Hamas-Aligned CAIR Outraged after DHS Cuts Funding to Terror-Linked Islamist Groups
CAIR Blames Israel for $8 Million in Security Grants Stripped from Extremist Groups Following MEF Report
September 4, 2025Benjamin Baird
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.”
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