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Florida’s CAIR vows lawsuit against DeSantis over ‘foreign terrorist’ label

CAIR challenges DeSantis's designation as symbolic and politically motivated amid rising anti-Muslim rhetoric, with similar moves in Texas stirring national debate.

  • On Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced it will sue after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis labelled it a `foreign terrorist` organisation and urged state agencies to act.
  • Amid rising Islamophobia, Republican lawmakers close to Donald Trump escalate anti-Muslim rhetoric, while Florida's move mirrors Texas Governor Greg Abbott's last month and DeSantis' last-year Muslim Brotherhood designation.
  • Legally, such `terrorist` designations can only come from the US State Department, and CAIR is a domestic group with dozens of CAIR chapters and no formal accusations of material support to terrorism.
  • DeSantis said he would `welcome` a lawsuit to subpoena bank records, while Hiba Rahim, interim executive director of CAIR's Florida chapter, vowed, `We welcome it as well, and we will see him in the courtroom,`
  • Given CAIR's litigation history, rights advocates say the measure aims to demonise Muslims and note challenges could reach the US Supreme Court.
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