Texas faith leaders and advocacy groups intensified pressure on Gov. Greg Abbott this week over his designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a terrorist group, calling for the proclamation to be rescinded.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching the process of designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist entities.
Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) is leading a renewed charge against the Muslim Brotherhood, introducing a bold new bill to officially designate the Islamist network as a terrorist organization.
The U.S. government is making moves to formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in the weeks since President Donald Trump’s Middle East trip, lawmakers and other sources familiar with the effort tell the Washington Free Beacon.
