Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as a “foreign terrorist organization,” making Florida the second state, along with Texas, to do so. DeSantis' order states that CAIR has ties to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people.
DeSantis posted an executive order (Florida Executive Order 25-244) to social media Monday night, declaring both CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. The order said CAIR is an unofficial U.S. cover representing the Islamic community to conceal ties to Islamic extremist groups like Hamas, reported Tampa’s baynews9.com.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
In the executive order, DeSantis correctly stated that the Muslim Brotherhood — a transnational Sunni Islamist group founded in Egypt with offshoots that have been linked to past violent attacks — was attempting to establish “a world-wide Islamic caliphate” and noted that it has direct links to Hamas.
The Muslim Brotherhood is committed to the destruction of America and its submission, along with the rest of the world, to a global “caliphate” ruling according to Islam’s totalitarian Sharia code. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz brilliantly documented these ambitions in a short video entitled, “Inside the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Now, CAIR's Florida chapter announced a lawsuit challenging the order at a Tuesday press conference in Tampa, where Hiba Rahim, the chapter's interim executive director, in an at times almost tearful news conference, called the order "defamatory and unconstitutional."
"If you are truly American, America first, then you have to prioritize fighting against these types of attacks and standing with minority groups," Rahim said. "Whether they are Muslim community or any other minority group. Because today the Muslims, tomorrow, someone else."
She added: “To our Governor, your designation has no basis in law or fact. You do not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally declare any American or an American institution a foreign terrorist group. Nor is there any basis to level this smear against our organization.”
CAIR Florida has four regional offices in Florida: Tampa, South-Florida (Sunrise), Orlando, and Panama City. DeSantis told reporters on Tuesday that he welcomed the lawsuit because it could offer the state an opportunity to examine CAIR's financial records and other documents as part of legal discovery.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
"I welcome the lawsuit because what will happen is that will give the state of Florida discovery rights, (to) be able to subpoena the bank records," he said. "It would give us even more reason, I believe, and so this is something I know our attorney general is ready, willing and able to be fighting on this," reported Jeff Van Sant and Keith Landry of Spectrum News.
DeSantis says members of the legislature are crafting legislation to stop Sharia Law and that he hopes to codify these protections for Floridians against CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood in future legislation.
“I think you’re going to see the legislature probably mirror what Texas has done, and ultimately that’ s going be in the best interest of the [American] people," DeSantis said.
DeSantis’ order also named the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt, as a foreign terrorist organization.
The U.S. government has not designated CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, but President Donald Trump last month began the process of doing so for certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, reported Reuters.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
The Florida order instructs agencies to take action to prevent CAIR from receiving any state contracts, employment or funding.
DeSantis also noted in his remarks that CAIR, which uses claims of being a Muslim civil rights group to mask its anti-constitutional agenda, was “designated an unindicted co-conspirator” as part of “the largest terrorism-financing case in American history.”
For more on the Holy Land Foundation trial and CAIR’s role in financing Muslim terrorism see this FBI news release from 2008 and page 13 of this report.
The Tampa area has long been a hotbed of Muslim terrorist sympathizers and supporters.
Former University of South Florida “professor” Sami al-Arian, was convicted of supporting terrorism and deported, leaving behind a nest of Islamist sympathizers in Tampa. While al-Arian cheered on the riots on American college campuses from his overseas lair, his wife showed up at Columbia University to encourage the “occupation” of the University, before disappearing just before the police arrived to clear the mess and restore some semblance of order at the university.
CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood are not “radical” offshoots of Islam set against a benign mainstream. They are Sharia-adherent Muslims, and wherever Sharia is advanced as a supreme political-legal code individual rights are extinguished. That puts it on a collision course with the Constitution.
This has practical consequences. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. No competing legal code, such as Sharia, can be slipped into our system — openly or quietly — without violating that principle. Those who would impose that foreign legal code in place of the Constitution cannot honestly swear an oath to support and defend it. And advocating violent or subversive action to replace our constitutional government is a matter for criminal law.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com. A veteran of over 300 political campaigns, he served as a staff member or advance representative for some of America’s most recognized conservative political figures, including Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin and Jack Kemp. A member of American MENSA, he served on the House and Senate staff and on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle. Rasley is a graduate of Hanover College and studied international affairs at Oxford University's Worcester College. Rasley has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the Muslim world, including staffing Vice President Quayle on official visits to Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
DeSantis posted an executive order (Florida Executive Order 25-244) to social media Monday night, declaring both CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. The order said CAIR is an unofficial U.S. cover representing the Islamic community to conceal ties to Islamic extremist groups like Hamas, reported Tampa’s baynews9.com.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
In the executive order, DeSantis correctly stated that the Muslim Brotherhood — a transnational Sunni Islamist group founded in Egypt with offshoots that have been linked to past violent attacks — was attempting to establish “a world-wide Islamic caliphate” and noted that it has direct links to Hamas.
