Taneeza Islam refused to publically denounce the Muslim Brotherhood and its support of terrorist group Hamas at the University of South Dakota

On November 28, 2017 at the University of South Dakota Muenster University Center, Taneeza Islam presented, “Understanding Islamophobia and Anti-Refugee Bigotry in South Dakota.”   Sponsors of the presentation included South Dakota Voices for Peace (which is Taneeza’s non-profit), the USD International Office, the USD Office for Diversity, the USD Muslim Students’ Society, and the USD Center for Diversity & Community. The primary sponsor was Malachi Petersen, a USD graduate student studying public administration, who was quoted at the University web site:

“In the current political climate, it’s vital for students and young professionals to be able to sort fact from fiction when it comes to hot button topics such as immigration. As future leaders in politics, science, and business, it’s up to USD students to create an inclusive environment in our state and nation to promote economic growth and social equity for future generations."

His position fits nicely into the cultural Neo-Marxist social justice camp that has been pushed by American Universities for decades thanks to the efforts of those of the German Frankfurt School who came to America to escape Hitler.

Taneenza started her presentation out by saying that Islamophobia is rooted in xenophobia, which is a fear of people from different countries. She also mentioned those with “brown skin”, which clearly signaled her argument was based on the racist component of the cultural Neo-Marxist worldview fomented by the Frankfurt School.

Next she used two Center for American Progress publications titled “Fear, Inc.” The first was released in 2011 and was subtitled, “The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”. It claims that there is “not a vast right-wing conspiracy behind the rise of Islamophobia in our nation but rather a small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts” that “primarily starts with five key people and their organizations.” They are:

• Frank Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy
• David Yerushalmi at the Society of Americans for National Existence
• Daniel Pipes at the Middle East Forum
• Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and Stop Islamization of America
• Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism

The politically leftist Center for American Progress has a history of anti-Semitism which became evident in the report as they call those funding the Islamophobe Network as being supporters of conservative movements, and/or pro-Jewish.

The second Fear, Inc report came out in 2015 and added David Horowitz to the five key people. Taneeza used that report’s to say the network has fueled Islamophobia in the United States between 2001 and 2012 with $57 million in funding. That would be peanuts to the billions that George Soros has used to fund his Open Society Foundation that not only help fund the Center for American Progress, but also is funding a group in South Dakota called “Aberdeen Together”. Aberdeen, South Dakota is now targeted for refugee settlement because of its recently established meat packing plant that has a history of corruption which came out after a former economic development head committed suicide in 2013 while there was an investigation underway. I will later cover the billions of dollars sent by Saudi Arabia to fund Islamic supremacy worldwide, including America.

Next Taneeza used the discredited Southern Law Poverty Center’s hate map to single out the handful of South Dakota organizations that made their list, including the polygamist Latter-day Saints cult. She mocked the Clarion Project’s Faithkeepers for their stand against ISIS persecution of Christians in Egypt by pointing out more Muslims are being persecuted by ISIS in Egypt than Christians. Why can’t we agree that it is wrong to persecute any group of people? Instead Taneeza is intent on having a fight.

Soon after that she said we believe Jesus was a holy prophet. In 2008 Taneeza, as CAIR-MN ‘s Civil Rights Director, filed a complaint with the parent company of Long John Silvers because a three-year-old Muslin received a kids meal that included a notepad that said “Build with Jesus” and also contained a Bible verse. In her press release Taneeza said, “"It would be more appropriate if the restaurant offered toys that included wisdom from different faiths and offered a non-religious alternative." So she seems to not care about the civil rights of those who believe in the exclusivity of Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God. You see, Allah had no son.

It should also be noted that in Sioux Falls, SD on April 9, 2017 she lead a protest by Muslims and inter-faith activists against Shahram Hadian, a Muslim convert to Christianity. Keep reading on as her anti-Christian Islamist supremacy becomes clearer and clearer, along with her stealth tactics in implementing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Civilizational Jihad.

