A prominent Muslim nonprofit organization linked in a federal court case to Hamas is crying foul after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cut an estimated $8 million in security grants to Muslim American groups accused of “alleged affiliations to terrorist activities.”
Yet, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has urged Muslim American groups to reject DHS grants, bears direct responsibility for corrupting the federal government’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
For years, CAIR helped promote the security program among radical mosques and Islamic centers. Now, CAIR claims that the government is cutting off funds to Muslim nonprofits merely because of their “criticism of Israel’s genocide.”
In a statement to Fox News, CAIR insisted that “the government cannot ban American organizations from receiving federal grants based on their religious affiliation or their criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”
In truth, DHS pulled security grants to dozens of radical organizations in response to a Middle East Forum report, written by this author, that exposed $25 million in historical DHS grants to groups with ideological links to terrorism. CAIR, which placed American communities at risk when it helped extremist groups apply for security funding, dismissed the report as “ravings.”
Published on July 21, “Homeland Insecurity: Unraveling DHS Funding of Terror-Linked and Extremist Groups,” went as far back as the Obama administration to identify DHS grants to 501(c) nonprofits with ties Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, among others. The lionshare of this funding was allocated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which administered grants for security improvements to houses of worship, such as bulletproof glass, surveillance cameras, and armed security guards.
There is nothing in the 10,000-word report to suggest that political criticism of Israel resulted in any group’s disqualification. Instead, the study documents antisemitic sermons and anti-Jewish conspiracies expressed at government-funded Islamist mosques. It shows how taxpayer dollars went to mosques that harbored 9/11 hijackers and other terror suspects.
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