I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3892 
To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on the 
designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organiza-
tion, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 3, 2015 
Mr. DIAZ-BALART (for himself, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mrs. 
BLACK, and Mr. POMPEO) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to 
Congress on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood 
as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Muslim Brotherhood 
Terrorist Designation Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Multiple countries have declared the Society 
of the Muslim Brothers (commonly known as the 
‘‘Muslim Brotherhood’’) a terrorist organization or 
proscribed the group from operating in their coun-
tries. 
(2) In 1980, following a wave of assassinations 
targeting government officials and the June 16, 
1979, massacre of 83 military cadets in Aleppo, the 
Government of Syria— 
(A) banned the Muslim Brotherhood from 
the country; and 
(B) made membership in the organization 
punishable by death. 
(3) In a February 14, 2003, court decision, the 
Russian Supreme Court— 
(A) described the Muslim Brotherhood as 
a terrorist organization; and 
(B) banned the organization from oper-
ating in Russia. 
(4) In 2013— 
(A) an Egyptian court banned the Muslim 
Brotherhood from Egypt; and 
(B) the Government of Egypt officially de-
clared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist orga-
nization. 
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(5) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia designated 
the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group on 
March 7, 2014. 
(6) The Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates 
has published a list of terrorist organizations, which 
includes the Muslim Brotherhood and its local affili-
ates. 
(7) On March 21, 2014, the Foreign Minister 
of Bahrain backed the terrorist designations of the 
Muslim Brotherhood by the United Arab Emirates 
and Saudi Arabia. 
(8) The Muslim Brotherhood, which was found-
ed in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, remains 
headquartered in Egypt but operates throughout the 
world. 
(9) The Muslim Brotherhood’s long-standing 
motto includes the following: ‘‘Allah is our objective. 
The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. 
Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our 
highest hope. [Allah is greater!]’’. 
(10) Hassan al-Banna, in a book entitled ‘‘The 
Way of Jihad’’, taught— 
(A) ‘‘Jihad is an obligation from Allah on 
every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor 
evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to 
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jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs 
and fighters in His way a splendid one. Only 
those who have acted similarly and who have 
modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their 
performance of jihad can join them in this re-
ward.’’; and 
(B) ‘‘Jihad [means] the fighting of the un-
believers, and involves all possible efforts that 
are necessary to dismantle the power of the en-
emies of Islam including beating them, plun-
dering their wealth, destroying their places of 
worship and smashing their idols.’’. 
(11) Hassan al-Banna also taught that ‘‘it is 
the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be domi-
nated’’, and thus that the mission of Islam, as inter-
preted and executed by the Muslim Brotherhood, 
must be ‘‘to impose [Islamic] law on nations and to 
extend its power to the entire planet’’. While al- 
Banna’s plan for accomplishing this mission was 
multifaceted, it centrally incorporated training for 
and the execution of violent jihad–terrorist oper-
ations. 
(12) In Richard P. Mitchell’s 1969 book on the 
history of the Muslim Brotherhood, entitled ‘‘The 
Society of Muslim Brothers’’, Professor Mitchell ex-
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