Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations in a proclamation on Tuesday.

“The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,'" the Republican governor said in a press release.

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization. CAIR, a nonprofit, is an Islamic civil liberties group that focuses on civil rights and advocacy. The designation given by Abbott will allow "heightened enforcement" against the groups and will also prevent both groups from purchasing land in Texas.

Yesterday, the conservative outlet Just the News had quoted Trump as having said that the move would “be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” and that “final documents are being drawn” up.

The US president can make a temporary determination himself and issue an executive order that is valid for a year.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last August that the designation of the MB as a foreign terrorist organisation was “is in the works, and obviously there are different branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so you’d have to designate each one of them”.

“So we have to go through this process internally where you have to do the review, you have to document and justify what it is,” he added. The organisation is already branded a terrorist organisation in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. The Brotherhood, which was recently banned in Jordan, maintains links to Qatar and Turkey. These two countries back Hamas, which is considered an offshoot of the MB.

The Muslim Brotherhood is described by experts as the ideological source of inspiration for Sunni jihadist groups such as Al Qaeda.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill in July which would call for the MB to be designated as a foreign terrorist organisation. “The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organisation, and it provides support to Muslim Brotherhood branches that are terrorist organisations,” Cruz said.

“They are committed to the overthrow and destruction of America and other non-Islamist governments across the world, and pose an acute threat to American national security interests,” he added.

US Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) cosponsored the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, which would direct the US Secretary of State to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group:

Republican representatives Mario Díaz-Balart, and Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz re-introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 last July, saying, “it is crucial to US national security interests that we prohibit US dollars from enabling the Muslim Brotherhood’s dangerous activities, and that we ensure Muslim Brotherhood members are blocked from entering the United States.”

Moskowitz said that “the Muslim Brotherhood has a documented history of promoting terrorism against the United States, our allies, and our society.”

The US Foundation for Defence of Democracies think tank said that “a more systematic approach to the Brotherhood is long overdue.”

It said their research showed why the U.S. “should designate the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots as Foreign Terrorist Organisations.”

GUVERNER Floride Ron DeSantis potpisao je izvršnu uredbu kojom se jedna od najistaknutijih skupina za muslimanska građanska prava u zemlji, Vijeće za američko-islamske odnose, označava kao "strana teroristička organizacija", čime je postao drugi visokopozicionirani republikanski guverner koji je to učinio u posljednjih nekoliko tjedana.

Prošli je mjesec sličan korak protiv CAIR-a poduzeo guverner Teksasa Greg Abbott. U uredbi Floride tvrdi se da CAIR ima veze s Hamasom, militantnom palestinskom skupinom koja je napala Izrael 7. listopada 2023., ubivši pritom oko 1200 ljudi.