Flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan, and other political parties are waved during a protest in Amman, Jordan, June 21, 2019.(Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images)

Two data points from this past week alone compel us to closely examine, once more, the role and reach of the Islamist organization.

Why is there a Muslim Brotherhood?

It’s a basic question. How frustrating that it still needs asking over a half century after the ascent of sharia supremacism began in American universities, and after the ties that now bind Islamists with the radical base of the Democratic Party were first forged.

This week, two data points once again bring the question to the fore.

First, Pew reports that Hamas is quite popular among American Muslims. Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch, been designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States since 1997 -- one of federal law’s first such designations, even ...

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