Of course. To do anything else would be “Islamophobic.”
“Gavin Newsom Gave Millions to Mosques that Cheer the Annihilation of Jews,” by Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, November 16, 2023:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) has awarded millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to mosques whose leaders have preached anti-Semitic hate and called for violence against Israel.
Newsom’s administration awarded $200,000 this year to the Sajjadia Islamic Society as part of its Nonprofit Security Grant program, which aims to help nonprofits protect against terrorist attacks. In a sermon at the mosque this month, the pro-Iran cleric Hamza Sodagar touted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and said that Allah sent “the rockets from Hamas or Hezbollah” to strike Israel. Newsom has also awarded grants to mosques like the Islamic Center of Hawthorne and Islamic Center of Riverside, whose imams have decried the “malevolence of the Jews” and prayed for Allah to “destroy them.”
All told, the Newsom administration has given $40 million to California mosques whose leaders cheer the annihilation of Jews and Israel. Such rhetoric could fuel precisely the kind of violence the grants are meant to prevent. Newsom, considered a future Democratic presidential contender, said last month he will double funding in his state for its nonprofit security program, citing the “unconscionable terrorist attacks in Israel.” Funds will be awarded to both synagogues and mosques, Newsom’s office said.
A spokesman for California’s Office of Emergency Services, which administers the grants, said after a Washington Free Beacon inquiry that it is investigating whether any of the mosques have breached their grant requirements by facilitating hate speech.
“If it is determined they have, their funding will be immediately revoked,” said Brian Ferguson. “As a matter of principle, the State of California rejects hate speech and discrimination in all of its forms. Such speech is a menace to democratic values, social stability and peace.”
Newsom gave $200,000 last year to the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco, where preacher Hussam Ayloush asserted in a Nov. 3 sermon that it is a “lie” that Hamas’s invasion of Israel last month was an “unprovoked attack.”
“If I hear that term again, I’ll go crazy,” he said. “Unprovoked in what dictionary?”
At the Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley, which received $200,000 this year, preacher Amir Mertaban expressed support for Iraqis who fought American forces and Palestinians currently fighting Israel.
“The Palestinian brothers and sisters that are fighting resistance, shame on you if you label them terrorists,” Mertaban said. He also disputed that Hamas fighters murdered innocent Israelis during the Oct. 7 invasion. “If you’re going to make a claim that Muslims killed innocent civilians, you better be able to prove it.”
Other grant recipients have served as breeding grounds for Islamist terrorists. Newsom’s office awarded $200,000 to the Islamic Center of San Diego, which served as the home mosque for two 9/11 hijackers. Its imam, Taha Hassane, said last month that “resistance [against Israel] is justified.”
“We cannot accuse somebody who is fighting for his life to be a terrorist. The terrorist is the one who started the occupation, not the one who is defending himself,” he said in an Oct. 20 sermon….
Wellington says
Gavin Newsome is in the mold of Obama and not Biden. Here’s the difference: Obama has been a smooth-talking fool and Biden has been a bumbling-talking fool. Newsome is “in league” with Obama and not Biden—but both “types” have been equally destructive to America. No doubt. And one knows this by now or should know it and those who still don’t are part of the problem presently destroying America from within before our very eyes.
maria says
Newscum should be indicted because he is a traitor who supports hamas
Indict him immediately, confiscate all his belongings and sentence him life without parole
janet says
Correct on all calls. Newscum is the one who gets away with his evil and why does not some partiot attack him, He has taken himself to the highest of evil to get away with supporting the Hamas devils.’. This cold weather should intensify those who want pay back at Newscum -I am not glad at living in a land that invites the enemy -(all that support ;islam and their ilk) They practice slavery just as they did over a thousand yrs. ago. The evil of islam reared it ugly head 600 yrs after CHRIST. And still they lie about this fact.
Please GOD reign fire and destruction on the Islam0nazis .
