{"id":77563,"date":"2025-12-09T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77563\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:09:08","slug":"muslim-advocacy-organization-to-sue-after-desantis-labels-them-a-foreign-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77563\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim advocacy organization to sue after DeSantis labels them a &#8216;foreign terrorist organization&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSCN7476-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-250383 size-250383 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCAIR-FL Interim Executive Director Hiba Rahim \/ Chris Young, WMNF News, 12\/9\/2025<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tListen:<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations announced they are taking legal action against Governor Ron DeSantis at a press conference Tuesday in Tampa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s after the governor designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations, one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S, a \u201cforeign terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hiba Rahim, Interim Executive Director at CAIR Florida, called the executive order a smear campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not back down. CAIR Florida will file a lawsuit against Governor Ron DeSantis in response to his defamatory and unconstitutional order baselessly smearing CAIR Florida,\u201d Rahim said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization says DeSantis\u2019s executive order singles out and defames the Muslim community for a political agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Megan Amer is the policy director for CAIR Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an appalling attack to try to take attention away from the current genocide going on in Gaza. It\u2019s to create a scapegoat,\u201d Amer said.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the organization said DeSantis has no constitutional authority to declare an American institution a terrorist group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference on the same day, DeSantis said he welcomes the lawsuit and looks forward to subpoenaing bank records from the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome the lawsuit because what\u2019ll happen is that it will give the state of Florida discovery rights to be able to subpoena the bank records,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a similar order last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAIR-FL Interim Executive Director Hiba Rahim \/ Chris Young, WMNF News, 12\/9\/2025 Listen: The Florida Chapter of Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43267,17378,412,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-77563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-cair","tag-cair-florida","tag-ron-desantis","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}