The Muslim Brotherhood is committed to the destruction of America and its submission, along with the rest of the world, to a global “caliphate” ruling according to Islam’s totalitarian Sharia code. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz brilliantly documented these ambitions in a short video entitled, “Inside the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Now, CAIR's Florida chapter announced a lawsuit challenging the order at a Tuesday press conference in Tampa, where Hiba Rahim, the chapter's interim executive director, in an at times almost tearful news conference, called the order "defamatory and unconstitutional."
"If you are truly American, America first, then you have to prioritize fighting against these types of attacks and standing with minority groups," Rahim said. "Whether they are Muslim community or any other minority group. Because today the Muslims, tomorrow, someone else."
She added: “To our Governor, your designation has no basis in law or fact. You do not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally declare any American or an American institution a foreign terrorist group. Nor is there any basis to level this smear against our organization.”
CAIR Florida has four regional offices in Florida: Tampa, South-Florida (Sunrise), Orlando, and Panama City. DeSantis told reporters on Tuesday that he welcomed the lawsuit because it could offer the state an opportunity to examine CAIR's financial records and other documents as part of legal discovery.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
"I welcome the lawsuit because what will happen is that will give the state of Florida discovery rights, (to) be able to subpoena the bank records," he said. "It would give us even more reason, I believe, and so this is something I know our attorney general is ready, willing and able to be fighting on this," reported Jeff Van Sant and Keith Landry of Spectrum News.
DeSantis says members of the legislature are crafting legislation to stop Sharia Law and that he hopes to codify these protections for Floridians against CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood in future legislation.
“I think you’re going to see the legislature probably mirror what Texas has done, and ultimately that’ s going be in the best interest of the [American] people," DeSantis said.
DeSantis’ order also named the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt, as a foreign terrorist organization.
The U.S. government has not designated CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, but President Donald Trump last month began the process of doing so for certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, reported Reuters.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
The Florida order instructs agencies to take action to prevent CAIR from receiving any state contracts, employment or funding.
DeSantis also noted in his remarks that CAIR, which uses claims of being a Muslim civil rights group to mask its anti-constitutional agenda, was “designated an unindicted co-conspirator” as part of “the largest terrorism-financing case in American history.”
For more on the Holy Land Foundation trial and CAIR’s role in financing Muslim terrorism see this FBI news release from 2008 and page 13 of this report.
The Tampa area has long been a hotbed of Muslim terrorist sympathizers and supporters.
Former University of South Florida “professor” Sami al-Arian, was convicted of supporting terrorism and deported, leaving behind a nest of Islamist sympathizers in Tampa. While al-Arian cheered on the riots on American college campuses from his overseas lair, his wife showed up at Columbia University to encourage the “occupation” of the University, before disappearing just before the police arrived to clear the mess and restore some semblance of order at the university.
CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood are not “radical” offshoots of Islam set against a benign mainstream. They are Sharia-adherent Muslims, and wherever Sharia is advanced as a supreme political-legal code individual rights are extinguished. That puts it on a collision course with the Constitution.
This has practical consequences. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. No competing legal code, such as Sharia, can be slipped into our system — openly or quietly — without violating that principle. Those who would impose that foreign legal code in place of the Constitution cannot honestly swear an oath to support and defend it. And advocating violent or subversive action to replace our constitutional government is a matter for criminal law.
To add your voice to the calls to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR at the federal level click this link.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com. A veteran of over 300 political campaigns, he served as a staff member or advance representative for some of America’s most recognized conservative political figures, including Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin and Jack Kemp. A member of American MENSA, he served on the House and Senate staff and on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle. Rasley is a graduate of Hanover College and studied international affairs at Oxford University's Worcester College. Rasley has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the Muslim world, including staffing Vice President Quayle on official visits to Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
