The Rapid City Journal presented this argument from Senator Tapio:
A prospective candidate in South Dakota's U.S. House race is questioning the application of religious freedom to Muslims.
The freedom of religion has been constitutionally guaranteed to Americans for 227 years by the portion of the First Amendment that says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
But in a Friday press release, state Sen. Neal Tapio, a Republican from Watertown who has said he plans to enter the U.S. House race, questioned whether the First Amendment applies to the religion of Islam as practiced by adherents known as Muslims.
"Does our Constitution offer protections and rights to a person who believes in the full implementation of Islamic Law, as practiced by 14 Islamic countries and up to 350 [million] self-described Muslims, who believe in the deadly political ideology that believes you should be killed for leaving Islam?" Tapio wrote.
The lengthy press release was issued as part of Tapio's attempt to defend himself against what he described as unfair media coverage and unfair labeling of him as racist, extremist, xenophobic and Islamophobic.
When the Journal interviewed Tapio and asked him several times to say whether he supports religious freedom for American Muslims, he never said "yes" or "no." Instead, he spoke about Islamic radicalism and his desire to facilitate a public discussion about it.
One of the Journal's questions was whether Tapio wants to outlaw Islam.
“I don’t have that answer,” Tapio said. “I am simply asking necessary questions in order to lead a conversation.”
So the media is trying to falsely change Tapio's defense of religious freedom into an attack on the religious freedom on "all Muslims". Perhaps Seth Tupper should be asking Taneeza Islam if she agrees with Muslim refugees killing Muslims who convert to Christianity:
An Afghan asylum seeker went on trial in Germany Tuesday accused of stabbing to death a compatriot mother-of-four because he was furious she had converted to Christianity. Prosecutors charge that the 30-year-old, who was not named by authorities, murdered the woman in front of two of her children because she had turned her back on the Islamic faith.
The Muslim man allegedly used a 20-centimetre (eight-inch) bladed knife to slash and stab the Afghan woman 16 times outside a supermarket in the southern city of Prien on Chiemsee lake on April 29 last year.
The case came at a time when the German public is torn over a mass influx of more than one million refugees and migrants since 2015, many from conflict-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 38-year-old woman had earlier asked the man whether he wanted to convert too, a request that was "irreconcilable with his Muslim faith," prosecutors told the court in the city of Traunstein.
Two of the woman's children, aged five and 11, watched as the man allegedly killed their mother. Her two other children are adults.
Passers-by tried to stop the attacker by hurling a shopping trolley at him.
This is what Taneeza Islam does not want you to know:
This “Afghan asylum seeker” has acted in accord with Islamic teaching. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
Taneeza calls such warnings to be Islamophobic. That is just another word for Fitnah, which is how Islamists describe the actions of President Trump:
North American Islamic scholars have issued a legal ruling or “fatwa” in the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning victory and imminent presidency, instructing the faithful on what to expect and how they should respond to shifting political realities.
Changes are coming, warns the Assembly of Muslim Jurist of America, and Muslims are told to get ready. The fatwa is titled “AMJA Post-Election Statement: Principles and Roadmap.”
While the fatwa received no media attention, this declaration contains the principles to which imams in the nation’s more than 3,100 mosques will be looking for guidance on how to instruct their congregations.
Philip Haney, a retired Homeland Security officer and co-author of the whistleblower book “See Something Say Nothing,” said the document is loaded with coded language that signals a possible uptick in jihadist attacks during Trump’s presidency.
The fatwa starts out by referring to a “political storm” that has “taken over this country.”
The Islamic scholars at AMJA go on to explain that “Muslims of America are neither guests nor strangers” and they will strengthen their bonds with the country’s civil rights organizations and work to defend Muslim rights “whenever needed.”
“However, at the same time, we must always fulfill our obligations completely and be active participants in society working to protect the security and well-being of its inhabitants,” the fatwa states.
And what are their “obligations?”
“Their obligations are set by Shariah law,” Haney said.
The AMJA never had to issue such a declaration under President Obama because he gave the Muslim community everything they wanted, Haney said. Now, they are expecting to meet resistance and they are preparing the troops.
“This whole fatwa is about fitnah,” Haney said.
“Fitnah” is an Arabic word meaning “trial” or “test,” which can take the form of oppression against Muslims in a society dominated by infidels. In the modern sense, “fitnah” equals “Islamophobia.”
“And the whole fitnah they expect to encounter is the new administration of Donald Trump,” Haney said. “That is what this whole fatwa is about, that the American Muslim community is about to encounter an intensification of what they consider Islamophobia.”
The AMJA’s Fatwa Committee is led by its senior member, the Egyptian-born radical Waleed Idris al-Maneese, imam of al-Faroq mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, which has been attended by at least five Somali refugees who ended up being terrorists, as previously reported by WND.
Note that Taneeza worked for CAIR-MN, and she applies the Islamic principle of Fitnah to President Trump with this piece of propaganda:
A South Dakota group has responded to President Trump's tweeting of anti-Muslim videos today.
