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DeSantis targets ‘jihad’ with hardline Florida terror crackdown

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday creating a state process to designate terrorist organizations and penalize universities that support them, part of what he described as a crackdown on Islamic extremism in Florida.DeSantis, standing behind a sign denouncing Sharia law, said during the bill signing Monday that the legislation was designed to protect Floridians and their tax dollars."We’ll do millions for public safety, millions for education, but never one red cent for jihad," DeSantis said, noting that "the federal government does this all the time … but we need to be doing that here."The...