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- Devlin Barrett and Alan Feuer @ The New York Times: With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue
A seven-figure settlement is announced two days before a scheduled Senate committee vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.
- Nicholas Gutteridge @ Texas Monthly: Greg Abbott’s CAIR Terrorist Designation Looks Awfully Similar to an Anti-Muslim Think Tank’s Work
Months before the governor’s proclamation, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy emailed DPS a report that levies similar evidence against the Muslim civil rights group.
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In late November 2025, Governor Greg Abbott celebrated kicking off his fourth campaign for the state’s highest office by calling in to the daily run of The Mark Davis Show, a North Texas radio broadcast popular with conservatives. The discussion quickly moved to what Abbott and host Mark Davis perceived to be radical Islam infiltrating Texas communities. “No governor in America has done as much as I have to address this problem,” Abbott told Davis. “Your religion cannot become a threat to our freedom.” Then, live on the air, Abbott announced what would become the headline of the day: He had just issued a proclamation designating two organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights group in the U.S., “foreign terrorist organizations” and “transnational criminal organizations.”
Indeed, Abbott’s proclamation is provocative. The document lists evidence that Abbott says justifies the designation—in one statement, he claims that the FBI has called CAIR a “front group” for Hamas. It’s a statement the leadership of CAIR rejects. And it’s a claim for which Abbott provided no source. Online, on the far-right corners of the internet, some sources posit that the quote was said during a 2008 federal trial in which a charity was convicted of funding Hamas—but after a few days spent searching through the trial transcripts, I found that no FBI agent called CAIR a “front group” for Hamas.
- Noel Sims and Rebecca Crosby @ Popular Information: The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade
So why does the Trump administration care so much about controlling the Smithsonian Institution? One factor: the influence of right-wing Christian nationalist “historian” David Barton and his son Tim.
- Kyle Clark @ 9 News: Victor Marx hunts for demons, and votes, in the race for Colorado Governor
The ministry leader says casting off evil spirits is his greatest achievement, but his exorcisms have drawn questions and criticism.
- Leonardo Blair @ The Christian Post: Greg Locke reveals congregation down to few hundred followers
Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke, who is under federal investigation for allegedly misappropriating church funds, says his “tent” church, which drew up to 3,000 people in its heyday, is now down to a few hundred in the wake of his ongoing challenges.
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The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today expressed serious concerns regarding the recently unsealed indictments arising from protests at the University of Michigan, warning that while allegations of criminal conduct should be addressed through the judicial process, charging documents should not blur the line between alleged unlawful acts and constitutionally protected political expression, peaceful protest, and advocacy on matters of public concern.
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Liz Crampton and Jessica Piper: 01/26/2026
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Anti-Muslim rhetoric has emerged as a potent ingredient in the looming Texas Republican primary while candidates compete to raise fears about the spread of Sharia law in the state and portray themselves as the toughest option to stand against it.
From the state’s white-hot GOP Senate primary down to local races, Republican candidates are pledging to fight the hardest against a proposed residential development of 1,000 homes centered around a Mosque north of Dallas, while issuing dire warnings about the supposed threat of Islam and questioning their opponents’ commitment to the cause.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and his top primary opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, have sparred in attack ads and on the trail over that project and Afghan refugee resettlement program, at times veering into inflammatory anti-Islamic rhetoric. Cornyn called for a federal investigation into the project; Paxton launched several probes and in December sued the development over alleged securities fraud.
Texas is a heavily diverse state, with non-Hispanic whites representing less than two fifths of its total population — a flashpoint for years on the right. The state’s relatively small but fast-growing Muslim population has become a charged issue for Republicans seeking to distinguish themselves in competitive races. This year’s GOP ads – which vary from condemning terror attacks to burning the Quran – represent an escalation of rhetoric the party has long used to rally its voters.
“The Muslim community is the boogeyman for this cycle,” said Texas GOP consultant Vinny Minchillo. “One hundred percent this message works — there’s no question about it. This has been polled up one side and down the other, and with Texas Republican primary voters, it works. It is a thing they are legitimately scared of.”
Muslim advocacy organizations and Democrats decry the ads as racist and grossly inaccurate characterizations of those communities.
“The Texas GOP has declared war on Islam in Texas, claiming that Islamic leaders in the state are implementing Sharia law and using it in court,” said Joel Montfort, a north Texas-based Democratic strategist. “None of it is true, it is just fearmongering and racism to stir up the GOP base and get them to vote.”
A POLITICO review identified ads in half a dozen races since the start of 2025 that highlighted “Sharia law,” according to data from AdImpact, which tracks political advertising. All were from or backing Republican candidates touting their fights against it, and most were common in Texas.
