The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presents itself as an innocuous Muslim civil rights group. But CAIR finds itself under increasing scrutiny for its past allegedconnectionsto radical Islam, and for its ongoing rhetorical support for Hamas.

Last November, Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated CAIR a terrorist organization. The following month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis followed suit,citingCAIR’s being listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a major terrorism financing case two decades ago.

But as other states move to sideline CAIR, California is embracing it.

CAIR-CA, the organization’slargeststatewide affiliate, is flush with taxpayer cash. In the last five years, theCalifornia Department of Social Services(CDSS) has sent at least $41 million in combined state and federal grants to the group, according to the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN), a California-based nonprofit.

Much of that money, it turns out, comes from the federal government. And last year, it wasconfirmedthat the U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review was investigating whether CAIR-CA should remaineligible for taxpayer funds.

This report — based on a trove of documents provided to us by IAN — reveals good reason for the DOJ to be digging into CAIR-CA.

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It also raises serious questions about why Gavin Newsom’s government is funding such a radical organization.

CAIR was founded in 1994 with the ostensible aim of advancing Muslim-American civil rights. The organizationclaimsthat it “is not and never has been an agent” or affiliate of “any militant group.” But the historical record offers justification to question that characterization.

CAIR’s co-founders, Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, were leadingmembersof the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. That committee oversaw the creation of three other organizations that “effectively became the US-based Hamas infrastructure … to achieve the goal of supporting Hamas with media, money and political support,” according to a George Washington University Program on Extremismreport.

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