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Tyler Hicks

Greg Abbott’s Cair ‘terror’ label stokes legal fight in Texas’s long struggle with Islamophobia

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Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, has issued an order mandating ‘heightened enforcement’ against Cair and the Muslim Brotherhood. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

Islamophobia is on the rise in the US, with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), a civil liberties group, reporting sharp increases in anti-Muslim violence and rhetoric over the last two years.

In Texas, the issue has come to the fore in high-profile incidents, including the case of a Euless woman who was initially released on a $40,000 bail after attempting to drown two Palestinian American children.

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