Florida’s bill to let state officials brand organizations as domestic terrorists advanced in both chambers in a single week. The House Education & Employment Committee approved HB 1471 on a 16-4 vote — with two Democrats crossing over — while the Senate Judiciary Committee passed its companion, SB 1632, 8-3. The bills are now moving faster than the opposition can organize against them.
When Florida Muslims came to Tallahassee for the annual Muslim Day at the Capitol, Attorney General James Uthmeier posted on social media calling for “heightened alert for any possible security threats.” Armed police filled the rotunda. Then former House Speaker Paul Renner, now running for governor, vowed to “take any legal means” to remove Muslim groups from the state.
Protests erupted in Utrecht, Netherlands after reports emerged of racist police violence targeting two Muslim women. The incident has drawn attention to a broader pattern of Islamophobia and racial profiling affecting Muslim communities across Europe — including discriminatory treatment of hijab-wearing women in schools and public life.
A Florida House subcommittee voted 14-3 to advance HB 1471, which gives the state the power to designate organizations as domestic terrorists, cut off their funding, and expel students who support them. The bill was filed one month after Gov. DeSantis asked lawmakers to codify his executive order targeting CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Rasmussen Reports released a three-question survey that United Voices says was designed not to measure public opinion but to generate anti-Muslim talking points — using selectively framed questions to produce predetermined conclusions. The same strategy was used in 2015 when a debunked poll was cited to justify a Muslim travel ban. This time, a man was arrested for attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall the same week.
Eighty-six people were arrested outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs for protesting the detention of Palestine Action hunger striker Umer Khalid — who was refusing water and had ‘days left to live’ — under a terrorist designation a British court would rule unlawful three weeks later.
Offensive hate graffiti was discovered on Edinburgh Central Mosque, alarming worshippers and prompting condemnation from local residents and community leaders. Police are treating the incident as a hate crime. United Voices stands with Scotland’s Muslim community and calls for full accountability.

The British Museum Removed ‘Palestine’ from Its Displays. A Pro-Israel Lobby Group Celebrated.
The British Museum altered ancient Middle East display panels removing references to ‘Palestine’ — changes that coincided with a formal complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel, sparking accusations of historical erasure and raising questions about political pressure on public institutions.