One of the biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organizations in the US was labeled a "foreign terrorist organization" by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday. Texas took a similar action last month.
An executive order that DeSantis shared on the social media platform X contains the mandate against the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The Muslim Brotherhood is also given the same moniker.
The U.S. government does not classify the Muslim Brotherhood or CAIR as international terrorist organizations.
The order directs Florida agencies to deny contracts, jobs, and funding from a state executive or cabinet agency to the two groups and those who have given them substantial support.

In reaction to what it described as a "defamatory" and "unconstitutional" declaration, CAIR and its Florida chapter announced in an email that the group intends to sue DeSantis.
CAIR was established in 1994 and currently has 25 chapters nationwide.
In a complaint filed last month, CAIR said that Texas Governor Greg Abbott's declaration was "not only contrary to the United States Constitution, but finds no support in any Texas law" and requested a federal judge to invalidate it.
The Muslim Brotherhood has branches all over the world and was founded in Egypt almost a century ago. According to its founders, it abandoned violence decades ago and aims to establish Islamic governance through elections and other nonviolent channels. Opponents see it as a threat, notably despotic regimes in the Middle East.