Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed an executive order designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a foreign terrorist organization. The executive order, an unprecedented step at the state level, declares a connection between the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as the primary justification for the designation.

The Florida order specifically targets CAIR as a domestic faction of the Muslim Brotherhood. It draws a historical link to the Brotherhood’s founding in Egypt in 1928 and states that the broader organization ideology is, in the state’s view: “irreconcilable with foundational American principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, especially including the right to

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