Hawzah News Agency- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Florida chapter filed the lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday to revoke the state decree that blacklisted the organisation.
The lawsuit was filed amid a spike in Islamophobia and right-wing calls for targeting Muslim groups in the United States, a push that CAIR said aims to suppress speech in support of Palestinian human rights.
Tuesday’s lawsuit noted that CAIR has helped legally challenge DeSantis’s ban against Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
“CAIR’s advocacy on Palestine-related issues, including its representation of SJP chapters and opposition to state censorship of pro-Palestinian speech, forms an important part of the factual context in which Defendant DeSantis issued the EO'', it said.
CAIR deputy director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said the group is hopeful that the lawsuit will succeed because DeSantis’s move is “blatantly unconstitutional”.
Mitchell went on to say that DeSantis should reflect on his own faults.
“It is he who has done something wrong'', he said. “Ron DeSantis needs to account for his ‘Israel first’ policies, his attacks on the First Amendment and his support for the genocide in Gaza. He is the one who needs to answer for his conduct, not CAIR''.
Source: AL JAZEERA
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