Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR designated as terrorist groups in Texas: 'This bans them from buying land...'

Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, as "foreign terrorist" and "transnational criminal" organizations. The governor announced that this designation bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and also authroizes Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue the organizations to shut them down. Abbott accused the Muslim Brotherhood of "engaging in terrorism or attempting to destabilize countries" and calls CAIR its "successor organization." The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is a transnational Islamist group with offshoots including Hamas. CAIR, founded in 1994, is the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S. It denies having any relations with the Musl