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U.S. Program Meant to Protect Jewish Institutions Gives Grants to Mosques that Preach Anti-Semitic Hate
(Washington Free Beacon) Chuck Ross - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded $150,000 in grants since November to Masjid Jamaat al Mumineen, the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent, and the Islamic Center of Bothell as part of its "Nonprofit Security Grant Program." But in a sermon last month, Nader Taha, the imam of the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent, called the Oct. 7 attacks a "miracle" that "planted the seed of freedom in the heart of not just only the Muslim world, but the whole world." Kent State University, where Taha works as a math lecturer, condemned Taha's remarks as "anti-Semitic." Masjid Jamaat al Mumineen, a South Florida mosque led by Imam Izhar Khan, promotes numerous books on its website that preach violence against Jews and Christians. In 2011, Khan was indicted on charges of funding the Pakistani Taliban. At the Islamic Center of Bothell, located outside Seattle, Moosa Salie, the current imam, served until last year as an official at South Africa's Council of Muslim Theologians, which declared in September that "We are all Hamas." Another preacher at the Bothell mosque, Alaa Badr, was accused in a lawsuit last year of openly praising Hamas and cheering the murder of Israelis.