DHS Muslim Brotherhood Engagement Prohibition (HR5823)
Current understanding
HR5823 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit DHS from providing assistance to, or engaging with, organizations or individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, using the Holy Land Foundation unindicted co-conspirator list as a baseline for identifying covered entities. Civil rights implications include potential effects on Muslim-American advocacy and civil-society organizations that have historically been named on or linked to that list, raising questions about religious association, guilt-by-association concerns, and due process for designated entities. Proponents frame the measure as closing a national-security engagement gap; critics contend it risks broad religious profiling and chills First Amendment–protected association. Status: introduced.
Evidence log
- 2025-06-24 — Designate CAIR as a Terrorist Organization Act: cross-connection with cair-terrorist-designation: Both proposals target U.S. government engagement with organizations alleged to have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, using designation/prohibition mechanisms. (novelty: 2)
- 2016-08-02 — Naming the Enemy Within Homeland Security Act: cross-connection with empowering-local-partners-prevent-terrorism-2013: Both concern how DHS structures its engagement with community and religious organizations for counterterrorism purposes — one imposing a categorical prohibition on engagement with designated groups, the other mandating civil-rights review of DHS counterterrorism training. (novelty: 2)