CAIR to file lawsuit challenging Trump’s Muslim ban order

A prominent Muslim advocacy group will file a federal lawsuit against US President Donald Trump over his far-reaching executive order targeting Muslims.

Trump’s executive order, signed on Friday, temporarily halts the admission of new refugees into the United States and suspends the entry of citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) immediately announced it would be challenging the constitutionality of Trump’s directive in court “because its apparent purpose and underlying motive is to ban people of the Islamic faith from Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.”

“The American Muslim community has been the target of discriminatory policies for many years now,” Lena Masri, CAIR’s national litigation director, told The Independent. “Generally speaking at this time the Muslim community is being attacked by this order. It’s important for Americans to stand together and rise together.”

The advocacy group said 20 Muslims were behind the lawsuit. Full details of the action will be revealed on Monday.