, 2023, Hamas committed the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and their attack included the murder and kidnapping of at least 53 Americans; and

WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of State officially designated Hamas as a FTO on October 8, 1997; and

WHEREAS, the legal and practical impact of designating the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliated organizations as FTOs is that persons in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States are prohibited from knowingly providing “material support or resources” to a designated FTO; and

WHEREAS, because the FTO designation makes it criminal to support the FTO, the designation gives law enforcement the capacity to prosecute those who aid that FTO, thus expanding prosecutorial options for law enforcement and depriving the FTO of resources; and

WHEREAS, the Muslim Brotherhood has previously admitted openly its intention to eliminate and destroy Western Civilization, including America, as stated in writing by Mohammed Akram, senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America, who in 1991 wrote the “Explanatory Memorandum,” laying out the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to destroy America from within; and

WHEREAS, that Memorandum, which was introduced into evidence in the U.S. government’s successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation – the largest terrorism-financing trial in the nation’s history – states in part:

“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions”; now

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Republican Party of Texas urges:

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terror Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
  • President Trump to consider issuing an Executive Order designating the Muslim Brotherhood as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs)
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and its known leaders to the Terrorism Exclusion List (TEL) in accordance with the Immigration and Nationality Act, deeming members and representatives of groups on the TEL inadmissible to the United States.