Taneeza then began covering her efforts lobbying the South Dakota legislature early in 2017. On her South Dakota Voices For Peace web site, a 501(c)(3) whose fiscal sponsor is the United Church of Christ, Spirit of Peace, Sioux Falls, SD, she said, “when I was alerted that there had been an anti-refugee bill introduced at our state capital, Pierre, SD. I dusted off my advocacy hat and started reaching out to my network of immigration lawyers, social justice activists, and interfaith leaders. I even took a chance and emailed the CEO of Lutheran Social Services, Betty Oldenkamp, telling her that LSS was not alone.” South Dakota Lutheran Social Services receives grant money to place immigrants in South Dakota and Taneeza Islam has an immigration law office, so there is a financial conflict of interest regarding both in regard to immigration issues.

During the USD presentation Taneeza said, "This resolution primarily asked law enforcement and other government agencies not to work with CAIR affiliates. During my testimony, I argued that because there is no CAIR chapter here in South Dakota, if we just inserted the word ‘Muslim’ instead of ‘CAIR’ into the resolution, it was asking law enforcement and government agencies not to work with Muslim communities."

CAIR does not need a chapter in South Dakota, because they have Taneeza Islam to carry water for them. Taneeza worked as a so-called Civil Rights Director for CAIR-MN from 2008 to 2012. The resolution should have been a warning in regard to Taneeza Islam, as she has brought CAIR’s agenda to South Dakota, and should be considered CAIR’s unofficial affiliate. CAIR reported on her April 9^th protest of Christian pastor Shahram Hadian on their National Facebook page. Sadly, South Dakota’s media and law enforcement agencies don’t have enough understanding, which is partially caused by the Marxists, Islamists, and inter-faith apostates joining forces to denigrate those exposing the truth by calling them racists, bigots and Islamophobes.

During the USD presentation, Taneeza bragged about all the attention she got from the South Dakota media in regard to her lobbying. Keloland, a CBS affiliate, quoted Taneeza in regard to the CAIR resolution, "This is a thinly-veiled attempt to tell Muslims in South Dakota that we're quashing your civil rights and civil liberties." And, "It shocks my conscience that South Dakota legislators would be using such hate and fear-mongering tactics." And, "They're sending a very clear message that they don't want Muslims to be here or that we don't have the same rights as everybody else and I take it as a very direct attack."

All of those quotes are smokescreens designed to distract from the discussion on the real agenda of CAIR. The resolution was not a direct attack on Muslims, but a sincere concern regarding CAIR’s involvement with terrorist organizations. Instead of listening to those warning South Dakota about this Muslim Brotherhood front that was created in 1993 by pro-Hamas activists in Philadelphia, the Fraternal Order of Police decided to join forces with Taneeza. During the USD presentation she said the Fraternal Order of Police joining in with their cause "was very pivotal for our coalition and the momentum that we garnered." South Dakota’s law enforcement is lacking the ability to understand the tactics being used by Muslim Brotherhood propagandists.

A little research uncovers Taneeza’s anti-law enforcement history. In 2009, as Civil Rights Director for CAIR-MN, Taneeza protested students being investigated by the FBI in regard to the whereabouts of several male Somali students whom have gone missing and were suspected of leaving the US to fight in Somalia’s long-running civil war. Islam said, “Students' legal rights need to be upheld and they aren't currently being afforded the only true legal protection they have when talking to the law enforcement - an attorney." So students have to hire an attorney in order to help law enforcement find missing Somali students? Why would Taneeza not be concerned about the missing Somalia students? It does seem possible that her actions helped to instill fear of law enforcement in the people in the Muslim communities.

And there is more in regard to Taneeza’s involvement with Muslim Brotherhood front groups. She was National Youth Program Development Coordinator for the Islamic Society of North America form August 2003 to October 2004.  Shariq Ahmed Siddiqui, whose Doctorate thesis titled, “Navigating Identity Through Philanthropy: A History of the Islamic Society of North America (1979–2008)" was accepted by the Graduate Faculty of Indiana University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and published in November 2014, includes this:

“ISNA also recruited a series of American-born Muslims to work and lead departments. Taneeza Islam for Youth, Fawad Siddiqui and later Deana Othman for Islamic Horizons, Sarah Thompson for communications, Urooj Qureshi for convention programs, and Nida Saleem within the ISNA Development Foundation are just a few examples of this growing trend.”