South Dakota Voices for Peace executive director Taneeza Islam takes the President's tweets personally.
“This is a real threat for me, my family and over 7 million Muslims in the United States, including the millions of others who are not Muslims but are attacked because they don’t ‘look American’,” said Islam, a practicing Muslim.
She says has received threats for the work she does providing accurate information about Islam, Muslims, immigrants and refugees in South Dakota.
“There has never been a genocide in human history that didn’t start with dehumanizing the targeted population," Islam said.
“Trump is fulfilling his campaign promise to ‘ban all Muslims from entering the United States,’ by laying the groundwork with dangerous anti-Muslim propaganda,” said South Dakota Voices for Peace's Samantha Spawn. “By retweeting videos originating from the cult-right in the UK, Trump is working hard to import to America the same hatred that has been condemned across Europe."
Spawn say even South Dakota is seeing some preliminary repercussions in South Dakota but did not elaborate with specifics in their media release.
"It’s our fear that the continued use of this rhetoric will escalate an already tenuous situation into a deadly one," Spawn, the group's communications director, said. "How many more hate crimes do Muslims, immigrants and refugees have to endure before Trump is able to accept responsibility for his reckless and racist agenda?”
The group says the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies five hate groups in South Dakota and one national organization with an active chapter in Rapid City, SD, ACT! for America. They say four of these five hate groups are anti-immigrant and Islamophobic groups, and ACT! is classified as the largest of such groups.
SDVP says since January 2017, they've tracked 24 Islamophobic events that have taken place in South Dakota.
Trump is considered the oppressor, so that means:
The fatwa committee never mentions Trump by name, but it’s clear who they are talking about. They quote the Quran to reiterate that they themselves are the proper authorities to which all American Muslims should look for guidance in the coming days of trial.
“They’re laying the groundwork on the response to this fitnah,” says Haney. And what is the response?
While they don’t come right out and say it, the language of the directive will be understood by Muslims to mean that violent jihad could be within the realm of what is expected of them in the fight against the Trump-led fitnah or “oppression,” Haney said.
The threat is made with the following statement:
“There is no blame upon a country if it does what is needed to protect its interests and security as long as it does not transgress or oppress by denying or violating rights.”
Of course under Islamic law, where Muslims are able to rule, the government tramples all over people’s “rights,” especially those of Christians, Jews and other religious minorities. But in a Western democracy where Muslims are the minority, it helps further the cause of Islam to play the victim and claim to be “oppressed.”
“Osama Bin Laden was always talking about oppression,” Haney said. “These are capital offenses in Islam,” he added, as long as it is non-Muslims who are doing the oppressing. Otherwise it is expected that Muslims should oppress and subjugate non-Muslims where Muslims have the upper hand in a Muslim-majority society.
The fatwa continues by stating that Islam, with respect to its beliefs and legal foundations, is “unalterably fixed. It does not accept any replacement for change.”
That’s a warning to any moderates within the Islamic community, that they have no standing to make any claims on behalf of Islam, Haney said.
“What about all this talk about moderate Muslims? This is AMJA telling you there is no conceivable flexibility in Islam, it’s fixed, it will not change,” he said. “This ruling or fatwa is to accommodate anybody through any time or place, that’s why AMJA exists, to help Muslims in this non-Muslim community navigate the challenges of fitnah under Donald Trump.”
Tapio is considered the Donald Trump of South Dakota by the Jihadis, and cultural Neo-Marxist on the far-left. Sadly we never talk about the religious rights of moderate and/or converted Muslims. The conversation is about "all Muslims", which is an example of how identity politics is causing dysfunction within America's political arena by those who are playing the victimhood card. In this case, Tapio's concern about religious freedom is turned into the false allegation that he is a racist who hates "all Muslims", thereby making him an Islamophobe...or in Islamic speak...Fitnah. Now we know why the Jihad in South Dakota intensified during 2017, and it is continuing to pick up steam as it is gathering "useful tools" from the media, liberal interfaith false Christian activists, leftist Democrats, and also crony capitalist liberal Republicans. The last group will make it most difficult to slow down the Jihad, as that is where the power and money is at. The question I ask, will truth to power prevail on this one?
Then there is this going on in N.J. (which they will probably claim as a fitnah if not allowed in SD):
https://leohohmann.com/2018/01/25/new-jersey-middle-school-instructs-students-islam-is-the-true-faith/
Posted by: JimHoliway | January 25, 2018 at 01:08 PM
Jim - Thanks for the link. That's a great site to visit, it's where I first found out about the Muslim woman who started fires at the Catholic college.
Did you watch the YouTube video of Ami Horowitz - 'On the Street: America or Somalia - you might be surprised.' It's worth the watch. Many Muslim's choose to live by sharia law over the Constitution.
Thankfully many of us have the option to send our kids to private school or home school them.
Posted by: KM | January 25, 2018 at 02:53 PM
Paranoia, the destroyer - the Kinks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WJ6FbcWYRU
Posted by: larry kurtz | January 25, 2018 at 03:39 PM