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Exclusive: Inside the Trump administration’s efforts to disqualify Muslim groups from security grants | CNN Politics
CNN ^ | October 10, 2025 | Gabe Cohen

Posted on 10/11/2025 10:29:30 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Top brass at the Department of Homeland Security approached the Federal Emergency Management Agency this spring with a proposal: What if the agency blocked millions of dollars in security grants awarded to Muslim organizations around the country?

The suggestion of a blanket ban left the FEMA leaders bewildered and deeply concerned, and they immediately pointed out such a proposal could be considered discriminatory and even illegal, according to three sources with knowledge of the episode who asked not to be named out of fear of reprisal.

While the DHS officials didn’t give a reason for disqualifying Muslim groups when they floated the idea, the Trump administration at the time was in the throes of dramatically downsizing the federal government.

Ultimately, the idea was dropped.

But six months later, dozens of those Muslim organizations have been stripped of their eligibility for security funds that help protect against hate crimes and extremist attacks after DHS and the Department of Government Efficiency alleged that the groups have ties to terrorism.

Five FEMA insiders — including those with knowledge of the proposal to block the funds — describe those allegations as questionable, given the standard vetting the groups undergo and the unusual circumstances that led to their loss of funding. Some suggested that the allegations of terror ties, which they said came with little evidence, may be a pretext to justify the cuts.

DHS, which oversees FEMA, denied to CNN that the department ever considered imposing a blanket ban on Muslim organizations receiving these security grants.

“DHS and FEMA do not make policy decisions on the basis of religion,” a DHS spokesperson wrote in a statement. “Such claims are ludicrous and deeply unserious.”

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1 posted on 10/11/2025 10:29:30 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

A crazy thing we learned in the 90s was that the democrats had been paying millions to Farrakhan’s armed and militant race hate group, the Black Muslims, for running security in government housing.


2 posted on 10/11/2025 10:35:54 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe Islam is a foreign terrorist organization.


3 posted on 10/11/2025 10:41:58 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A muslim can not take an oath to support the constitution. It is anathema to their religion.


4 posted on 10/11/2025 10:42:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’d love to know the security grants given to Christians by Muslim nations. /sarc


5 posted on 10/11/2025 10:42:24 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Top brass at the Department of Homeland Security approached the Federal Emergency Management Agency this spring with a proposal: What if the agency blocked millions of dollars in security grants awarded to Muslim organizations around the country?”

Muslims don’t “migrate” to assimilate”, they “invade to conquer”. The US better eyeball what is happening in the UK, the EU and the Scandinavian countries before it’s too late.


6 posted on 10/11/2025 10:45:01 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: reasonisfaith

“DHS and FEMA do not make policy decisions on the basis of religion,”

It is debatable that Islam is a religion at all.

Surah 98 ayat 6

“The unbelievers among the people of the Book (i.e. the Christians and the Jews) and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of Hell. They are the vilest of all creatures.”

The Koran itself is hate literature.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4343990/posts


7 posted on 10/11/2025 10:57:24 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Freepers disagree on many things, but Islam is one topic that gets mostly universal condemnation on this site. I am appalled and never realized that FEMA was awarding ‘security grants’ to Muslims to encourage their populating this country. Nothing like laying out a welcoming mat to a culture that’s hell bent on destroying us. A country that can’t identify a threat to its very existence is one that will soon disappear. If we can declare Antifa a terrorist entity it would not seem to me like a difficult leap to do the same for those who subscribe to and practice the Quranic teachings of Allah. We sit here today and mark the EU communities that are falling inextricably to Islam’s barbaric ways.


8 posted on 10/11/2025 1:48:44 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: MinorityRepublican

All I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9/12.

It should be banned everywhere.


9 posted on 10/11/2025 7:43:43 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (If the left was so damn smart why can't they answer simple questions?)
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