Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Nov. 18 that he was designating the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations.
The state-level designations authorize the state attorney general to shut down both of the organizations and bar them, as well as their affiliates, from acquiring land in Texas, according to the governor.
“The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world’,” Abbott said in a statement released by his office.
“The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable.”…