On December 9, 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a foreign terrorist organisation along with the Muslim Brotherhood. The order, which compels Florida state agencies to restrict contracts, employment, and funding related to these groups, claims without evidence that CAIR was founded by individuals connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, which DeSantis alleges is seeking to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate and has direct links to Hamas. This designation follows a similar one by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, prompting CAIR to characterize these actions as unconstitutional and politically motivated, aiming to suppress American Muslim voices critical of US support for Israeli actions. CAIR announced plans to sue DeSantis over the measure. The broader political context includes DeSantis’s legislative efforts to combat Sharia law influences and his close ties to pro-Israel policies. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt about a century ago, advocates Islamic rule primarily through electoral processes and peaceful means. Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood are designated as terrorist organisations by the US federal government, though President Trump had initiated a process to list some Brotherhood branches abroad as terrorist entities due to alleged Hamas support.