Republican claims of ‘terrorism’ leave everyone unsafe, Muslim leader warns

Edward Ahmed Mitchell of Council on American-Islamic Relations says Texas and Florida governors abusing power

The deputy director of the US's biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group warns that Republican governors' steps to declare his organization a terrorist organization" won't stop with the Muslim community.

No governor should have the power to unilaterally declare a civil rights or advocacy group he disagrees with a terrorist organization, take punitive action against them, all in violation of due process and free speech," Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Guardian this month. If any governor can get away with abusing that kind of power, then no organization is safe."