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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is happily distributing a video of a U.S. State Department spokesman saying that the U.S. government does not consider CAIR and the Muslim American Society to be terrorists, as the United Arab Emirates has just done.
The State Department's comment is not a vindication; it's old news. The State Department reiterated what we already know: The U.S. government hasn't labeled them as terrorist groups, just as it hasn't labeled the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group (as the UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have done).
However, the U.S. government has acknowledged their Muslim Brotherhood linkages. Here's what the State Department said: