Texas Governor Greg Abbott has stepped up to meet the moment in the battle against the Islamization of America and designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations.
This designation authorizes heightened enforcement against both organizations and their affiliates and prohibits them from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas.
Click here to read Governor Abbott’s Proclamation in its entirety.
“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.”
Neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor CAIR is listed on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist groups.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a multinational organization with no central figure. It was founded in 1928 in Egypt. Earlier this year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the Trump administration was considering designating the group or branches of the group as terrorist organizations but has not.
CAIR’s origins can be traced to Middle East based groups the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Federal court records from the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial identified CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator, according to legal documents which found “ample evidence” connecting CAIR to the Palestine Committee, a US-based group founded by the Muslim Brotherhood to advance Hamas, according to the report.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been designated a terrorist organization by several countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, and Russia. Austria has also banned the group under a specific anti-terrorism law related to "religiously motivated crime.” It seems reasonable to us to act on their evidence, especially given that Muslim nations know the Muslim Brotherhood threat all too well from attacks against their own governments.
And there is plenty of justification for Governor Abbott’s designation of CAIR as a terrorist organization, although CAIR claims to be a Muslim civil rights group. Interestingly enough, the organization issued a statement saying they have consistently condemned all forms of “unjust” violence, leaving us to wonder exactly what kind of “just” violence they have planned in Texas.
Perhaps it will be similar to what its sister organization in California did: Anti-Israel agitators who spread disruption at US colleges and were punished by authorities were awarded checks for $1,000 by a Muslim nonprofit, The New York Post reported.
The money was given to students who faced penalties for leading pro-Palestinian protests before and after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 2023, according to a bombshell report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN).
The cash was awarded from a “Champions of Justice Fund,” set up by the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) as “institutional endorsement,” the report claims.
In California, the largest arm of the CAIR web of nonprofits, affiliates in San Francisco and Los Angeles raised more than $100,000 in donations for campus radicals, while the main group solicited $64,000 in donations, records reported by the New York Post show.
CAIR California’s “pay to riot” plan is eerily similar to the “pay to slay” payments Muslim terrorist organizations pay to jihadis and their families if they are killed or incarcerated in an attack on Israel or other Jewish targets.
That means students suspended or expelled from Columbia University for storming and occupying the university’s Hamilton Hall, barricading themselves inside the building with furniture and padlocks on April 30, 2024 — an incident which resulted in the building having to be stormed by police — could have potentially qualified for the $1,000 checks.
“These programs support students after acts of criminality and violence, creating a reward structure for building the most militant face of the movement. This is how ideologies metastasize,” NCRI founder Joel Finkelstein warned to The New York Post.
Separately, CAIR-CA is under probe by the Department of Justice, according to IAN, and the California Fair Political Practices Commission over alleged financial misrepresentation of federal funds.
In one instance, the charity took $7.2 million in taxpayer cash intended to settle impoverished immigrants in California between 2022 and 2024.
The cash, which was intended to assist 1,800 Afghan refugees, only helped 177 Afghan refugees from 2021 to 2023, less than 10% percent of the total it was meant to serve, according to the report.
Much of the money could not be accounted for within CAIR’s official filings, reviewed by The New York Post.
The Texas Tribune reported Abbott’s proclamation cites a new law that was approved by the Texas lawmakers earlier this year. The bill gave Abbott more power to ban property ownership by governmental entities, companies, and individuals from a country named in annual threat assessment reports prepared by the director of national security.
A similar law in Florida is making its way through the courts. A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing the state to enforce its ban.
Nearly 50 mosques have been set up in Texas in the past 24 months, in many cases using taxpayer funds to do so. The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and allied groups have targeted Texas as the crucial prize in their cultural and civilization jihad against the West, because if Texas goes down, America goes down.
Governor Abbott’s next challenge will be to use his new powers and this proclamation stop the construction of two immense “Sharia cities” being planned for Texas, and being well-advanced in those plans we might add.
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.
