Inbox: After @GovRonDeSantis declared CAIR a foreign terrorist organization by executive order, its Florida chapter & the national HQ says they are suing. https://t.co/cID2p1jSQp pic.twitter.com/DpnJIQSpyY
— Jim Rosica (@JimRosicaFL) December 9, 2025
I first learned about @RonDeSantis almost a decade ago when he was chairing a congressional committee pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and its vast network as a terrorist organization.
— BJDichter - HonkingForFreedom.com (@BJdichter) December 9, 2025
Government moves slowly and deliberately by design and that's a feature, not a bug.…
[IsraelTimes] Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Monday designating one of the US’s most prominent Muslim groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as a “foreign terrorist organization,” becoming the second high-profile Republican governor to do so in recent weeks.
As with the ban imposed last month by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
, DeSantis’s order also named the Moslem Brüderbund, founded in Egypt, as a foreign terrorist organization. Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...began as the movement’s Paleostinian arm.
The Florida executive order’s text accuses the Moslem Brüderbund of supporting terror, being linked to Hamas and opposing American values. And it accuses CAIR of being tied to the Brotherhood and of having its own links to terrorism.
"[T]he Moslem Brüderbund’s Islamist ideology is irreconcilable with foundational American principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," the order says, adding that the group "supports a network of chapters and affiliated political entities and front organizations that engage in terrorism or funnel money to finance terrorist activities."
It adds that "members of the Moslem Brüderbund created Hamas in 1987, the primary goal of which is the destruction of the State of Israel and the eradication of Jews in their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria," the biblical term for the West Bank.
CAIR, it says, "was founded by persons connected to the Moslem Brüderbund." It adds that "individuals associated with CAIR have been convicted of providing, and conspiring to provide, material support to designated terrorist organizations."
The Florida order instructs agencies to take action to prevent CAIR from receiving any state contracts, employment or funding. CAIR has challenged Abbott’s declaration in federal court as an unconstitutional effort to punish the organization simply because of its views. CAIR was expected to announce a separate lawsuit against Florida later on Tuesday.
"From the moment Ron DeSantis took office as Florida governor, he has prioritized serving the Israeli government over serving the people of Florida," CAIR said in a statement on Monday. "Like Greg Abbott in Texas, Ron DeSantis is an Israel First politician who wants to smear and silence Americans, especially American Moslems, critical of US support for Israel’s war crimes."
It added, "We look forward to defeating Governor DeSantis’ latest Israel First stunt in a court of law, where facts matter and conspiracy theories have no weight."
CAIR was founded in 1994 and has chapters in nearly two dozen US states. It says that it has a consistent record of opposing terror groups, and condemned violence against civilians in the days following the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which killed some 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage, launching the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
But weeks later, the group’s executive director, Nihad Awad, praised the October 7 attack.
"The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege — the walls of the concentration camp — on October 7," Awad said.
DeSantis’s action comes weeks after US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
signed an executive order directing the US secretaries of state and treasury to consider whether certain chapters of the Moslem Brüderbund should be designated as terror organizations.
"The order’s ultimate aim is to eliminate the designated chapters’ capabilities and operations, deprive them of resources, and end any threat such chapters pose to US nationals and the national security of the United States," read a statement from the White House.
Trump’s announcement spurred Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pledge that Israel will complete its own process of outlawing the Moslem Brüderbund.
That declaration, in turn, led Ra’am party leader Mansour Abbas to accuse the premier of "trying to steal the election" due to take place next year, in light of the links between Ra’am’s parent movement and the Moslem Brüderbund.
Abbas has repeatedly denied that his party is connected to the Brotherhood. This week, Abbas said that the party will separate from the religious council that it is linked to and establish its own institutions. The move appeared to be aimed at distancing the Islamist political party from hardline Moslem organizations in order to boost its legitimacy among Zionist Israeli parties.