Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Daily Signal that Americans should not be listening to the demands of a group that has “ties to Hamas” in the first place. “The last people they will be listening to are the activists at CAIR with ties to Hamas. Greg Abbott signed legislation in September to ban Sharia law and Sharia law-only compounds in the state. CAIR condemned the legislation as “racist” and “Islamophobic.”In November, Abbott signed legislation designating CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization, which banned its operations in the state. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELYFlorida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations.