On January 10, 2018 we experienced the Muslim Brotherhood's latest action to infiltrate South Dakota's state government with their interfaith tactic. Here is more on how this developed:
Lutheran Day has been on the calendar for several years at the Capitol, according to Bishop David Zellmer of the South Dakota Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), who addressed the group in the Rotunda. But this year he and other religious leaders across the state invited representatives of a raft of different religions – several Christian denominations, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, among others.
A flyer distributed in the Rotunda described what prompted the inclusion of additional religious traditions: “[W]e have recently witnessed a rise in activities that degrade other religions and denies the religious freedom of many, especially Muslims and Jews.”
Here is more from their press release:
We are people of different faiths across South Dakota who, in keeping with this state’s and country’s traditions and values, are committed to ending anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic sentiment in our state and in our country.
The press release also has a list of promoters who called the event includes Taneeza Islam South Dakota Voices for Peace. She refused to denounce anti-Semitic terrorist group Hamas on November 28, 2017 at the University of South Dakota. Previous to coming to South Dakota, she was Civil Rights director of CAIR-MN. On November 18, CAIR-MN leader, also refused to denounce Hamas:
Symposium speakers Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, at the St. Cloud Public Library were, from left, John Matsunaga, Sally Sudo, professor Yuichiro Onishi and CAIR Minnesota Director Jaylani Hussein.
The Minnesota leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations was asked during a community meeting Saturday if he would renounce the terrorist organization Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
He refused.
The event at the St. Cloud Public Library was part of CAIR’s ongoing “anti-Islamophobia” campaign that it launched in the wake of the election one year ago of President Donald Trump.
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Local resident Elizabeth Baklaich reminded the professor that America “already had that trigger moment.”
“That trigger moment was 9/11. There were 3,000 people who died,” she said. “… [T]hat was a direct attack that was followed up by war, and if we were going to make this same maneuver against Muslims, it would have happened. … I just wanted to bring that up because I think that’s a fundamental flaw in your thesis,” Baklaich said.
To Hussein, she directed another question.
“I heard you talk about fear Jaylani, and there’s one thing you could do very easily that would help alleviate a tremendous amount of fear in this community,” Baklaich said.
She reminded him of the FBI evidence presented in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial of 2007 that showed CAIR is a front group for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
“If you want to be our friend, and you want to be part of the community, and want us to accept you more, and work with you and be less fearful of what’s coming in, and what’s going on, are you willing to condemn both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood?” she asked.
In a rambling response that quickly morphed into a stern lecture before ending with a hostile rebuke, Hussein refused to condemn either Hamas or the Brotherhood.
Here is an excerpt of his response, captured on audio tape:
CAIR is the largest civil rights and civil liberties organization. We have 35 chapters across the United States. We’re an American organization. We are a grassroots organization, supported and funded by people locally, made up of people who look like you and look like me. I understand that my organization comes under threat and know why we come under attack. It’s not because of our silence. It’s because we carry a big stick, we remind people of the Constitution. We remind people that American Muslims are exactly like everyone else. And we’re not gonna allow anyone to threaten us, or create the fact that Muslims have to hide, and so we are an organization just like any other organization. We get audited. We get reviewed, we are a state-accredited organization and so if you think we are a terrorist organization then call the FBI and let them know, and let them investigate.
Hussein accused the woman of using the “talking points” of well-funded “anti-Muslim organizations” that spread “lies” about Muslims across the U.S.
Another woman interjected with the same question for Hussein.
“Do you renounce Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood?” she can be heard saying on the audio recording.
“I am a civil rights organization in the state of Minnesota,” Hussein continued.
“That means no. … So you do support Hamas?” she asked again.
“The questions you are asking me, you didn’t come up with them. You downloaded them from somewhere,” Hussein said.
“So what? I can see the trial [documents] right here. I’ve got it right here,” she said.
“That’s good for you,” said a now totally irritated Hussein. “Why don’t you turn those [documents] over to the authorities and let them actually do the work?”
“They already have them,” the woman answered.
“And they’re not going to do anything,” said Hussein.
“Obama would not let it proceed. He would not let it go forward,” she said.
