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   A new petition on the White House website asks the   
   administration to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist   
   organization.   
      
   The request was posted on petitions.whitehouse.gov on July 7 and   
   quickly garnered more than the 100,000 signature requirement for   
   the Obama administration to officially consider the request.   
      
   "Declare Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist group,"   
   was written within days of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi,   
   who drew much of his support from the group, being removed from   
   power by the military in early July.   
      
   The petition states, “Muslim Brotherhood has a long history of   
   violent killings & terrorizing opponents. Also MB has direct   
   ties with most terrorist groups like Hamas.   
      
   “The Muslim Brotherhood has shown in the past few days that it   
   is willing to engage in violence and killing of innocent   
   civilians in order to invoke fear in the hearts of its   
   opponents. This is terrorism,” the petition reads.   
      
   “We ask the US government to declare MB as a terrorist group for   
   a safer future for all of us.”   
      
   The administration has remained relatively quiet about the   
   Brotherhood’s recent methods in Egypt while Morsi was in power.   
      
   “The Muslim Brotherhood has surely inspired or spawned terrorist   
   organizations, I don’t know that the Brotherhood itself has   
   engaged in specific terrorist activities itself,” Lawrence Haas,   
   a former senior White House official and current Senior Fellow   
   for U.S. Foreign Policy at the American Foreign Policy Council   
   told FoxNews.com.   
      
   “For the [Obama] administration, the issue is more basic,” he   
   added. “The Brotherhood has now involved itself fully in the   
   political process of its home nation, Egypt. Rather than rule   
   democratically, however, Morsi and the Brotherhood began to rule   
   in an authoritarian manner, which was always the fear about this   
   fundamentalist organization.   
      
   “By downplaying human rights, the administration avoids some   
   government-to-government conflict. At the same time, it raises   
   doubts among the hundreds of millions of people across the   
   region, whether we are on their side or on the side of the   
   autocrats. ..I think the better long-term strategy for the   
   administration is to promote human rights more forcefully, even   
   if that means occasional discomfort on the diplomatic front. “   
      
   The “We the People” petition program, which was set up by the   
   White House late last year, stipulates that all requests must   
   receive some sort of response from the administration when150   
   signatures are added within the first 30 days and the petition   
   gains 100,000 signatures by the second 30 days.   
      
   The goal was met in less than a month with the petition hitting   
   136,383 signatures as of Thursday.   
      
   The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/petition-calls-for-   
   white-house-to-declare-muslim-brotherhood-terrorists/   
      
                
      
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