Last week, Cornyn launched a seven-figure
buy titled “Evil Face” that declares “radical Islam is a bloodthirsty ideology,” referencing the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel and December Bondi Beach shooting in Australia. The ad also references his bill to revoke the tax-exempt status of Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy organization.
Paxton has gone after Cornyn’s past support of an Afghan refugee resettlement program. And in his capacity as attorney general, Paxton said the project is an “illegal land development scheme” and its leaders are “engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets.”
In the four-way GOP race for Texas attorney general, candidate Aaron Reitz says in an ad out this week that “Islam is not compatible with Western civilization” and vows to “stop the invasion” of Muslims. Reitz served less than a year in the Justice Department before launching his bid for attorney general. His opponent, state Sen. Mayes Middleton, also has an ad boasting that he’s running to “stop Sharia law” in Texas.
And, most provocatively, Valentina Gomez launched her candidacy in Texas’ 31st Congressional District last year with a video showing her burning a Quran and declaring that “your daughters will be raped and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all.” Gomez, who is challenging President Donald Trump-endorsed Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), is a known conservative activist and provocateur who won just 8 percent of the primary vote when she ran for Missouri secretary of state last year.
Anti-muslim sentiment in the U.S. grew out of the 9/11 terror attacks, which some Republicans used to rally their base for political gain. False rumors on the right that Barack Hussein Obama was a secret Muslim persisted from his rise to the White House and for years after. The planned construction of a mosque blocks from Ground Zero became a right-wing cause celebre early in his presidency, with multiple national Republican figures rallying against it.
Trump intensified those feelings, first by elevating conspiracy theories that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., then by repeatedly disparaging Muslims, pledging in his 2016 campaign to ban Muslims from entering the country and once he became president implementing travel bans against majority-Muslim countries. On Tuesday, Trump reposted a comment calling Islam a “cult.”
But in recent years Islam hasn’t been as much of a focus within GOP campaigns — until now.
The Texas ads come as Republicans nationwide have placed heightened scrutiny on CAIR, the largest Muslim advocacy group in the U.S. Sameeha Rizvi, CAIR Action Texas Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, called Cornyn’s ad “defamatory and despicable” and borne out of “desperation to compete with Ken Paxton’s anti-Muslim bigotry.”
“CAIR is not going anywhere, American Muslims are not going anywhere, and our community will show its strength at the ballot box, God willing,” Rizvi said in a statement.
Cornyn has introduced legislation seeking to revoke CAIR’s tax-exempt status. U.S. Rep Chip Roy, who is also in the Texas attorney general race, introduced a similar bill last year.
When a super PAC on behalf of Cornyn launched an attack against Paxton on Thursday, calling him “weird” and highlighting his divorce and alleged extramarital affairs, Paxton shot back on X : “This desperate hail mary can’t erase the fact that he [Cornyn] helped radical Islamic Afghans invade Texas and that his family’s making a fortune securing visas for foreigners.”
Paxton was referencing Cornyn’s past support for increasing the number of Special Immigrant Visas available to Afghans following the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of the country. Cornyn, who had once been supportive of the program, reversed course along with other Republicans late last year following the shooting of two National Guard members by an Afghan who’d been granted asylum in the U.S., on the basis that the vetting of applicants was inadequate.
Cornyn has responded to Paxton’s attacks with a
stating that Paxton talks tough but he’s actually “soft on radical Islam,” claiming that Paxton directed $2.5 million to resettle Afghan refugees in Texas, and his former attorney who defended him during impeachment proceedings now represents the East Plano Islamic Center.
Several ads from different candidates in Texas use footage of the project from the East Plano Islamic Center, which would also feature a K-12 school and retail. Texas leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, have said that the presence of the planned Muslim community raises national security concerns. The East Plano Islamic Center did not respond to a request for comment.
“Texans overwhelmingly care about this – they’re looking at their communities transform in radical ways,” said Reitz, the attorney general candidate.
“You look at the number of mosques that have been built in Texas in just the last 10 to 20 years, and it’s explosive,” he said. “It’s alarming for good reason, and I think that Republican voters in particular are looking for their public office holders to address it, and so it’s such a pressing issue that I chose to really lean into this.”
Cornyn’s ad declares that “Sharia law has no place in American courts or communities,” a reference to the development. Trump’s Justice Department also launched a civil rights investigation into the project last year after Cornyn requested the federal government to investigate “religious discrimination.”