“In 2003, prior to the establishment of the Youth Department, ISNA hired a youth coordinator, Taneeza Islam, to oversee its youth activities and to help create a framework for this work at its headquarters. Islam was unique to the ISNA staff in a number of ways. She was a second-generation Muslim American, and by hiring someone who could understand their experiences, ISNA reaffirmed its commitment to youth. Also, at the time, she was the first Bengali American hired to the staff. Islam had not been involved with MYNA, MSA, or ISNA prior to being hired and came from outside ISNA's traditional factions. Finally, Islam became the second female to lead a department at ISNA's headquarters.

The Youth Department's initial tasks were to take over the ISNA internship program, become an advisor to MYNA, organize youth aspects of the national and regional conferences, and reach out to interfaith partners such as the Boy Scouts of America and the Interfaith Youth Core.469 Islam also organized a MYNA conference under the theme “Painting Our Future With Colors of the Past” in the hope of reenergizing the MYNA alumni base. She also coordinated a series of national Islamic entertainment events in four cities across the country. Islam’s role was to help initiate the revival and to develop a framework for MYNA. In 2004, Islam left ISNA to attend law school.”

Perhaps this was when the American born Taneeza Islam was indoctrinated with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Wahhabi based doctrines. At a MYNA [Muslim Youth of North America] web blog Siddiqui provides more details on Taneeza’s involvement with ISNA:

“End of March/Start of April 2003 – Taneeza Islam inquires about the “ISNA/MYNA Youth Coordinator” position on http://www.isna.net/ and is invited by the Secretary General and head of the Community Development Dept. for a few-days visit to ISNA Headquarters which goes well for her.

Aug. 17, 2003 - Taneeza Islam is officially hired by ISNA Headquarters to fill the Youth Coordinator position. She is first told she will be the head of a new “ISNA Youth Department,” but then placed in the Community Development Department. Then it’s said it is only for training until she is oriented and has built up enough steam, and then she can build her own Youth Department. Shariq Siddiqui and Taneeza spend the next couple of months working on an action plan for the next year. Meanwhile the Strategic Planning Youth Committee has been left in the dark about the position and is updated and ask for input on the process.

Oct. 4, 2003 - MYNA Committee members Asim Muhammad, Asad Siddiqui, Riyad Shamma and Hassan Siddiqi come to Headquarters for ISNA Majlis Meeting and give a presentation on their efforts’ progress. Also, Taneeza Islam and the fledgling ISNA Youth effort under Community Development Department present their plan for youth work as well. Both are brought in line with each other and the MYNA Committee plans on working with the ISNA Strategic Planning Youth committee as well. Taneeza basically becomes the MYNA Youth Coordinator at the headquarters, fulfilling the project set in motion in 1999.”

After law school, Taneeza worked as a Complaint Investigator for the City of Minneapolis while at the same time, involved with CAIR-MN as its first Civil Rights Director until March 2012, Then she made a move to South Dakota and worked as a Contract Attorney for Sioux Falls law firm Johnson, Heidepriem, Abdallah LLP. She opened her own Sioux Falls law firm in November 2013. She claims the election of Donald Trump was the motivation behind her current activism in 2017. At an ISNA convention last summer, Linda Sarsour declared a Jihad against President Trump. Web site “South Dakota Together” has a screen shot of Taneeza’s Facebook that included a picture of a group of women that includes Taneeza and Sarsour. That invoked this response form the web site’s author:

“Hate resides in Sioux Falls.  Its name is Taneeza Islam.

Look who is hanging out with the queen of hate who has known terrorist relatives currently in jail.   Could it be?  Taneeza Islam?  Yep. Right there with a big ole compassionate smile while joining an anti you and I march.  Clearly enjoying herself along with none other than Linda Sarsour.  Is there any mystery as to why Taneeza is on a maniacal and tyrannical rant against local citizens?  Any mystery as to why she is pushing the equivalent of mid east sharia in our own state by advertising for people to call and turn in people that don't fit her agenda so that she can go after them?  No mystery at all when your circle of influence looks like hers. -- oh yeah, we forgot...she used to work for CAIR in Minnesota.  Outstanding history.”

