The following is from  Just the News.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and CAIR chapters in Austin, Houston, and the Dallas–Fort Worth area, seeking to prevent the organizations from operating in Texas.

The lawsuit follows action taken last year by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, who designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations under state authority. The designation bars the groups and their affiliates from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas and allows increased enforcement against them.

Paxton said the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to “usurp governmental power and establish dominion through sharia law,” and noted that a founding member of CAIR Texas was convicted in 2008 of funneling $12.4 million to Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation.

“Sharia law and the jihadists who follow sharia law have no business being in Texas,” Paxton said. He added that the organizations pose a threat to law and order and to the state’s values.

Neither group has been designated a terrorist organization by the federal government.

CAIR rejected the lawsuit, calling it politically motivated and comparing it to a recent failed effort by Paxton to shut down a Latino voting rights group. CAIR said it plans to continue operating in Texas.

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