The project was already on the radar of Paxton, who had opened his first of several probes into its construction. In December, Paxton — whose candidacy is boosted by his reputation as an aggressive attorney general who frequently files lawsuits on behalf of MAGA causes — sued the development for alleged securities fraud.
The Justice Department quietly closed its investigation last summer without filing any charges. But Abbott still went forward and signed multiple laws last year that banned “Sharia compounds” and designating CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. CAIR sued Texas in response, arguing the action was unconstitutional and defamatory.
Paxton, in his official capacity as attorney general, said last week that the state comptroller can exclude private schools from the school voucher program if they violate the recently signed anti-terror laws, declaring that “Texans’ tax dollars should never fund Islamic terrorists or America’s enemies.”
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An effort by Rep. Nancy Mace (R‑S.C.) to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D‑Minn.) failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday night.
The resolution, which was introduced in response to Omar reposting a video and making remarks related to right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s murder last week, was tabled by a vote of 214‑213. Four Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing the resolution.
The Republicans who opposed the resolution were Reps. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.), Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) and Mike Flood (R-Neb.)
If passed, the resolution would have formally censured Omar and removed her from some committee assignments.
Following the failure of her censure motion, Mace took to social mediato attack her Republican colleagues who opposed the move.
In a series of post on the social platform X, she wrote: "4 Republicans sold out tonight. They sided with Democrats to protect Ilhan Omar. A woman who mocked the assassination of an innocent American husband and father."
She added: "In 210 Democrats and 4 Republicans (Mike Flood, Jeff Hurd, Tom McClintock, and Cory Mills) just sided with Ilhan Omar over Charlie Kirk. They voted to shield a woman who mocked the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk… A woman who belittled his grieving family…"
"They showed us exactly who they are. Never forget it," Mace wrote.
Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., welcomed the development.
In a statement released to media, it declared the outcome "a victory against racism and political repression," but added that "the fight is not over."
"Rep. Mace and her allies may seek to bring the measure back to the floor in the future. Earlier today, CAIR sent a formal letter to all members of the House urging them to oppose the resolution, which falsely accused Rep. Omar of celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk - despite her repeatedly condemning his murder and offering sympathy to his family," CAIR stated.
“Instead of targeting Rep. Omar, Republican and Democratic leaders should consider holding accountable bigots like Rep. Randy Fine and Rep. Brian Mast, and even Rep. Mace herself - who in recent days said Rep. Omar should go back to Somalia and told a Jewish colleague they should see a plastic surgeon for their nose," the statement read.
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Religious organizations are slamming a Republican House probe, calling it a violation of their liberty, reports Religion News Service.
“It’s an invasion of religious liberty,” said Bishop Dwayne Royster, a United Church of Christ pastor who heads Faith in Action. Royster argues his group reserves the right to practice a form of faith “which says that there’s no strangers amongst us, that we’re all siblings.”
But Royster said Reps. Mark E. Green (R-Tenn.) and Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) were anything but friends when they announced plans to probe more than 200 nongovernmental organizations earlier this month. The congressmen are accusing their targets of being “involved in providing services or support to inadmissible aliens during the Biden-Harris administration’s historic border crisis.”
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Royster told Religion News the probe was “designed to have a chilling effect” on organizations like Faith in Action. He added: “I will be damned if they’re going to stop us from doing what we feel mandated and called to do by God: To care for other human beings to the best of our ability.”
The chairmen are requesting each non-governmental organization complete a survey of questions about government grants, contracts, and disbursements they received, lawsuits they are petitioning and amicus briefs they have filed in any lawsuit brought against the federal government. The survey also demands organizations reveal any legal service, translation service, transportation, housing, sheltering, or any other form of assistance they’ve provided to non-citizen residents or unaccompanied non-citizen children since January 2021.
Green and Breechen, who chair the House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability, expressly targeted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities USA, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Global Refuge for the probe. But a list provided to Religion News Service indicates more than 30 religious groups have received the lawmakers' letter.
Royster said the questionnaire wasn’t relevant to Faith in Action’s work, and said he had no intention of responding to it.
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Unitarian Universalist Association general counsel Adrienne K. Walker denied her denomination receiving any grants, contracts or disbursements from the Biden administration, and she criticized the probe as appearing “to target the UUA and its members’ fundamental rights to exercise their religious practices protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' spokesperson Chieko Noguchi said USCCB plans to respond to the survey but argues that the USCCB has a 45-year agreement with the federal government to serve groups of people authorized by that same government to receive assistance.
Read the full Religion News Service report at this link.
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Racist questions are asked as Arab American rights leader testifies at hearing
September 20, 2024
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, about a contentious exchange at a Senate hearing on hate crimes.