Leo Hohmann also reported that Taneeza Islam had connections with Linda Sarsour.

During the November USD presentation, Taneeza painted a moderate picture of Sharia, and attacked the Islamophobe Network for creating “Sharia Hysteria” with the sole purpose of making money. She said, “Sharia Law is not a thing, Okay. It is a concept designed by the Islamophobe Network to really play on the fears in those who don’t know otherwise. She then portrayed Sharia as something like the Ten Commandants, but more. “It is how we treat out neighbor, how I give charity, how I pray. But according to this Islamophobe Network, Sharia Law is really a totalitarian regime where the Muslims have a caliphate ruling. A very extreme, very violent practices such as chopping off heads,” She then says, "People are making a lot of money by propagating these ideals and demonizing otherwise innocent and loving people. As I mentioned before, Islam is practiced by 1.5 billion people worldwide. There are Muslims in every country, on every continent, that speak every language and are part of every culture. It’s not just something in the Middle East. It’s not just something in North Africa — it’s worldwide."

Taneeza’s argument again comes straight out of the leftist Center for American Progress’s 2011 Fear, Inc.:

“This small band of radical ideologues has fought to define Sharia as a “totalitarian ideology” and “legal-political-military doctrine” committed to destroying Western civilization. But a scholar of Islam and Muslim tradition would not recognize their definition of Sharia, let alone a lay practicing Muslim.

In fact, Sharia is followed in part and in different ways by every practicing Muslim. There are no Ten Commandments that make up Sharia. Instead, it is, for Muslims, the ideal law of God as interpreted by Muslim scholars over centuries to achieve justice, fairness, and mercy, primarily through personal religious observances such as prayer and fasting.

But by intentionally misdefining Sharia itself as the problem, the misinformation experts profiled in this chapter are effectively arguing that only the extremists’ interpretations of Islam are authentic, and that therefore the diversity of moderate interpretations within Islam is meaningless. They also cast suspicion upon all observant American Muslims.”

Actually, the misinformation is coming from the left. The counter terrorism experts are exposing the Islamists, and not calling all Muslim terrorists. I will now present research that proves the counter terrorism experts are mostly telling the truth.

I will start with the same Center of American Progress 2011 Fear, Inc. report, where we learn that there are reliable sources. This is from page 22:

“In 2009, the last year for which we have complete financial information, the Fairbrook Foundation provided tens of thousands of dollars to mainstream conservative foundations that are not Islamophobic, such as the Hudson Institute and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.”

So since the Hudson Institute is not part of the so-called Islamophobe Network, we should be able to rely on a February 2008 Hudson Institute published must read analysis by Zeyno Baran titled, “The Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. Network.” It is very important we keep the following Baran points in mind as we hear more from Taneeza on what exactly is Sharia:

“Broadly, the label Islamist applies to individuals or groups who believe that Islam should be a comprehensive guide to life. Islamists do not accept that the interpretation of Islam could evolve over the centuries along with human beings’ understanding, or that the religion could be influenced or modified by the cultures and traditions of various regions. Nor do they recognize that Islam can be limited to the religious realm, or to simply providing its followers with a code of moral and ethical principles. With this definition in mind, a nonviolent, American-born Islamist should not be considered an ally of the U.S. Yet a devout, conservative Muslim immigrant to Europe—one who does not even speak any Western languages but rejects Islamist ideology—could be.”

There is two points from the above excerpt that must be well understood as we analyze Taneeza Islam’s political rhetoric. First, critics are not painting all Muslims with the same brush. There is a difference between moderate Muslims and those that are “Islamists.” Second, unlike moderates Muslims, Islamists reject the idea that Islam is evolving and adjusting to cultures and traditions of various regions. These Islamists are using American Mosques and Islamic Centers to convert moderate Arab Americans into Civilizational Jihadists in order to install Sharia Law. After the presentation and during the Q&A, an audience member wanted more details on what Sharia is. Taneeza painted moderate version of Islam by saying Sharia has thousands of years of jurisprudence that it is “evolving”, conceptualizing with culture, and is very complicated. She then repeated the claim that Sharia was “evolving” guiding principles that Muslims follow. These two points are very important to understanding why I asked what I asked as the last question of the day. Would Taneeza denounce those Islamists who reject her evolving moderate version of Sharia.

