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Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist Group

Calls for Foreign Terrorist Organization status for the Muslim rights group follow similar statements by Senator Ted Cruz.

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Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist Group

What this story says

  • Key Republican members of Congress are urging the Trump administration to consider designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a foreign terrorist organization.
  • U.S. Senator Ted Cruz called for an FTO designation for CAIR last week.
  • CAIR is described in the reports as a group that promotes Muslim rights.
  • No left-rated outlets reported on this story.

Who covered it

Left 7%(2)Centre 36%(11)Right 57%(17)

Percentages are shares of the 30 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 31 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

30/100

Craft

45/100

Hype

20/100

31 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 2 of the 30 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Several key Republican members of Congress are urging the Trump administration to consider designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a foreign terrorist organization. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz called for an FTO designation for CAIR last week. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is described as a group that promotes Muslim rights.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated outlets reported on this story. The digests from the centre and right-rated outlets did not include any specific details about the reasons behind the calls for CAIR's designation as a foreign terrorist organization, nor did they mention any potential consequences of such a designation.

Tags:#CAIR#Terrorism#Politics#USCongress#TedCruz

Coverage settled. We checked this 24 times and stopped on 28 Sept 2026, 05:30. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

2 rated outlets

  • Both the Watauga Democrat and the Daily Post‑Athenian ran digests that led on a group of Republican lawmakers urging the Trump administration to consider labeling the Council on American‑Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization.
  • The digests noted that the effort was described as coming from several key Congressional Republicans and that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz was quoted calling for the designation; they also characterised CAIR as an organisation that promotes Muslim rights.
  • The digests do not contain any statement from CAIR, no reaction from other members of Congress, and no discussion of the legal or financial or procedural implications of a terrorist‑organization designation.

Centre

11 rated outlets

  • The two centre-rated reports led on the call by Republican members of Congress for the Trump administration to consider designating CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization. Both reports noted that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz had made a similar call last week. They also included the description of CAIR as a group that promotes Muslim rights.

Right

17 rated outlets

  • The five right-rated reports all led on the push by Republican lawmakers for the Trump administration to consider designating CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization. Each report mentioned that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz had called for an FTO designation for CAIR the previous week. The description of CAIR as a group that promotes Muslim rights was also present in all five reports.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist…?
Of the 30 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 7% are rated left, 36% are rated centre, 57% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 31. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist… left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 30 rated outlets on this story, 7% are rated left, 36% are rated centre, 57% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist… biased?
Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist Group is one event reported by 31 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Republicans Urge Trump Administration to Designate CAIR a Terrorist…?
31 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What is the Council on American-Islamic Relations?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is described in the reports as a group that promotes Muslim rights. It is the subject of calls from some Republican lawmakers to be designated a foreign terrorist organization.
Who is calling for CAIR to be designated a foreign terrorist organization?
Several key Republican members of Congress are urging the Trump administration to consider this designation. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz specifically called for an FTO designation for CAIR last week.
Did any left-rated outlets report on this story?
No left-rated outlets reported on this story. The coverage was limited to centre and right-rated outlets, with no left-leaning perspectives appearing in the provided digests.

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