President Donald Trump intends to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Trump told Just The News on Sunday. “Final documents are being drawn.”

The president’s move against the Muslim Brotherhood comes less than a week after a similar move by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. On Tuesday, the Republican governor designated the group and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as “foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations.”

“The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’” said Abbott. “The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable.”

The council has contested and sued Texas over the designation.

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The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, has long been connected to violent extremist groups such as Hamas. In its 1988 charter, Hamas identifies itself as “one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.”

While Muslim Brotherhood groups in the West, including in the United States, have condemned the use of violence, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “it is almost always born of prudence, not principle.”

“The Brotherhood tends to be far more conservative than al-Qaeda or the Islamic State when calculating the probable cost of a turn toward violence. Its branches hesitate to risk the wrath of national governments. The Brotherhood also places a premium on remaining able to gradually promote its brand of Islam, especially within Muslim majority countries,” says a foundation brief on the Muslim Brotherhood written last month.

On Wednesday, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy released a 265-page report “mapping [the Muslim Brotherhood’s] ideological, institutional, and financial penetration into North America.” The report is an analysis of the brotherhood’s 100-year plan to infiltrate and subvert western governments and institutions to further the imperialistic goals of Islamism.

“This is not simply a political movement but a transnational ideological project that adapts itself to Western systems while working to undermine them. The Brotherhood has learned to use the very freedoms of democracy as tools to erode it from within, exploiting the tolerance and openness of liberal societies as strategic vulnerabilities,” said Dr. Charles Asher Small, founding director of the institute.