On Monday, the White House officially rejected a “We the People” petition which called for declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Petitions must reach 100,000 signatures for the administration to respond. The petition, posted July 7, 2013, had acquired more than 200,000 by the time it was officially turned down.

The petition called on the White House to designate the group a terrorist organization, citing its "long history of violent killings & terrorizing oponents":

Muslim Brotherhood has a long history of violent killings & terrorizing opponents. Also MB has direct ties with most terrorist groups like Hamas.

A book by one of their prominent figures, Sayyid Qutb, called Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq is the bible for many terrorist groups.

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. This is terrorism.

We ask the US government to declare MB as a terrorist group for a safer future for all of us.

But the White House said Monday that it hasn’t seen “credible evidence” that the group has turned from its "decades-long commitment to non-violence”:

We have not seen credible evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood has renounced its decades-long commitment to non-violence.

The United States does not condone political violence of any kind and we continue to press actors of all viewpoints to peacefully engage in the political process. The United States is committed to thwarting terrorist groups that pose a threat to U.S. interests and those of our partners.

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