Taneeza then referred the question to a lady, who said she was from Saudi Arabia, for more insight into the real Sharia. She first pointed out that 100 scholars could have 100 different answers to a particular Sharia question. She said, “it is up to you, if you are a practicing Muslim, to say what makes sense to you and what aligns with your moral code. That is why Sharia Law is so complicated.” Obviously they were playing to the liberals here. No wonder liberal so-called Christians, who want to pick and choose what Biblical principle they want to follow, would enter into an inter-faith relationship with these propagandists who are portraying all Muslims as moderates, and honor them as fellow social justice warriors.

Baran’s Hudson Institute report helps us understand that Taneeza’s agenda is to falsely change the perception of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology into a moderate one:

‘The 1960s was also when Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi establishment began its global Islamization project, partnering with Brotherhood members who had left countries where the group was targeted for repression. One former U.S. Treasury official estimated that the Saudi government has spent some $75 billion supporting Islam and Islamic institutions worldwide. In 1962, the Muslim World League (MWL) was established in Mecca, with Brotherhood members in key leadership positions, to propagate Wahhabism worldwide. Over the ensuing decades, the MWL has funded many legitimate charitable endeavors but also a number of Islamist projects. Some of this money has come to support Brotherhood activists in the U.S., in part to change the perception of Wahhabism in America from “extremist” to “mainstream.”’

The lady from Saudi Arabia continues with an argument that seems to put the so-called Islamophobes into the same camp as the Islamic terrorists. She finds it interesting that the Islamophobe industry is propagating the same kind of idea of Islam that the terrorists are propagating. That as a Muslim, it is very frustrating that this is the face that is being placed on all Muslims. She then referred to Taneeza’s point regarding the persecution of Egyptian Muslims and then said that Sunnis, who are the majority of Muslims, are in a Mosque having prayer and 30% of them are wiped out by those who have the same ideas that are being spread by Islamophobes. So those counterterrorism experts, who are warning Americans, including moderate American Arabs, about the Muslim Brotherhood agenda, are part of the problem? This misinformed lady has things 180 degrees backwards. First, the counter terrorism experts coming to South Dakota are not saying all Muslims are Jihadi terrorists. In fact Shahram Hadian said that truly moderate Arab Americans are being victimized and need to hear the truth about what is happening in America. They are here to help us understand how these Islamists have infiltrated our country and are working to destroy our system in order to establish a worldwide Islamic State.

Baran’s Hudson Institute report gives us the real scoop on who is behind the promotion of Jihadi activity worldwide:

“Even though the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) does not openly call for violence or terrorism, it still does little to oppose it. In fact, it may provide an ideological springboard for future violence. This is not to say that all Salafis will one day become terrorists; the vast majority will never engage in violence and likely abhor terrorist acts. Nevertheless, the first step on the road to jihadi terrorism is instruction in Islamist ideology. Nearly all individuals involved in terrorism—whether as a foot soldiers executing the attack or an upper level mastermind, financier, or recruiter—start out as non-violent Salafi Islamists, and many were once Brotherhood members.”

At this point I was really shocked that these people were really blaming those who were warning Americans, including Muslims, about the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood for being the ones responsible for promoting terrorism and the persecution of “moderate” Muslms. Do these two not know the truth or were these ladies purposely putting on a propaganda program. Initially, I decided to come to the presentation in order to learn more about the thinking of Taneeza Islam. I was not planning on asking any questions, but the discussion was heading in a direction that set up a very important question.

