Well this is a pleasant surprise…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is now shuttered in Florida after the state’s designation of it as a domestic terrorist organization began.
The indefinite public retreat from operations followed a ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor of the Northern District of Florida, who declined Wednesday to temporarily block the designation while CAIR mounts challenges in federal court.
“We have suspended our operations in Florida because of Gov. DeSantis and other state officials’ baseless and unconstitutional enforcement of the state’s unprecedented new ‘domestic terrorist organization’ laws against us,” CAIR-Florida announced on its website, displaying the statement against a black background.
The cessation of CAIR operations was confirmed by Attorney-General James Uthmeier who called the ruling a “great win by our Solicitor General’s office and for the people of Florida.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations will shut down operations in Florida after a federal court rejected its request to reverse its designation as a terrorist group Wednesday night.