AG Ken Pax­ton Sues the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and CAIR to StopTer­ror­ist Groups from Oper­at­ing

[Elderberry]

Ken Paxton 2/5/2026

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and CAIR to Stop the Ter­ror­ist Groups from Oper­at­ing in Texas

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), and CAIR’s Austin, Houston, and DFW chapters to ban the terrorist organizations from operating in Texas and to stop their violent ideology from spreading across the state.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a radical terrorist organization that exists to usurp governmental power and establish dominion through sharia law. For three decades, it has covertly operated in the United States under the name “CAIR”—the Council on American-Islamic Relations—as its American chapter. The terrorist ties are unquestionable. For example, CAIR-Texas's founding board member was convicted in 2008 of funneling $12.4 million to Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation, and CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in that case. As the lawsuit notes, CAIR is undeniably the American face of an international terrorist organization.

The Muslim Brotherhood and its American chapter, CAIR, are in violation of a number of state laws, including Texas’s ban on any entity engaging in terrorism, Texas’s prohibition of transnational criminal organizations owning property, and public nuisance statutes barring radical groups from engaging in gang activities.

“Sharia law and the jihadists who follow sharia law have no business being in Texas,” said Attorney General Paxton. “I am in full support of Governor Abbott’s lawful declaration that CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood are foreign terrorist organizations, and it’s imperative that they are stopped from operating in Texas. Radical Islamic terrorists are antithetical to law and order, endanger the people of Texas, and are an existential threat to our values.”

Attorney General Paxton’s lawsuit seeks to end the operations of the Muslim Brotherhood and its American chapter, CAIR, in Texas, including prohibiting the organizations and their affiliates from owning property in the state or soliciting or recruiting members.

To read the lawsuit, click here: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Petition_7.pdf

[Bigun]

 

[Smokin Joe]

[libertybele]

This needs to be done in all 50 states!

[corbe]

   Why has one of the most outstanding Conservative AG's in this Country not brought this forward till then?


   Must be primary election season in Texas.

[catfish1957]

   Why has one of the most outstanding Conservative AG's in this Country not brought this forward till then?


   Must be primary election season in Texas.

Good points, and I used to be pretty positive on Paxton. 

And why I am supporting Hunt this go around.  I can't stomach  Cornyn,   and after enough research on Paxton?  Hmmmm.....

[Bigun]

Good points, and I used to be pretty positive on Paxton. 

And why I am supporting Hunt this go around.  I can't stomach  Cornyn,   and after enough research on Paxton?  Hmmmm.....

I'll be voting for Ken Paxton without the slightest reservation. I have been casually acquainted with him since his days in the Texas house and never known him to be anything other than a true patriot in every sense of the word.

[catfish1957]

I'll be voting for Ken Paxton without the slightest reservation. I have been casually acquainted with him since his days in the Texas house and never known him to be anything other than a true patriot in every sense of the word.

That's fine.  We align 99.9999% on everything else.

 

[Bigun]

That's fine.  We align 99.9999% on everything else.

 

  The bottom line here is that Cornyn must go!

[catfish1957]

The bottom line here is that Cornyn must go!

Agreed....   Priority one is to tar, feather, and rail Cornyn out of DC.  I will support Paxton or Hunt.

I hate to regurgitate rumour and innuendo, but when Paxton was the leading US AG candidate, I understand his vetting "may" have yielded some problems, causing DJT to go to Plan B.  Again, nothing proven, but in the general election, I'd prefer to take the safer approach. 

[Bigun]

Agreed....   Priority one is to tar, feather, and rail Cornyn out of DC.  I will support Paxton or Hunt.

I hate to regurgitate rumour and innuendo, but when Paxton was the leading US AG candidate, I understand his vetting "may" have yielded some problems, causing DJT to go to Plan B.  Again, nothing proven, but in the general election, I'd prefer to take the safer approach.

What do you think the history of the Texas House might look now had Ken Paxton defeated Joe Straus for speaker in 2010? I think we would be in a FAR better place myself. There is a reason why the long knives are out for Paxton.

[catfish1957]

What do you think the history of the Texas House might look now had Ken Paxton defeated Joe Straus for speaker in 2010? I think we would be in a FAR better place myself. There is a reason why the long knives are out for Paxton.

I am fine with Paxton.  Hunt is just a preference at this point.  I like what I see thus far.