Florida governor declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By THE AP
Updated 7:45 PM CST, December 8, 2025

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month.

The directive against the Council on American-Islamic Relations comes in an executive order DeSantis posted on the social media site X. It also gives the same label to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

The order instructs Florida agencies to prevent the two groups and those who have provided them material support from receiving contracts, employment and funds from a state executive or cabinet agency.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/florida-desantis-muslim-group-terrorist-label-7113c982c43fed198cef9eaf85b23679

[Deuxcents]

1. This governor has been a disaster for Florida. He tries so hard to keep up with TSF's hateful agenda

[Skittles]

3. we all know what happens when Trump calls people terrorists

will DeSantis follow suit with the mass murders?

[Skittles]

2. these white male "christian" supremacists are so fragile

yes indeed

[AverageOldGuy]

4. " Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government. "

Not yet. Give Trump a couple of days to catch up.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. OK, suppose both the governors of TX and FL called the ADL a terrorist organization.

"ADL" most commonly refers to the Anti-Defamation League, a major civil rights organization fighting antisemitism, bigotry, and hate. It's an advocacy organization.

Or The Catholic League. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, often shortened to the Catholic League, is an American Catholic organization whose stated purpose is to "defend the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination."

CAIR is a similar group with similar goals for those who practice Islam because of the institutionalized and private discrimination against those believers.

Unfortunately, I believe were this case to go to the U.S. Supreme Court, the super-majority would not employ strict scrutiny as they would for the other religions. They would use a less strict test to find discrimination, and of course, they would find no discrimination.

Damned activist judges.