Why is Cair urging US Muslims to seek security from DHS?

Why is Cair urging US Muslims to seek security from DHS? Submitted by Muneeza Rizvi on Fri, 06/26/2026 - 22:15 The grant push is only the latest in the civil rights group's decades of steering Muslims towards the institutions that surveil, entrap and deport them Police and officials brief the media after a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on 18 May 2026 (Carlos A Moreno/Getty Images via AFP) Off Applications for this year's round of security grants from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) close on 24 July - and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) is urging mosques, Islamic schools and Muslim nonprofits to apply before the deadline. Since May's mosque shooting in San Diego, which killed three people, Cair has aggressively pursued renewed Muslim community access to this source of government funding, presenting it as a means of protecting mosques from such violence.