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Subsidizing Our Own Demise: DHS Hands Big Grants to Terror-Linked Groups
by Clare M. Lopez
August 2025
“MEF Report Reveals DHS Hands Millions to Terrorist-Linked Groups” at the Middle East Forum, July 21, 2025
“BIDEN OFFICIAL FUNDED HAMAS WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS” by Kim Wexler, July 23, 2025
“New Study Explores the History of the Muslim Brotherhood in America as Congress Weighs Terror Designation” by Matt Seldon at Homeland Security Today, July 25, 2025
“Between Security and Strategy: Considerations for the Terrorist Designation of the Muslim Brotherhood” by Mahmut Cengiz at Homeland Security Today, July 28, 2025
“The Muslim Brotherhood in America: A Brief History” by Lorenzo Vidino, July 2025
“US to allow federal workers to promote religion in workplaces” by Courtney Rozen and Daniel Wiessner, at Reuters, July 28, 2025
“Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Provides for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions”, from the White House, June 30, 2025
“Revoking the Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham”, Press Statement by Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, July 7, 2025
“The FBI’s Role in America’s Next Jihad” by Aynaz Anni Cyrus at Front Page Magazine, June 13, 2025
“The Gateway Pundit Called It… There was NO VETTING! Biden Admin Evacuated 55 Afghans on Terror Watchlist to U.S. During Botched Withdrawal, New DOJ Report Confirms” by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, June 11, 2025
“Qatari foreign agents frequently donate to the congressional offices they lobby” by Robert Schmad at the Washington Examiner, May 25, 2025
“Corey Lewandowski Drops Bombshell Allegation: The Biden Regime Kept Several Known Terrorists Off the Watchlist for ‘Political Realities’” by Cullen Linebarger at Gateway Pundit, June 2, 2025
Subsidizing Our Own Demise: DHS Hands Big Grants to Terror-Linked Groups
by Clare M. Lopez
August 2025
“MEF Report Reveals DHS Hands Millions to Terrorist-Linked Groups” at the Middle East Forum, July 21, 2025
- From 2013-2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security funded mosques and Islamic groups linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran and numerous Islamic jihad and terror organizations. With the second Trump administration now in office, it may be hoped that the exposure contained in this report will lead to such grants being ended.
- More: “Report: More Than $25M in DHS Grants Went to Radical Groups With Terror Ties” by Aaron Bandler at Jewish News Syndicate, July 23, 2025
- Full Report: “Homeland Insecurity: Unraveling DHS Funding of Terror-Linked and Extremist Groups” at the Middle East Forum, July 21, 2025 (full report)
“BIDEN OFFICIAL FUNDED HAMAS WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS” by Kim Wexler, July 23, 2025
- This is a posting on “X” (formerly Twitter) about how funding flowed from the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), headed by a U.S. government official who simultaneously also chaired the Advisory Commission (AdCom) for UNRWA (the UN Refugee Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) that has been collaborating with HAMAS in Gaza for years.
“New Study Explores the History of the Muslim Brotherhood in America as Congress Weighs Terror Designation” by Matt Seldon at Homeland Security Today, July 25, 2025
- Although neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor any of its U.S. offshoots has ever committed an act of terrorism against the U.S. or Americans, the current Congressional effort (again led by Texas Senator Ted Cruz) seeks to change the criteria for designation to the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list essentially by equating “subversion” with “terrorism”.
“Between Security and Strategy: Considerations for the Terrorist Designation of the Muslim Brotherhood” by Mahmut Cengiz at Homeland Security Today, July 28, 2025
- Another analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood over the decades that correctly describes its activities as promotion of mainstream, orthodox Islamic doctrine, but overall, not terrorist. Also, by diluting the FTO list with groups that are clearly jihadi but do not engage in terrorism, the impact of the FTO list itself would be diluted.
“The Muslim Brotherhood in America: A Brief History” by Lorenzo Vidino, July 2025
- This paper casts doubt that many will find unwarranted on multiple details about the establishment and continuing international linkages of Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S. Lacking, too, is clarity that while these groups clearly are mainstream, normative, orthodox Islamic jihad organizations, their activities over the decades have been dedicated primarily to subversive efforts to insinuate Islamic Law (sharia) in American institutions and society. This, rather than kinetic violence (terrorism), is the major threat they pose to our Constitutional Republic.
“US to allow federal workers to promote religion in workplaces” by Courtney Rozen and Daniel Wiessner, at Reuters, July 28, 2025
- This proposal promotes religious freedom at the workplace but also opens the door to Islamic proselytizing.
“Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Provides for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions”, from the White House, June 30, 2025
- Time will tell whether this was a wise move or not given the jihadist Al-Qa’eda and Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) background of Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham ruler of Damascus, whose forces already have carried out massacres of Alawite, Christian, and Druze minorities.
“Revoking the Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham”, Press Statement by Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, July 7, 2025
- Question has to be “Why?” Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham is a jihadi organization that branched off from the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and al-Qa’eda. Seeking a new relationship with Damascus’ new jihadi rulers, whose forces already have massacred hundreds of people in minority populations, seems oblivious to the realities of Islam, jihad, and sharia.
“The FBI’s Role in America’s Next Jihad” by Aynaz Anni Cyrus at Front Page Magazine, June 13, 2025
- This is the story of a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Iraq who was clearly a jihadi and had tried to travel overseas to join terror groups—but was repeatedly arrested and released. Only in June 2025 was he finally convicted. Other cases follow, demonstrating how a pattern of law enforcement leniency puts American citizens in danger.
“The Gateway Pundit Called It… There was NO VETTING! Biden Admin Evacuated 55 Afghans on Terror Watchlist to U.S. During Botched Withdrawal, New DOJ Report Confirms” by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, June 11, 2025
“Qatari foreign agents frequently donate to the congressional offices they lobby” by Robert Schmad at the Washington Examiner, May 25, 2025
“Corey Lewandowski Drops Bombshell Allegation: The Biden Regime Kept Several Known Terrorists Off the Watchlist for ‘Political Realities’” by Cullen Linebarger at Gateway Pundit, June 2, 2025
- What needs to be investigated are the reasons why such known terrorist individuals were kept off the terror watchlist.