Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he's directing the Texas Department of Public Safety to criminally investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood — just two days after declaring the two groups were foreign terrorist organizations.

Abbott accused the two groups of supporting terrorism across the globe through violence, intimidation, and harassment in his letter to Texas DPS. He's also previously called CAIR a "front group" for Hamas and a direct subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood.

"The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s 'mastership of the world,'” Abbott said.

The governor said there was “ample evidence to establish” a connection between CAIR and Hamas, citing a 2009 federal

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