Austin/IBNS, Nov. 21 -- Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, issued a proclamation on Tuesday branding one of the country's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisations as a "foreign terrorist organisation," asserting that the move would give the state authority to attempt shutting it down.

Abbott also labelled the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as "a transnational criminal organisation" and declared it ineligible to purchase land in Texas.

The proclamation further added the Muslim Brotherhood to the list.

Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood is recognised as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US federal government.

Robert S. McCaw, the group's government affairs director, wrote that Abbott lacks a...