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A bunch of Muslim and interfaith leaders are urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, to reverse his proclamation designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a “international terrorist group.”
Texas’s designation is state-level solely. It doesn’t carry the authorized power of a federal International Terrorist Group (FTO) itemizing, which solely the U.S. State Division can challenge. Abbott’s proclamation, subsequently, doesn’t set off federal terrorism penalties or authorities.
The leaders of a number of Muslim teams held a information convention on Tuesday to denounce the governor’s proclamation, which additionally labeled CAIR as a “a transnational felony group.”
The teams referred to as on the governor to retract his labeling of the civil rights group, calling it defamatory, damaging and harmful, based on Fox 4.
MUSLIM CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP CAIR SUES TEXAS OVER ABBOTT’S ‘TERRORIST’ DESIGNATION
Muslim and interfaith leaders are urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to reverse his proclamation designating CAIR as a terrorist group. (Brandon Bell/Getty Photos)
This comes after CAIR filed a lawsuit towards Texas over the governor’s declaration, arguing that it violates each the U.S. Structure and state legislation.
CAIR argues the order violates its First Modification rights and due-process protections, and that Texas overstepped its authority as a result of terrorism designations fall beneath federal, not state, jurisdiction.
“The governor is making an attempt to punish the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group just because he disagrees with its protected First Modification rights to criticize a international state that’s conducting genocide. This isn’t solely opposite to america Structure, however finds no help in any Texas legislation,” Mustaffa Carroll, the chief director for CAIR Dallas Fort Value, stated on the information convention on Tuesday.
“You recognize that CAIR has condemned Hamas assaults. You recognize that CAIR has spent 31 years preventing terrorism and bigotry. You recognize that the terrorism boogeyman you invoke is nothing greater than a drained, formulated playbook to stoke concern of Muslims,” Marium Uddin of the Muslim Authorized Protection Fund stated on Tuesday.
CAIR filed a lawsuit towards Texas over the governor’s declaration, arguing that it violates each the U.S. Structure and state legislation. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Photos)
Leaders from different faiths, together with Jewish voices, additionally spoke out towards Abbott’s label.
“We stand steadfast in solidarity with our comrades in CAIR and in unwavering help of their lawsuit towards Abbott’s false and unconstitutional proclamation,” Jewish Voice for Peace’s Deborah Armintor stated.
State Rep. Terry Meza, a Democrat, added that the governor’s phrases “will not be simply improper, they’re harmful. Making feedback like that is harmful to our Muslim group.”
TEXAS GOV ABBOTT DECLARES CAIR, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AS TERRORIST GROUPS, PREVENTING LAND PURCHASES
The Muslim teams referred to as on the governor to retract his labeling of CAIR, calling it defamatory, damaging and harmful. (Antranik Tavitian/Reuters)
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The lawsuit is ongoing, and it stays unclear whether or not a courtroom will uphold Abbott’s order or strike it down as exceeding state authority.
The governor’s decree bars CAIR from shopping for land within the Lone Star State beneath a brand new statute aimed toward curbing purchases tied to “international adversaries.”
Abbott’s order additionally prolonged the “terrorist” label to the Muslim Brotherhood, regardless of the federal authorities by no means classifying both group that means.
