Florida, CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood
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The governors of Texas and Florida have declared the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group a foreign terrorist organization, but they may stand alone. None of their Republican counterparts in other states seem ready to follow suit.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a lawsuit over an executive order issued last week that designates the group as a terrorist organization.
The version approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee lacks the teeth of the original House bill as well as the current legislation in the Senate,’ an official at a pro-Israel group said
President Donald Trump ordered his administration to study labeling some parts of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, a step toward fulfilling his longtime goal of slapping the designation on the broader group.
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced his intention to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, citing the
‘They took out the “designation” part of the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act,’ Cruz said
Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Monday evening designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
In a seismic policy shift after decades of Western indifference, the Trump administration has moved to designate key chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. Bill Roggio is joined by FDD’s Edmund Fitton-Brown,