LEILA FADEL, HOST:
A Senate committee hearing on hate crimes this week turned, well, hateful. The Senate Judiciary Committee called in experts who testified about protecting marginalized communities, including Jewish, Muslim and Arab Americans. One of those experts was Maya Berry. She's executive director of the Arab American Institute, a civil rights organization. And during her testimony, she was verbally attacked. Here's the exchange with Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana.
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MAYA BERRY: I do not support Hamas. I do not support Hamas or any...
JOHN NEELY KENNEDY: You can't bring yourself to say you don't support UNRWA, you don't support Hamas...
BERRY: I was very clear in my support for UNRWA.
KENNEDY: ...You don't support Hezbollah and you don't support Iran. You should hide your head in a bag.
FADEL: To talk about this, were joined by the woman you just heard, Maya Berry. Thanks for being on the program.
BERRY: Thank you for having me, Leila.
FADEL: Why is he asking you these questions?
BERRY: Regrettably, some members of Congress decided to sort of have this distraction that focused on foreign policy, and specifically Israel, to, I guess, make some point, but in the process, directly harmed communities. The direct attack was obviously racist and sexist. But frankly, it's not just the exchange with Senator Kennedy. The exchanges with some of the other members on that side of the aisle were profoundly confusing.
They were introduced foreign policy conversations and furthering, really, the dehumanization of Arab Americans, and specifically Palestinians, in an extraordinary way. And the point is that we have seen an increase in hate. We've seen an increase in antisemitism. We've seen an increase in the Latino community being targeted, Asian Americans being targeted, the LGBT community. Like, it's a record-breaking year after year targeting all communities. So it's extraordinary to take that and turn it into a conversation like some members chose to do.
FADEL: These sort of tropes about dual loyalties that hurt Jewish American communities, Arab American communities, American Muslims and other communities in this country, this is exactly the type of bigotry you're trying to talk about. And then you're dealing with it from congresspeople.
BERRY: I mean, very much so. And I would point out that part of the dehumanization of Arabs and Palestinians in particular is not even just, say, a dual loyalty to a country. It's this bizarre sense of a desire to support violence.
FADEL: As if being Muslim or Arab means you are supportive of violence?
BERRY: Yes. What's unfortunate is that some members of that committee couldn't see me as an expert witness to have that discussion. Instead, I was an Arab American sitting before them. That meant that they had to reduce me and dehumanize me in such a way that the conversation needed to land for them where it did.
FADEL: This is a specific hearing on hate crimes, but there's been other confirmation hearings where you're hearing tropes or racism - a Senate confirmation hearing for an American judge who happened to be Muslim, of Pakistani origin, who ended up getting foreign policy questions.
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TED CRUZ: Do you condemn the atrocities of the Hamas terrorists?
ADEEL MANGI: Yes, that's what I was about to address, Senator.
FADEL: And then there was that famous TikTok questioning where Tom Cotton is asking the CEO of TikTok if he was ever a citizen of China.
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TOM COTTON: Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?
SHOU ZI CHEW: Senator, I'm Singaporean. No.
FADEL: So I guess my larger question is, between what happened to you and these other examples, what does that say about the point of these hearings?
BERRY: There is a very real problem with our policymakers right now and the kind of behavior that they're engaging in. Listen, I'm not happy with what I experienced on behalf of my community and specifically Palestinian Americans. I was there to talk about Wadea. I was there to talk about the three students in Vermont who were victimized for speaking Arabic. They were shot for speaking Arabic and wearing a keffiyeh. I was there to raise the issue of a young man in Brooklyn who was asked - are you a Jew? - before he was attacked before a baseball bat.
That's the kind of hatred that we're seeing in the backlash effect post-October 7. And the response must be that, yes, we convene hearings to discuss hate crimes. We do more of that. But it must also reject the kind of bigotry that we saw. I took no comfort in sitting in that chair at all, and it was really disappointing. But it did at least point to the problem at hand and highlight anti-Arab racism, and specifically the dehumanization of Palestinians, in a very real and meaningful way for everyone to see.
FADEL: Maya Berry is the executive director of the civil rights organization the Arab American Institute. Thank you for joining us.
BERRY: Thank you so much for having us.
FADEL: We reached out to Senator Kennedy's office for comment, and we haven't heard back.
