Florida’s DeSantis declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization Politics Dec 9, 2025 1:49 PM EST

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month.

The directive against the Council on American-Islamic Relations comes in an executive order DeSantis posted on the social media site X. It also gives the same label to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood is designat

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