But it also underscored the complex dynamics involving the Muslim Brotherhood, whose chapters have only loose relationships across national lines. Frank Gaffney Jr., founder of the Center for Security Policy, who once asserted that Mr. Obama might secretly be a Muslim, urged Mr. Trump on Breitbart’s radio show last week to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Even in Turkey, a NATO ally, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood. But it did not recommend that it be designated as a terrorist organization, either. as a terrorist organization, that decision would be welcome by those countries and several others in the region.”

Source: New York Times February 08, 2017 02:00 UTC