I was about to raise my hand when the primary sponsor decided to ask Taneeza about how feminism intersects with her religion in regard to the issue of women wearing the hijab. Taneeza responded by saying she will piggyback off what was already said. That with any religion, and with Islam, there is a continuum of liberal and conservative. The way we look to finding the answer is through reading the Quran and the teachings of Mohammed and scholars. She then said the decision lies with myself. The hijab means “modesty” and in context of American culture she chooses to dress modesty by not wearing shorts or tank tops. And she was not wearing a hijab, nor was she wearing one in the many pictures and TV news interviews that I witnessed. She went on to say that she knows some women who wear the hijab for political and not religious reasons.

There at the end she could have very well to have been talking about Linda Sarsour who was quoted to say, “When I wasn’t wearing a hijab I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City. Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.” That would be a typical attitude of one who is practicing identity politics.

I found her overall analysis of the liberal Sharia interpretation of the hijab very odd coming from a CAIR-MN Civil Rights Director who in 2011 responded to a sheriff that would not allow a female Muslim to wear a scarf in jail with this:

"A Muslim woman's practice of wearing a headscarf is a sincerely held belief which is a protected exercise of her religion. Asking her to remove her headscarf is asking her to be naked in front of others. A headscarf, unlike a crucifix or other ornament, is not a mere accessory but an essential article of clothing for those Muslim women who practice it."

So in 2011, we see her anti-Christian Islamist supremacy being used to implement Sharia Law by using a religious rights argument, but on November 28^th she is saying that the hajib is a personal choice when arguing Islam is exclusively a moderate belief system. Should we now lean toward the November 28^th presentation being false propaganda intended to mislead those who don’t know better?

In 2009, the Minnesota legislature was working on a bill that would require that the full head and face be shown on driver's license photos and state ID cards except for headwear needed in connection with medical treatments or deformities. Taneeza said:

"We don't want this to turn into a Muslim issue. We are saying this is an issue that touches all faiths in which believers wear something on their heads."

Again we have another example when working for a Muslim Brotherhood front in Minnesota, wearing a hajib is religious right, but now while trying to paint Muslims as moderates, the hajib is a personal choice.

So as the primary sponsor of the USD presentation announced there was time for one more question I raised my hand and asked:

“So as we talk about the evolution of Sharia, there are members of a group called the Muslim Brotherhood who argue we are going too far away from the foundational belief system of Muhammed, and they want to restore that and actually implement full Sharia, establish a caliphate and implement full blown worldwide Sharia Law. And do you denounce the Muslim Brotherhood for that position and their support of Hamas.”

Taneeza’s response:

“I denounce terrorism in all its forms. I don’t know what your definition of Sharia is, but my definition of Sharia does not match up with your question. So we need to back up and talk outside about what Sharia is, because that was the whole point of that slide, was to tell you that what the average person understand about Sharia is not in fact what it is. Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas…(she hesitated, giggled, hesitated)…there are generations of history that go into these organizations, Why they were formulated and why they exist. There is political parties, there is military, there is a whole bunch of stuff that cannot be answered in one minute. So I am going to prefer to talk to you off line.”

Taneeza used the typical Islamist propaganda technique of denouncing terrorism, but not publically denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood nor Hamas, who is officially a terrorist group. She starting her non-answer with the premise that I am talking about terrorism, and she is talking about moderate Islam. My question was about denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood’s “conservative” Wahhabi brand of Islam that rejects the “liberal” evolving so-called moderate brand. The question did not have anything to do with my definition of Sharia. She was trying to recreate the smokescreen that my question had blown away. She did not want her real agenda to be exposed. And that agenda would be setting up South Dakota to go down the Muslim Brotherhood’s path of Civilizational Jihad and the implementation of Sharia Law in South Dakota, just like she did in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

In order to provide further insight on whether Taneeza is unknowingly being a useful tool for the Muslim Brotherhood, or was she intentionally deceiving her audience, we should take her lead and look into her history as it relates to the Muslim Brotherhood front groups. The long history of the Muslim Brotherhood that she brought up includes her cutting edge efforts as the first Youth Coordinator for ISNA and as first Civil Rights Director for CAIR-MN. Leo Hohmann reports on her latest act of implementing Sharia Law in South Dakota:

There are new indications that forces on the left are building coalitions with Muslim Brotherhood fronts and fanning out across the U.S. in search of meetings, conferences, even informal church gatherings where Islam might be discussed in a negative light.

