Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has labeled Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as a “bigot” unfit for elected office as the far right politician goes on an Islamophobic spree targeting Muslim communities across his state.

“Greg Abbot called CAIR [the Council on American-Islamic Relations], the largest Muslim civil rights organization, a ‘terrorist organization’ and said Muslims are a ‘threat to our freedom.’ The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile,” Omar said in a post on social media on Wednesday.

“This bigot should have no place in elected office,” she went on.

On Tuesday, Abbott’s office announced that it was attempting to label the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as “foreign terrorist organizations.” With the label, he claimed, he could bar the groups from purchasing or acquiring lan

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