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(RNS) — The Florida chapter of a leading Muslim civil rights group shut down a day before a state “domestic terrorist organization” designation took effect, the organization announced.

A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and its Florida chapter to block the designation. The groups’ attorneys had asked the court in October to intervene before the designation went into effect on Nov. 5.

In a statement , Hiba Rahim, who was executive director of CAIR-Florida until it shut down Wednesday (Nov.…