DHS reviews grants to Muslim groups with alleged terrorist ties after report

First on Fox: The Homeland Security Department (DHS) is reviewing federal security grants for Muslim groups with “alleged terrorist relations” following a new report after a new report.

According to a DHS document obtained by Fox News Digital, 49 projects “already canceled” with alleged affiliation with terrorist activities, a step department’s estimate will save $ 8 million.

The review mainly targets the funds distributed through FEMA’s non-profit security grant program (NSGP), which helps churches, mosques, synthrivers and other confidence-based institutions to facing the dangers of hate-operated violence.

Follows a report by investigation Middle East Forum, A pro-Israeli Orthodox Think Tank, which claimed that DHS and FEMA grant exceeded $ 25 million and went to “Terror-Juda Group” between 2013 and 2023.

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A DHS official said the department is making its own free review of funding, but said, “We take the results of the MEF report very seriously and are grateful to the work of conservative watchdog groups.”

The report gave a grant of $ 100,000 to Dar al-Hijira Mosque in Virginia in 2019, which was described as a mosque working as a front for Hamas operators in America, “according to” according to ” Record records By the investigative project through the Independence of Information Act.

In response to MEF findings, DHS is reviewing all current and future contracts to not provide funds to such organizations. Officials said that the department is also investigating ways to recover without money.

Money has already been allocated for the financial year 2024. It shared $ 94 million for 500 Jewish organizations and 600 Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jewish institutions.

For the financial year 2025, DHS stated that applicants would face difficult requirements to ensure “strong” veating process.

A DHS official said, “We do not want to empower groups that can pose a threat to our community in the United States.”

The Middle East Forum report also highlighted the specific cases of funding that it claims that it had gone to groups with extremist relationships. It said that $ 10.3 million had moved to the Islamic circle in North America, with the allegation of the stage associated with the South Asian Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami.

The report awarded the US Islamic Relations (CAIR) to the council $ 250,000, alleging “Hamas Relations” by DHS. According to the report, another $ 750,000 went to mosques in Michigan and Texas that DHS described as “Outpost for Shia Islamism of Iran’s revolutionary brand”, which includes the Islamic Center and Detroit of the US, along with the Islamic House of Visadam, as well as the Islamic Ahlul Bet Association.

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CAIR told Fox News Digital that it has no active federal contract with DHS.

“While our civil rights organization does not have any active federal grant, which the department can abolish or cut, and while the government cannot ban American organizations from receiving federal grants on its religious affiliation or criticize the massacre of Israel in Gaza,” A career spokesperson said, “It is important to pay attention to the website.”

FEMA has previously worked with CAIR, organized a seminar to encourage participation in the NSGP program.

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But last week, CAIR urged organizations to withdraw from applying for DHS and FEMA grants – including NSGP – until DHS drops two new veating rules. Those provisions require recipients to cooperate with immigration officers and prevent unspecified immigrants from running programs tied with diversity, equity, inclusion, or help, as well as being engaged in some “discriminated prohibited boycott”.