Gov. Abbott declares CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood terrorist groups

[Valletta]

The proclamation cites several reasons for the designations, alleging the groups pose a threat to the security and residents of Texas.
"The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’" said Governor Abbott. "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. Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. These radical extremists are not welcome in our state and are now prohibited from acquiring any real property interest in Texas."

Texas Governor Abbott bans Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR from owning land in Texas

The new designation immediately subjects both groups and their affiliates to heightened penalties and prohibits them from buying or acquiring land in Texas.

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We need to recognize these bad actors who hide by calling others Islamaphobics.

 

[Vambram]

Hopefully, the POTUS and the federal government will also designate those 2 organizations as terrorists.

 

[RileyG]

Hopefully, the POTUS and the federal government will also designate those 2 organizations as terrorists.

Agreed!

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

CAIR isn't a terrorist organization. It help Muslim with their rights. As for Brotherhood. I haven't looked into them.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

CAIR isn't a terrorist organization. It help Muslim with their rights. As for Brotherhood. I haven't looked into them.

They mention in the article why CAIR was given the designation

The proclamation refers to CAIR as an Islamist organization and cites the FBI as stating it was founded as a "front group" for "Hamas and its support network" in the United States.

The document lists several former CAIR staff, board members, or affiliates who were later convicted of terrorism or terrorism-related financing crimes.

• Ghassan Elashi, a founding board member of the Texas branch for CAIR and Treasurer of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, who was sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison for financing terrorism in 2009;
• Abdurahman Alamoudi, a speaker at a CAIR-sponsored anti-Israel rally in Washington, D.C., in October 2000, who proudly proclaimed himself to be a "supporter[] of Hamas" and "a supporter of Hizballah" and who was later convicted as a terrorist for funding Al-Qaeda;
• Randall Todd Royer, a communications specialist and civil rights coordinator for CAIR, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on April 9, 2004, for conspiring to aid Al-Qaeda and the Taliban;
• Bassem Khafagi, a community relations director for CAIR, who pleaded guilty to federal bank and visa fraud in 2003 after funneling money to terrorist causes and publishing material advocating suicide attacks against the United States;
• Rabih Haddad, a CAIR fundraiser, who was arrested and deported for his work as Executive Director of the Global Relief Foundation, which was closed by the United States Department of Treasury in October 2002 for financing Al-Qaeda;
• Muthanna al-Hanooti, a Director for CAIR in Michigan, who was convicted and sentenced to prison in 2011 for violating United States sanctions against Iraq by accepting "two million barrels of Iraqi oil" in exchange for helping Saddam Hussein's government;
• Sami Al-Arian, a convicted terrorist and Palestinian Islamic Jihad financier, whom CAIR publicly honored with its "Promoting Justice Award" in 2014 and whom it featured in a 2020 lecture in which he stressed his desire "to promote" CAIR and "support [it] financially" as "the first defense" in America; and
• Nihad Awad, CAIR's current Executive Director, who on November 24, 2023, publicly praised and supported Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack against Israel, saying he "was happy to see" the assault which involved the kidnapping and murder of American citizens.

Based on the leadership's actions, it would appear that "We're just here to help our people with their rights and help get them get acclimated if need be" is about as sincere as when those Chinese "overseas service stations" are stated to have the same benign consular mission statement, but they're actually covert bad actors for the CCP.