Far right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet have voted to designate the U.S.’s leading Muslim civil rights group as a “domestic terrorist organization,” threatening to shutter and impose severe penalties on the group and its state affiliate simply to serve the GOP’s political crusades, critics said.
The 427-page document recommending “terrorist” designations for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Florida chapter was approved over the course of just 30 seconds at DeSantis’s cabinet meeting on Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Contained within the approved packet, submitted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, were also recommendations for “antifa” and dozens of other groups already named as foreign terrorist organizations by the federal government to be listed as “terrorist” groups.
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- Cornpop@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
All religious groups are a terrorist group to some extent. I’m all for it. Now add some crazy Christian nationalists so it does not seem like your picking sides, oh that will never happen. Oh well. Religion sucks. Happy to see any religion get some power taken away.
- 2 days
I’d say they’re all supremacist, to a greater or lesser degree. How can they not be, when the whole point of following any religion is to win favour with the holy spooky in the sky?
- MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
Is there a criteria for being a terrorist organization out is it completely fucking arbitrary?
It’s pretty much anything that extreme right “Christians” consider a threat to the ethnostate they want so badly.
4 daysYes, anything conservatives do not like. Coincidentally, everything they do not like is also antisemitism.
Oh there is a criteria: mainly being non-white and non-evangelical protestant christian.
- 4 days
The one thing I really like about Ron DeSantis is that he’s too unlikeable to be President
- 3 days
I fear, somewhere in the near future, someone of going to find this comment after he becomes president and put it on whatever social media is allowed.
- QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish3 days
Okay, at this point I’m going to need the Right to come out with a list of who ISN’T a terrorist, because at this point I feel like I can safely assume that everyone to the left of the Klan is a terrorist.
- 4 days
I knew it was CAIR before even reading the title. Terrorist is too far, but they are a bit outspoken, for sure.
I don’t know what to make of all this. What a disgrace.
