The executive order identifies no specific Oklahoma incident and sets no deadline for completing or releasing the assessment.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt has ordered state public-safety officials to assess whether the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations or people and organizations acting with them present a terrorism or public-safety threat in Oklahoma.
The executive order, issued Wednesday, directs the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security within the Department of Public Safety to conduct what it calls an “intelligence-based assessment.” The agency also is directed to take lawful preventive or investigative action supported by its findings.
The order does not identify a particular threat, incident or allegation involving CAIR in Oklahoma. It also establishes no deadline for completing the review and does not require the findings to be released publicly.
“Oklahomans expect their government to take terrorism seriously and to act before threats become tragedies,” Stitt said. “My administration will use every lawful tool available to protect our people, defend our values, and make sure taxpayer-funded state resources are never used to support terrorism or those who enable it.”
Stitt also directed state public-safety leaders to advocate for the federal government to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations. He encouraged the Oklahoma Legislature to enact legislation making the same declaration.
Federal law gives the U.S. secretary of state authority to designate a foreign organization as a terrorist organization. A declaration by the Oklahoma Legislature would not itself place an organization on the federal list.
President Donald Trump began a federal review of certain Muslim Brotherhood branches in November 2025. The United States subsequently designated the Lebanese branch as a foreign terrorist organization and imposed terrorism-related sanctions on the Egyptian and Jordanian branches. The federal actions did not designate CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood as a whole.
Stitt’s order cites CAIR’s inclusion on a federal list of unindicted co-conspirators in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, whose leaders were convicted in 2008 of providing support to Hamas. CAIR was not charged with a crime in the case.
A federal judge later found that publicly releasing the unindicted co-conspirator list violated the organizations’ due-process rights. The judge nevertheless said the government had presented evidence of past associations among CAIR, the foundation and Hamas-related organizations.