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Laura Loomer Tried to Sue CAIR and Failed Miserably
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The idea that the Brotherhood dominates Muslim American life serves a critical bridging point in counter-jihadist ideology. It is the only possible explanation for why, despite sharia’s supposed mandate to violence and domination, Muslim Americans are not all that violent. It’s not that they don’t believe in “Islamic supremacism” (a favored counter-jihadist term); it’s that they’re more strategic about it than the dummies in al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Militant groups can be bombed and killed. But stealth jihadists cannot: They wield Western commitments to free speech and political tolerance as a shield, allowing them to build up Muslim strength in the West without meaningful opposition.
Counter-jihadists latch onto any evidence of links between Muslim civic society and the Muslim Brotherhood to buttress this theory, wrenching quotes from Muslim leaders out of context and casting fringe figures as leading Muslim authorities.
Take their strongest and most commonly cited piece of evidence: a 2007 Justice Department case against the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity in the Dallas area that was diverting some of its donations to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
This is the most significant and largest case of a terror-funding operation using an American Muslim civic group as a front. The Akram memo was uncovered during the HLF investigation.
But in addition to the five leaders of the HLF who were actually convicted in the case, more than 246 individuals and Muslim groups, including ISNA and CAIR, were named as “unindicted co-conspirators” in the indictment — meaning the prosecutors believed they were linked to HLF’s scheme but couldn’t prove it.
They couldn’t prove it because they had no real evidence for this claim. ISNA and CAIR later filed a suit alleging that the prosecutors had unjustifiably damaged their reputation by mentioning them in the indictment. Their evidence was that counter-jihadists were using it to smear them, and the court agreed.
“There is no real dispute that CAIR suffered injury to its reputational interest by being listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in this terrorism case. Press accounts and blog entries have reported, based on this case, that CAIR is a criminal organization that supports terrorism,”the presiding judge ruled. “The government has not argued or established any legitimate government interest that warrants publicly identifying CAIR and 245 other individuals and entities as unindicted co-conspirators.”
Now a faction in the Trump administration,reportedly led by Flynn, is pushing to do the same thing by executive fiat — to add the Muslim Brotherhood to the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.But, as with the Akram memo, the counter-jihadists have not stopped using the HLF case as proof that America’s largest Muslim organizations are part of a stealth jihad. Multiple Republican members of Congress have parroted these accusations, most notably when they accused Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin of having ties tothe Muslim Brotherhood. Sen. Ted Cruz, a frequent speaker at CSP events, has repeatedly pushed legislation labelingthe Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group — a key recommendation in both Spencer’s book and the Team B II report.
The State Department reportedly opposes this move as illegal. A new CIA memo, reported by Politico, warns that it would boost ISIS and al-Qaeda recruiting. Virtually every expert on the Muslim Brotherhood thinks it would be unworkable and unwise.
Despite all this, the New York Times reports that the move has broad support in the White House. This should be no surprise: Both Attorney General Sessions and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, while in Congress, co-sponsored Cruz’s bill.
“There are organizations and networks here in the United States tied to radical Islam in deep and fundamental ways,” Pompeo told Gaffney in a February 2015 interview on the latter’s radio program. “They’re not just in places like Libya and Syria and Iraq, but in places like Coldwater, Kansas, and small towns all throughout America.”
Bannon has long been warning of the threat from the Muslim Brotherhood and stealth jihad; in 2007, he wrote a documentary script proposal specifically calling CAIR and ISNA "cultural jihadists" secretly working to build “an Islamic Republic in the United States.” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, in a2016 interview with Bannon, warned of “an explanatory memorandum” uncovered in the Holy Land Foundation trial telling Muslims “to infiltrate, to multiply, to gain positions of power, and to commit what they call ‘civilization jihad.’”
Officially labeling the Brotherhood a terrorist group, an odd step given that the Brotherhood has not been linked to a terrorist attack in decades, takes on much darker tones when viewed through a counter-jihadist light. Remember, counter-jihadists think the majority of Muslim American groups in the United States are Brotherhood fronts. It’s illegal for any American to provide assistance to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
This, then, could set the stage for a massive federal inquisition into America’s major Muslim organizations based on counter-jihadist conspiracy theories. The text of the Cruz-Sessions-Pompeo bill refers to CAIR and ISNA as “United States-Muslim Brotherhood affiliates,” citing the Holy Land case. Gaffney toldBloomberg View’s Eli Lake that "CAIR is one of the organizations [prosecutors] would have to look at” if the Brotherhood were designated a terrorist group.
Spencer told me that the solution to the stealth jihad was to “enforce existing laws regarding sedition and subversion,” adding that “Muslim organizations in the West should be called upon to back up their pro-forma condemnations of al-Qaeda and ISIS with transparent, inspectable, honest programs teaching young Muslims why they should reject the understanding of Islam offered by jihad terror groups.”
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