When they find them, they pounce.

The latest attempt to shut down a meeting in which a speaker was planning to provide information critical of Islam occurred in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Ron Branstner, a researcher based out of St. Cloud, Minnesota, had booked space at the Sioux Falls History Club for Oct. 26. This is a club that has a 100-year history of discussing world events from the perspective of free and open debate.

But while driving to the event Thursday night, Branstner received phone a call from the venue and was told not to come. A powerful Democratic politician with connections to the history club had been contacted by a Muslim lawyer named Taneeza Islam.

Apparently, that’s all it takes in Sioux Falls to shut down the First Amendment, said Branstner, whose presentation was focused, ironically, on Islam and the First Amendment.

Hohmann’s report included Shahram Hadian’s experience with Taneeza Islam:

“She’s connected to that mosque in Sioux Falls, and very politically active,” Hadian said.

And that mosque, the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls, is owned lock, stock and barrel by the North American Islamic Trust or NAIT, which has been linked to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood.

“She was there at a protest outside the hotel where I spoke in April, she was with the imam doing the prayers, they had all the interfaith people standing around them with their backs to the Muslims and their faces turned out while the Muslims were doing their prayers, that’s a great picture of how foolish these people are,” Hadian said of the April event.

Baran’s Hudson Institute report also provides us with some history on the Muslim Brotherhood’s use of Mosques in America:

“By the late 1970s it became clear that many of the students who had come to the US from the Middle East and South Asia were not returning home. Following the Iranian revolution of 1979, the Saudis/Wahhabis intensified their focus on American Muslims, as more funds and more literature flowed into the country. During this period, NAIT received funds and was able to take control of American mosques. Today, NAIT’s website claims that it owns approximately 300 Islamic centers, mosques, and schools in the U.S. Other NAIT documents indicate that in 2002 it held the deed to 20 percent of America’s approximately 1,200 mosques at that time. However, some assess that NAIT’s influence is even greater. In 2003, one national security expert claimed that NAIT owns or controls the physical assets of 75 percent of U.S. mosques and that ISNA (a NAIT affiliate— see below) controls their ideological content.”

Baran also provides us with history on ISNA, where Taneeza worked has its first Youth Program Coordinator:

Another major organization founded in 1981 with the involvement of American Muslim Brotherhood related entities NAIT and the MSA was the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a self-described umbrella organization for all Muslims in North America. ISNA was incorporated in Indiana on July 14, 1981 “to advance the cause of Islam and service Muslims in North America so as to enable them to adopt Islam as a complete way of life.“ For those familiar with Islamism, this is a clear statement. ISNA represents a continuation of the MSA. According to the Brotherhood’s own internal documents, “the Muslim Students Union [i.e. the MSA] was developed into the Islamic Society in North America (ISNA) to include all the Muslim congregations from immigrants and citizens, and to be a nucleus for the Islamic Movement in North America.”

Baran also exposes Hamas:

“Though many American Islamist organizations deny any connection to Hamas, given its use of violence and terrorism, the direct links between Hamas and the Brotherhood are indisputable. In fact, Article 2 of the Hamas Charter states:

The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a world organization, the largest Islamic Movement in the modern era. It is characterized by a profound understanding, by precise notions and by a complete comprehensiveness of all concepts of Islam in all domains of life: views and beliefs, politics and economics, education and society, jurisprudence and rule, indoctrination and teaching, the arts and publications, the hidden and the evident, and all other domains of life.”

So perhaps the reason why Taneeza Islam did not denounce the Muslim Brotherhood and their support of Hamas is that their history includes Taneeza Islam. If she was truly a liberal “moderate” Muslim, then she would be at odds with the Muslim Brotherhood’s conservative Wahhabi specific Salafism, and could quickly denounce them. Instead she is providing them a smokescreen so that the Wahhabists can infiltrate South Dakota and perform a Civilization Jihad that will lead to South Dakota being converted into an Islamic State that enforces Sharia Laws.

