California Gov. Gavin Newsom has awarded millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to mosques whose leaders have preached anti-Semitic hate and called for violence against 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.
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.
"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.
Newsom's office awarded $200,000 to the Islamic Center of San Diego, which served as the home mosque for two 9/11 hijackers.
Newsom's office gave $200,000 to Masjed of Riverside, affiliated with the Islamic Center of Riverside, the one-time home of Syed Rizwan Farook, who murdered 14 people in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino in 2015.
The statement from Newsom's office announcing the doubling of the grant program quoted the head of California's chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group that the federal government has labeled a co-conspirator of Hamas.
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