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MS HR2

Resolution

Status

Failed

3/29/2017

Primary Sponsor

Andy Gipson

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Origin

House of Representatives

2017 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Urges all Mississippi law enforcement and governmental agencies to avoid and suspend all contacts and outreach activities with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)

  • Cites FBI suspension of formal contacts with CAIR due to evidence of relationship between CAIR and HAMAS, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

  • References CAIR's identification as a Muslim Brotherhood front group and naming as unindicted co-conspirator in U.S. v. the Holy Land Foundation, the largest successful terrorism financing prosecution in U.S. history

  • Lists multiple CAIR employees and affiliates convicted or sentenced on terrorism-related charges, including financing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, al Qaeda, and the Taliban between 2003 and 2006

  • Notes that the United Arab Emirates officially designated CAIR as a terrorist organization in 2014

Legislative Description

Council on American Islamic Relations; urge law enforcement and government agencies to avoid contacts with.

Last Action

Died In Committee

3/29/2017

Committee Referrals

Rules1/16/2017

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