The election of Donald Trump, who has surrounded himself with anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists and with Republicans in control of the Senate and House, gives the proposed Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act a chance of passing and being signed into law, the Huffington Post added.
Not surprisingly, during his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump's national security advisers included the Center for Security Policy's founder and president, Frank Gaffney, and its vice president, Clare Lopez.
Under the helm of Gaffney, the Center for Security Policy (CSP) has done more than any other group to push the "civilization jihad" conspiracy theory. The CSP is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose website describes Gaffney as "gripped by paranoid fantasies about Muslims destroying the West from within.
Gaffney has also baselessly accused multiple political figures including Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and conservative activists Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan "of infiltrating the U.S. government on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to the Washington Post, calls for Trump to "deport," "annihilate" or "expel" the Muslim Brotherhood -- along with a list of other organizations, CAIR in particular -- have lit up social media in the weeks since the November election, and CAIR officials said their offices have been inundated with calls and emails warning them that their time is almost up.
"I think President Trump should expel every member of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood on day one. Send them back to their sandbox", tweeted one person under the screen name "housecracka."
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