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Gov. Greg Abbott declared CAIR, a major Muslim civil rights group, a terrorist organization—a designation the U.S. government has not made.

CAIR accused Abbott of lacking authority and stoking “anti-Muslim hysteria,” arguing his proclamation has “no basis in law or fact.”

The proclamation follows Republican efforts to block a Muslim-centered planned community near Dallas and a state law Abbott signed restricting foreign land acquisitions.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday declared one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization” under a proclamation that he said allows the state to try shutting them down.

He also

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