Thread: Florida OKs terror designations for CAIR, antifa, Muslim Brotherhood

Florida OKs terror designations for CAIR, antifa, Muslim Brotherhood

Stephany Matat, USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida
Updated Tue, September 29, 2026 at 11:44 AM EDT
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Florida OKs terror designations for CAIR, antifa, Muslim Brotherhood

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), antifa and the Muslim Brotherhood will be labeled domestic terrorist organizations under a new state law, after Florida leaders OK'd the designations at their Sept. 29 meeting.
These designations were in a 427-page packet submitted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for approval by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Cabinet members: Attorney General James Uthmeier, Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and state Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia.
The packet also named numerous other groups labeled by the federal government as foreign terrorist organizations.
Although the Governor and Florida Cabinet approved these notices without any discussion, these designations don't come as a surprise. Weeks earlier, the governor and Cabinet approved an emergency rule setting procedures under a new state law (HB 1471) allowing them to designate terror groups.

Additionally, the day this law took effect, DeSantis announced his intentions to declare CAIR, the country's largest Muslim advocacy group, and antifa as domestic terror groups.

The law not only allows the state to issue these designations, but also mandates universities to expel students who "promote" these groups. It also restricts schools affiliated with domestic terror groups from participating in the state's school voucher program, which grants taxpayer-funded scholarships for parents to enroll their child in a school of their choice.
Now, the organizations have seven days after receiving the notice to object to the designation. The group can also petition FDLE to remove the designation, or it can appeal the designation in the 2nd Judicial Circuit.
A statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents CAIR in existing legal challenges against the governor, said they plan to fight CAIR's designation in court.
"There are simply no legitimate grounds to brand our clients with a reviled label, impose crippling criminal penalties, and force them to shut their doors in Florida," said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's national security project, in a statement.
"As the country's leading Muslim civil rights group, CAIR is being targeted not because it poses a threat to public safety, but because doing so serves a political agenda at the expense of Floridians' rights. CAIR and all U.S. nonprofits have the right to criticize the government, protect religious freedom, and advocate for the causes they believe in."
More: Florida bill on 'terrorist' groups sparks free speech fears
Why is CAIR being designated as a terror group?

Summary findings referred to CAIR as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a case involving a Muslim organization called the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which was shut down in the 2000s. DeSantis previously had called this case the "largest terrorism-financing case in American history."

On CAIR's website, it noted that being "unindicted" has no legal implication and that it was an "untested allegation."

Additionally, CAIR's designation findings included a multi-page timeline starting in 1928, when it was founded, to now, along with a "web" with images of cofounders and leaders in CAIR suggesting a connection to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.
It doesn't include further descriptions on these linkages in the diagram.
Terror designations still under judicial scrutiny

DeSantis currently faces two active lawsuits from CAIR:

• One is challenging the state law empowering the designation of domestic terror groups, which hasn't had much movement in the courts.
  
• The other is challenging an executive order he issued in December declaring CAIR to be a foreign terrorist organization.
  

On CAIR's foreign terror designation, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker struck it down while also criticizing the governor for "using an executive office to make a political statement at the expense of others' constitutional rights."
The governor quickly appealed and requested the appeals court remove Walker from the case. That decision is pending.
(This story was updated to add new information.)

Florida OKs terror designations for CAIR, antifa, Muslim Brotherhood

Awesome: Florida Designates Antifa, CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood As Terrorist Orgs

By William Teach September 30, 2026 – 3:07 pm

They get it: when will others?

Florida OKs terror designations for CAIR, antifa, Muslim Brotherhood
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), antifa and the Muslim Brotherhood will be labeled domestic terrorist organizations under a new state law, after Florida leaders OK’d the designations at their Sept. 29 meeting.
These designations were in a 427-page packet submitted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for approval by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Cabinet members: Attorney General James Uthmeier, Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and state Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia.
The packet also named numerous other groups labeled by the federal government as foreign terrorist organizations. (snip)
The law not only allows the state to issue these designations, but also mandates universities to expel students who “promote” these groups. It also restricts schools affiliated with domestic terror groups from participating in the state’s school voucher program, which grants taxpayer-funded scholarships for parents to enroll their child in a school of their choice.
Now, the organizations have seven days after receiving the notice to object to the designation. The group can also petition FDLE to remove the designation, or it can appeal the designation in the 2nd Judicial Circuit.

Is Antifa a terrorist group? They use violence for political means, which does make them terrorists, rather than simply a criminal gang. CAIR is backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is certainly a terrorist group, one which is against everything America stands for. Hell, there’s a reason they are banned in Egypt.
Of course, the Usual Useful Idiots are proclaiming this is Fascism!!!!!, never seeming to understand that the Islamists are using them to push the Islamist agenda.

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