Subhead:Sam Westrop, director of the counter-extremism project at the Middle East Forum, joins The Ezra Levant Show to discuss Texas’s move to list the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, as terrorist entities.#
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Governor Greg Abbott last week designated two well-known Islamic organizations as terrorist entities in Texas. The Muslim Brotherhood, which President Donald Trump has also moved to list as a terror group, is a longstanding Islamist organization that aims to destroy the West.
The second listed organization was a lobbying group, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). This decision by Abbott outraged CAIR, with the group calling it “defamatory” and Muslim leaders demanding the Texas governor rescind the designation.
Sam Westrop, director of the counter-extremism project at the Middle Eastern Forum, joined Tuesday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show to discuss what these terror listings mean for the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR, and what actions might come next.
“The actual legal implications of this are hard to tell,” Westrop explained. “Certainly, the governor’s office has said listen, this will prohibit or at least place limits on a group like CAIR’s ability to own property in Texas.”
The analyst called the move “more symbolic than practical,” but acknowledged “something tangible” may come from investigations into the organization.
