Americans upset over the federal government’s continued aid to Egypt’s terrorist led government have forced the White House into publicly addressing the issue thanks to a “We the People” petition.
The petition, which asks for the Muslim Brotherhood organization to be declared a terrorist group, has gathered more than 136,000 signatures in less than one month, easily surpassing the bar of 100,000 signatures needed for an official response.
The petition references the organization’s “long history of violent killings and terrorizing opponents” and calls out the Islamic organization for it’s ties to the Islamic terrorist group 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,” the petition reads. “This is terrorism.”
As of Thursday morning the petition asking the “U.S. government to declare MB as a terrorist group for a safer future for all of us” had not received a response.
The United States has continued to supply $1.5 billion of aid, which includes military assistance, to Egypt, despite their government’s instability. The Egyptian military ousted the country’s first freely elected civilian president, Mohamed Morsi, on July 3, leaving the Obama administration struggling to define the military takeover as a coup or not.
