‘Sponsoring terror’: Governor calls on attorney general to withdraw CAIR’s tax-exempt status

The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, already has declared the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the pro-Islamist lobbying and activist organization, as a foreign terrorist organization.

Now he wants his attorney general, Ken Paxton, to go through a legal process that would end up with CAIR losing its tax-exempt status in the state.

Abbott already has called for federal investigations of CAIR, asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to move against the group’s tax-exempt benefits because of its alleged terrorist ties.