TRUMP SAYS US WILL DESIGNATE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ‘FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’: REPORT

Mon 24 November 2025:

US President Donald Trump said he will designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, US media reported Sunday, Anadolu reports.

“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Trump told Just the News, a right-wing website. “Final documents are being drawn.”

The move follows Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent designation of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – the US’ self-described largest Muslim civil rights advocacy group – as “foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations.”

Abbott also ordered investigations into alleged “sharia courts,” accusing unnamed tribunals in North Texas of “masquerading” as legal courts and issuing orders that circumvent US law.

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US Muslim groups, in response, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to block an “unconstitutional and defamatory proclamation” targeting CAIR’s Texas branch.

Lena Masri, the group’s litigation director, said CAIR has “successfully sued and defeated Greg Abbott the last three times he tried to violate the First Amendment by punishing critics of the Israeli government.”

CAIR-Texas said it will not be “intimidated by smear campaigns launched by Israel First politicians.”

The group said in its statement that trying to ban “sharia” would be no different than banning Jewish halacha or Catholic canon law, calling the governor’s move a “direct assault” on religious freedom.

“Greg Abbott’s disregard for the First Amendment, his obsession with Texas Muslims and his dedication to protecting the Israeli government from criticism apparently knows no bounds,” CAIR-Texas said in the statement.

It added that Abbott’s latest directive follows a series of failed attempts to penalize Texans who criticized the Israeli government or refused to sign pro-Israel pledges.

“Now, the day after issuing an unconstitutional and error-riddled proclamation targeting the state’s largest Muslim civil rights group, he is ordering Texas district attorneys to investigate imaginary ‘sharia courts,’” the group said.

It accused Abbott of promoting “debunked conspiracy theories” and vowed to continue defending Texas Muslims from what it called his “desperate” attempts to undermine the First Amendment.

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