Finally. Somebody Cares About CAIR.
New Bill Would Aim to Brand anti-American, anti-Southern Muslim Group a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization’
A member of Congress introduced a bill Tuesday asking the secretary of state to consider designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations brands itself as a 501(c)(3) Muslim civil rights and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., but according to Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., the group is “a terrorist organization.”
“I think in this time of conflict in the Middle East, and this time in which Muslim terror groups are operating with impunity in our cities and on our college campuses, it is important that we stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough’ and we designate these organizations as the evil organizations that they are,” Fine told The Daily Signal.
If passed, Fine‘s eight-page bill directs the secretary of state, currently Marco Rubio, to review the work of CAIR and consider whether the organization meets the appropriate criteria to be labeled a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department has designated groups such as…