I would like to expose one more thing that this propagandist is trying to pull. On her South Dakota Voices for Peace, Taneeza provides an example of her smokescreen:

“We thought we could catch our breath, to think and act strategically, but since January South Dakota has been home to 24 Islamophobic and anti-immigrant/refugee speakers – what I call “imported hate”. So we’ve been busy, being strategic, exposing Islamophobic speakers in the media, to legislators and community leaders. We’ve been providing accurate information so the public can decide what this bigotry looks like, feels like and how it is impacting us – the exact purpose of Free Speech. Bigots can say all the hateful things they want or write anonymous blogs about people, their beliefs, their religion, their lifestyles. And calling it an intrusion on “Freedom of Speech” again exposes how little is understood about our Constitution and the protections it affords all of us. There is no protection on First Amendment grounds against private entities. The Constitution protects free speech from GOVERNMENT intrusion and in public spaces. The rest is up to the public to decide.”

So if the First Amendment should not be enforced on private entities, why did Taneeza as Civil Rights Director of CAIR-MN go after private entity Long John Silvers for handing out notepads with Bible verses, and private entity Gruma Corporation’s dress code that she claimed violated female Muslim’s religious beliefs, and private entity Old Country Buffet for enforcing its dress code regarding head wear, and private entity Electrolux for not allowing Muslim employees to break their Ramaden fast on time, and private entity H.J. Heinz for not allowing prayer accommodations for Muslims. And why did she go after the Sioux Falls Hilton Garden Inn about whether their event policy excluded hate speech prior to Shahram Hadian, a converted Muslim coming to talk about his Truth IN Love project? Don’t Muslims have the First Amendment right to convert to Christianity? Can’t they explain to others why they converted?

Those are all probably more questions that Taneeza will not be able to answer honestly without blowing her agenda. It seems that she is the one that is working to import hate from foreign sources who believe their Islamic way of life is superior to ours. It does seem that Taneeza’s actions points to a concept that civil rights only apply to believers of Islam, and not to infidels. South Dakota’s multicultural Neo-Marxist left and the inter-faith activists are making a huge mistake if they think Taneeza really cares about equality.

Comments

[larry kurtz]

South Dakota is the Land of Infinite Variety except for white christians like you, Steve.

Death to Israel.

[KM]

Well done, Steve, well done.

Great question. Reminds me of when Ben Shapiro asks Florida CAIR Director,Hassan Shibly, to denounce the MBH and Hamas, you're never going to guess what he said....yep, the exact same thing taneeza said.

I also have seen a video on YouTube with Horowitz asking a USCD Muslim student to do the same thing and the student wouldn't do it either.

Doesn't the koran encourage lying to deceive us?

al-Taqiyya:
deception; the islamic word for concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies.

MPLS may be lost, but with people like you and others that support you, Aberdeen and other SD cities may not turn into a dumpster fire. Where's the mayor on these issues?

[larry kurtz]

Everything east of Oacoma is Cleveland for sure. Minneapolis is lost like Trump is a christian.

[larry kurtz]

"KM" reads like Michael Gohn who cut his balls off to become a non-man.

[Malachi]

Steve,

Thanks for coming out to the event last month! I appreciated your question! Hopefully you were able to chat with Taneeza about some of the concerns you've posted here after the event was over. Irregardless, I'm glad that you were willing to be exposed to a viewpoint that countered your own. We need more of that from all sides! I once had a very wise criminal justice professor tell my class that in order to be students of the world we need to "look around the lantern" every once in awhile (which is how I found myself on this blog).

Best,

Malachi Petersen*

*Contrary to this post, not a Neo-Marxist :)

[KM]

I'll just leave this here...

http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/17/linda-sarsour-accused-of-enabling-sexual-assault-against-woman-who-worked-for-her/

[Steve Sibson]

Malachi, thanks for the comment. I have put it up on a separate post. I will be emailing you.

[Steve Sibson]

KM, thanks for the link. I wonder if the leftists will include Muhammad and now Sarsour on their black list, due to their alleged sexual misconducts?

[KM]

You are welcome.

Anything to help expose the real war on women.

[larry kurtz]

Hey, Steve: you're welcome for my driving traffic to your blog!