Mosque Tied To Islamic Extremists, Bombing ‘Co-Conspirator’ Gets DHS Grant Aimed At Preventing Terrorism

A Florida mosque tied to radical Muslim figures has received federal funding for a program aimed at preventing terrorist attacks.

The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded more than $440,000 to the Valrico-based Deen Center in Fiscal Year 2024, Florida records show. The Deen Center’s staff have promoted individuals who have defended violent “jihad,” called Jews “oppressors” and said “the Jews … control the whole world by the money,” among other extreme rhetoric, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.

The Deen Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

Deen Center founder Eddie Redzovic has hosted multiple extremists on his program “The Deen Show,” including a conspiracy theorist in 2020 who said 9/11 was a “false flag” designed to incite hatred toward Muslims while Redzovic expressed agreement. A Muslim guest in 2021 described “the Jews” as “the oppressors” and “our enemies.”

A 2023 guest on Redzovic’s show was a pastor who said that “the Jews have been doing Freemason secret rituals beneath the Temple Mount for quite some time in the tunnels.”