Overview
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in Collin County seeking to halt CAIR-Texas from operating, recruiting members, fundraising, and owning property in the state.
- The complaint asks a judge to enforce Governor Greg Abbott’s late-2025 designation of CAIR as a transnational criminal and foreign terrorist organization under new state restrictions.
- Paxton’s filing alleges links between CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood and cites a CAIR-Texas founding board member’s 2008 Holy Land Foundation conviction tied to Hamas.
- CAIR denies involvement in terrorism, has already sued Abbott to block the designation as unconstitutional and defamatory, and says it will defend against Paxton’s case.
- The lawsuit follows state probes of school districts over CAIR-linked events, aligns with similar steps in Florida, and arrives as Paxton campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat.