In giving a reason for removing the terrorist group from the watch list, the Biden administration claims that the group is allegedly “defunct.” However, the group is not, in fact, defunct and has merely turned into an Islamist political party which is apparently favored by the Obama administration (face it, they’re still running the show) to run Egypt in conjunction with the Muslim Brotherhood, Greenfield surmises.
He notes that the Building and Development Party has “never disavowed its own atrocities” while continuing to hold the Blind Sheikh as something of a role model. That party was banned by the Egyptian government due to its involvement in terrorist activity following the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Greenfield reminds us that the State Department’s most recent human rights report on Egypt slams the ban on the Islamist extremist party. Since the group was previously listed as a terror group by the United States, Egypt had a ready argument. However now that the group has been removed from the list, that argument no longer exists.
Bowing to the Biden administration, Egypt’s president has called for “a national political dialogue with all forces without exception or discrimination.” Meanwhile, the Middle Eastern country has been freeing members of the Muslim Brotherhood who have been imprisoned, all despite the fact that courts inside Egypt continue to sentence other members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death for their part in the violence.