"The Trump administration is apparently nearing a formal designation of the international Muslim Brotherhood, which is the ideological progenitor of modern radical Sunni Islamism throughout the world, as a terrorist group. To put it mildly, this is very, very, very long overdue. Why in the world would the U.S. be more reluctant than anti-Islamist Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain to designate an extremist Sunni organization a terrorist group? Indeed, the Counter Extremism Project describes the Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State as 'shar[ing] more than deep ideological underpinnings,' and further notes that the groups' 'similarities far outweigh their differences.'"