“Thank you very much,” Hussein said, ending the interchange without ever answering the question of whether CAIR supports or condemns Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hamas is listed by the U.S. State Department as a designated foreign terrorist organization, and the Muslim Brotherhood has been banned by at least eight countries as a terrorist organization, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt.
Robert Spencer also reports that CAIR official refuse to denounce Hamas:
This egregious USA Today article is full of the usual nonsense: it’s “anti-Muslim” to oppose jihad terror, Hamas-linked CAIR is presented as if it were the civil rights organization it claims to be, without any indication of the fact that CAIR officials have refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
An unsavory Hamas-linked group and a hard-Left smear group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, should not be allowed to control who speaks about security issues and who doesn’t, much less to control the public discourse to the extent that only its point of view is represented in a major newspaper. But that is the world we live in today.
I found this in Ilana Freedman's extensive research on the Hamas, CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood nexus:
Moreover, Ellison has himself been linked to the Muslim American Society (MAS), a Virginia-based non-profit 501(C)(3) organization, founded in 1993 to act as the “overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.” (On its website, MAS describes itself simply as “a dynamic charitable, religious, social, cultural, and educational, organization” with “more than 50 chapters across the United States.”
MAS embraces the orthodox Islamic teachings of Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, which its members consider “the closest reflection of how Islam should be in this life,” and its officers, past and present, are activists in Islamic and Hamas-linked organizations including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim Student Association (MSA), and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). In 2014, MAS was among those listed as terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates.
In 2008, MAS paid $13,500 to cover the cost of Ellison’s hajj to Mecca. But Keith Ellison is just one of a growing legion of Muslim activists who have risen to prominence in the senior ranks of politics. The imperative for Muslims to insert themselves into the very fabric of American society is stated clearly on page 4 of the ‘Memorandum’:
“Enablement of Islam in North America, meaning: establishing an effective and a stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which adopts Muslims’ causes domestically and globally, and which works to expand the observant Muslim base, aims at unifying and directing Muslims’ efforts, presents Islam as a civilization alternative, and supports the global Islamic State wherever it is.”
In all things, Hamas in the U.S. is an arm of the Ikhwan, as stated in Article Two of its Covenant, and supports this relationship in all of its facets:
“The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization, which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is characterized by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and judgment, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult, and conversion to Islam.”
Although CAIR promotes itself as a civil rights champion for American Muslims, its origins in the Muslim Brotherhood are well documented. In 2008, during the Holy Land Foundation retrial, CAIR was identified as “a front group for Hamas” in the testimony of an FBI special agent, and named an unindicted co-conspirator, along with two of its officers. Two years later, a federal judge ruled that there was “ample evidence” to prove that CAIR was a part of “a conspiracy to support Hamas.”
Note that Taneeza Islam worked for ISNA prior to working for CAIR-MN and that the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls is owned by NAIT.
I would think Bishop Zellmer would find it troubling to be in a partnership that is about fighting anti-Semitism with a person who has such close ties to Hamas whose covenant includes the "science of the occult" and whose mission is to destroy Jews. He needs to confront Taneeza Islam in regard to those facts, otherwise he is an accomplice in the Muslim Brotherhood Jihad. Freedman's introduction helps us understand what Taneeza Islam is really doing in South Dakota:
Those who challenge the myth that Hamas does not exist in America are mocked and labeled as “Islamophobes” by both Muslim society and the politically correct. For the PC population, it is easier and more comfortable to reject both empirical evidence and judicial findings, and choose to believe that they are safe in a country where, they have convinced themselves, terrorism is only an occasional aberration and Islamic subversion doesn’t exist.
As noted above, Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) based in Gaza, but operates in the West generally and the United States (U.S.) specifically under the secret cloak provided by a host of Brotherhood organizations. The most prominent of these is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which purports to be a community service organization, but in fact serves as the public face of the underground Hamas in America.
Now we know why Taneeza refused to denounce the Muslim Brotherhood and its support of Hamas. What we should find out from Zellmer is if he still is comfortable having Interfaith Dialogue with Taneeza Islam, if the goal is to fight anti-Semitism.
Israel should be a county in Nevada or Utah. There is an entire body of thought that you earth haters wanted Trump because he will hasten the End Days. Do you have enough ammunition, Sib?
Posted by: larry kurtz | January 15, 2018 at 12:43 PM