SJ says
You’re absolutely correct. This may sound conspiratorial but I believe Obama was a plant by Saudi Arabia. But anyway, there are currently six comments here and it’s great to see intelligent and informed discussion about what is going on. Now, what are we going to do about it?
Lisel Sipes says
I agree. Newsom, unlike most politicians who are out for money, is just plain evil and enjoys harming Americans. He has destroyed California and with that evil old bag of bones, Pelosi, has it in mind to ruin the rest of the country.
Billy Rhodes says
STEALTH JIHAD
rick says
What can Newsom say to these facts – “No one told me”? Looks like Democrats better keep looking for a candidate if Biden starts falling on his face and can’t identify or recall his associates names.
KoshsShadow says
Payment to prevent terrorism? Jizyah.
I know of one rabbinical organization that won’t comment on the Israel – Hamas war for fear of losing their tax-exempt status.
But let’s not forget the Islamic Society of Boston that got cheap city land to build a terror supporting mosque, and when their connections to terrorists was pointed out, sued Americans for Peace and Tolerance and the Boston Herald. Then, after discovery proved the terror connections, the ISB caved – but so did the Herald.
Westman says
We already know the game played in the Mosques. Tolerance for Jews in English; Hate and threats toward Jews in Arabic.
Hudders. says
What a deluded poisonous cretin Newsom is.
He may pay as much ‘please don’t attack me’ tax as he likes now,
But if the caliphate really comes to Californistan,
His scrawny neck will be chopped along with the other so called filthy unbelievers.
For you can’t make a deal with the devil & expect a fair return.
James Lincoln says
Westman,
You bring up a good point.
Law enforcement should hire some non-muslim police officers (likely ex-US military) who also speak Arabic – in order to keep a close eye on things.
Mick says
Yacef Saadi, an FLN leader, who admitted to using home-grown Islam as a weapon against the French, (1959 to 62), said that imported (Wahhabi) Islam was the main cause of the intra-Sunni civil war (1992 to 02). California will not achieve wellness/ balance by funding both Shia and Sunni.
SJ says
I found a devastating crime perpetrated by our U.S. State Department about what is now an Islamic Kosovo and printed it out, like I promised myself I would do in the future. What our U.S. State Department has done in Kosovo for Islam and against the Serbs and the deepening of the conflict we created there is frightening. We have developed a second type of religious war and land conflict similar to Israel – created by the US State Department and has now connected it deeply into the U.S. giving radical Islam a foothold in our nation. It’s as if the U.S. is now an Islamic nation. If they are doing this there, what else are they doing against US values around the world? Is the State Department going to deliberately push radical Islam and anti-American values around the world like they did in Afghanistan? It certainly looks like it!
What is very important and scary is what they did and continue to do behind our backs and without our knowledge. It reminds me of the Charlie Wilson war debacle- but the tentacles reach VERY deeply into our country now, but who in the U.S. is overseeing what they do.? No one. No one is watching or overseeing what they do, but the Islamists realize that no one pays attention and found a way in! We must have some oversight of the State Department, especially since we’ve let the enemy in our gates! In addition, it ruins the reputation of the United States, and broadens conflicts in that region that are NOT favorable to the U.S. or our values! No wonder the Russians and other nations there hate the U.S.., and I’m a staunch patriot and found it despicable, but who am I? Why doesn’t someone identify and follow what our government is doing there and other parts of the world?
All of these things affect us which is why Newsom is parading around with our enemies – and is probably paid handsomely to do it. We need to get our beautiful nation in order quickly!
Jim says
Probably Newsome is doing this in hopes of getting more votes from these groups. It does not matter to him what ideology they preach in their sermons.
Old Guy says
Why are our politicians always giving our American tax dollars away to countries and organizations that hate us and want to destroy our country? The BILLIONS of dollars that have gone out in foreign aid have helped no one but the political figures around the world and corporations. Those American tax dollars could have been spent right here in America improving our peoples lives and infrastructure. STOP FOREIGN AID.
If the American people want to help those in need throughout the world lets us do it through our churches and charities by voluntary contributions.