Report: Sen. Cornyn Funded Islamic Group Linked to Planned Texas Muslim Community, Terrorism, Antisemitism

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) recently fell under media scrutiny for praising the American branch of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), a charity that the U.S. State Department, multiple banking institutions, and several other governments have severed ties with due to concerns of terrorism and antisemitism — but he also voted for a bill that funneled USAID money and other federal grants to the organization.

The incumbent senator caught flak after Fox News reported this month that he had “repeatedly” voiced support for the international group’s wing based in the U.S., IRUSA — one of the Muslim organizations that provided funding to the Texas’s East Plano Islamic Center, the mosque behind the contentious planned Islamic community known as EPIC City.

Around this time last year, Cornyn sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting that the federal investigators look into the controversial community, citing concerns of “religious discrimination”