Rabat- The U.S. State Department has rejected the inclusion of two prominent Muslim American groups as terror organizations by the United Arab Emirates.
In a move that drew immediate rejection from various Muslim organizations, the UAE released on November 15 a list of 83 terrorists and terrorist organizations.
According to Voice of America, “A State Department spokesman Tuesday said officials are following up on the designation made Monday by the UAE.”
The UAE named the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based group known as CAIR, as well as the Muslim American Society, on the list along with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), Al Qaeda, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Immediately after the release of this controversial list, the two US Muslim groups protested their inclusion on UAE terror list, demanding instant clarifications on its "bizarre and shocking" addition to the list.
"There is absolutely no factual basis for the inclusion CAIR and other American and European civil rights and advocacy groups on this list," CAIR said.
The UAE included the names of several prominent Muslim leaders like Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Egyptian Islamic theologian and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and Moroccan cleric Dr. Ahmad Raissouni.