FYI: The Council on American Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) tax-exempt status was revoked under the George W Bush administration, but reinstated as soon as Barack Hussein Obama took office. President Trump should nationalize the revocation of CAIR’s tax-exempt status and make it permanent.
Dallas News Texas Gov. Greg Abbott keeps raising the stakes in his increasingly tense standoff with the country’s largest organization focused on advocating for the rights of Muslims — asking the federal government in a letter this week to remove the group’s tax-exempt status.
In his Dec. 2 letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Abbott asked that the treasury department investigate the group and suspend its status as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization because “federal investigators and court filings identify CAIR as a direct subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood and as a ‘front group’ for Hamas in the United States.”
“Accordingly, I respectfully request that you investigate CAIR for suspension of its tax-exempt status,” the letter reads. “Americans have generous hearts, and federal law wisely creates incentives to donate to nonprofit organizations that promote the public good. But charity must not become a backdoor to sponsor terrorism, endanger Americans, and subvert our democracy.”
The escalation between the Republican governor and the 31-year-old organization was triggered by Abbott’s November proclamation declaring CAIR a foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organization. CAIR has filed a court challenge and calls Abbott’s efforts “a witch hunt.”
Abbott also called for investigations by the Texas attorney general, the Department of Public Safety and district attorneys and sheriffs of North Texas into groups in Collin and Dallas counties that he suspects of being “Sharia tribunals masquerading as legal courts” and enforcing Shariah — which is illegal in both Texas and the United States.
“Legal disputes in Texas must be decided based on American law rooted in the fundamental principles of American due process, not according to Sharia law dispensed in modern day star chambers,” Abbott said in the Nov. 19 proclamation.
According to the Immigration and Nationality Act, only the U.S. Secretary of State, in consultation with the attorney general and secretary of the treasury, can officially designate foreign terrorist organizations.
KVUE CAIR and the Muslim Legal Fund of America have rejected Abbott’s allegations and filed a lawsuit against the governor and attorney general stating the designation made by Abbott is “unconstitutional and defamatory.”
On Wednesday, CAIR sent its own letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in response to claims made by Abbott as he requests an investigation into CAIR’s nonprofit status.
“Governor Abbott has every right to disagree with CAIR’s support for free speech and Palestinian human rights,” the letter, signed by CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, said. “However, he does not have the right to trigger witch hunts into American organizations he disagrees with based on debunked conspiracy theories.”
This comes after Austin leaders, advocates and members of CAIR gathered at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday to take aim at Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton after the governor labeled CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization.
“We are supposed to protect the Muslim community from such hate and when the governor is attacking us in such a way, he’s just putting us in the same situation,” CAIR Operations Manager Shaimaa Zayan said.
The Council on American‑Islamic Relations (CAIR) has also filed a federal lawsuit against Governor Greg Abbott after his proclamation this week banned the group from owning land in Texas and labeled it a terrorist organization. CAIR leaders, joined by other Texas Muslim organizations, denounced the move as defamatory and an attack on civil rights, vowing not to be intimidated.
Good chance Florida will side with Texas against Cair , big numbers of republicans down there ! if Trump likes to make real American’s happy just before the mid turns , if he knows what is good for his agenda to keep the House red , if he wants to make America Great and safe for his golf courses … Check Mate C.A.I.R … comments here at uncut unabridged BNI among other’s are monitored by his home report team ! his blunt actions in words and deeds follow suit we know he knows .