After terror designation, Texas targets Muslim Brotherhood networks
After its designation as a terrorist organization, the State of Texas is moving to dry up the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and its front organizations.
The US state of Texas is continuing to tighten the noose around the Muslim Brotherhood through additional legal measures targeting entities described as fronts for the organization.
Once again, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has escalated his rhetoric against the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization, calling for legal action to strip non-profit status from organizations he says operate as fronts for the group within the state.
According to a statement on the state’s official website, Abbott urged the Office of the Attorney General to use its authority to revoke the non-profit status of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and to bar the organization and its branches from operating in Texas.
In the statement issued by his office, Abbott said that “numerous documents document the dangers posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations and their affiliates to the people of Texas”.
He added that “regardless of the false image the Council on American-Islamic Relations attempts to project in its press releases, it cannot be allowed to use charitable status as a cover to support terrorism, spread extremist Islamism in Texas, or operate as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and conceal its activities”.
The Texas governor stressed that these measures would not apply to CAIR alone, but would also include “other entities that claim to engage in charitable work by day while supporting terrorism by night”, as he put it.
In this context, he explained that under Texas law, the state’s attorney general is the only elected official authorized to regulate the activities of non-profit organizations that may violate the law, including reviewing their records and revoking their licenses.
Addressing the attorney general directly, Abbott said: “You have used these tools before, and I urge you to use them again now to combat the Council on American-Islamic Relations”.
Measures against threats
The statement noted that the Texas governor continues to take steps he described as aimed at “protecting the rule of law and defending Texas communities” from threats linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR. These steps include:
– Calling for the severing of ties between the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD) and Islamic events sponsored by CAIR.
– Demanding that the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District cut its ties with games and activities sponsored by CAIR.
– Urging US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to suspend CAIR’s tax-exempt status.
– Directing the Department of Public Safety to open criminal investigations into the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR.
– Designating the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as “foreign terrorist organizations”.
Previous designation
Last November, the State of Texas designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations.
In a statement issued at the time, Abbott said that “the actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism around the world and to undermine our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable. Today, we have designated them as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations”.
Earlier this month, the United States designated the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon as a terrorist organization.
In a statement, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that “this designation reflects the initial steps of ongoing efforts to confront the violence and instability carried out by branches of the Muslim Brotherhood wherever they operate”.
He emphasized that “the United States will use all available tools to deny the Muslim Brotherhood’s branches the resources necessary to carry out or support terrorism”.
