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Argus Leader busted for putting out fake news on South Dakota's Refugee Resettlement issue

From Leo Hohmann:

After myself and two colleagues testified last Wednesday before the SD Senate Committee on State Affairs in which we pointed out nothing but facts about the dark side of refugee resettlements of migrants into the Dakotas, Minnesota, Ohio, and several other states, the largest newspaper in South Dakota, the Argus Leader, put out a very fair story that laid out the testimony of both sides, for and against the continuation of these resettlements.

The article actually used a quote from myself as the featured headline. It read, “You don’t want to know the truth!” This was what I said directly to committee chairman Bob Ewing when he told me to wrap up my testimony half-way in.

At least I am told the story was fair. I never got to read it. The story only lasted about 40 minutes online before it was pulled down and rewritten with an all new headline. The reworked version scrubbed all mention of the three of us who testified in favor of Sen. Neal Tapio’s bill — a bill that was designed to rein in the resettlements. It went from giving details of what we said in front of the committee to not even mentioning our names. It’s like it never happened. Down the memory hole. Only the positive aspects of the refugee program were included in the rewrite.

Did the reporter get back to the newsroom and write up an honest report of what happened, only to post it prematurely before her editor got hold of it? Or did the editor post it, only to get a phone call from some powerful state legislator? I don’t know, but something happened to change a well-reported story into an incomplete and deceptive one.

The new headline was the much less attention-grabbing: “Citing concerns of discrimination, S.D. panel shelves refugee resettlement ban”

But in the editor’s rushed and sloppy attempt to revise away the original reporting, he forgot to change the original headline’s url, which you can still see below:

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/21/supporter-s-d-bill-ban-refugee-resettlement-you-dont-want-hear-truth/358003002/

Did somebody place a call to the Argus Leader? If so, I can hear the conversation now…

“What in the hell are you guys doing publishing a story that makes those guys look like they knew what they were talking about?!!”

I can honestly say that those of us who testified for the bill, myself, economist James Simpson and former Homeland Security officer Philip Haney, definitely did know what we were talking about, and South Dakota cannot say it wasn’t warned.

The Argus Leader isn’t the only paper providing cover for the refugee program in South Dakota. When a Somali refugee was convicted of attempted rape of a mentally-disabled woman at a group home in Aberdeen in January 2017, the newspaper in that town, the News American, ignored the story. I reported it for WND.com after calling the local newspaper editor, J.J. Perry, and asking him why he felt the attempted rape of a disabled woman in his city wasn’t worth reporting. He was shamed into running the story but buried it on an interior page and left out key details, like the fact that the convicted sex offender was a Somali refugee.

The Minnesota media also routinely covers up Somali crimes in cooperation with the local police departments. The most recent example was the case involving Somali refugee Mahad Abdiaziz Adbiraham, who stabbed two men at the Mall of America. The cops and media said it was a failed robbery attempt, but Adbiraham spoke up publicly at trial and admitted he carried out the attack for Allah.

Recent audit of the Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota's handling of the Refugee Resettlement program points to "Significant Deficiency in Internal Control over Compliance"

I noted yesterday that the Governor's office, Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota, SD Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the South Dakota and Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce testified against Senator Tapio's SB200 regarding the Refugee Resettlement program. Clearly we had special intersts who benefit from the program bringing to the table financial conflicts of interests. One of the proponents of SB200 was Leo Hohmann who wrote this:

My task Wednesday was to testify before the South Dakota Senate’s Committee on State Affairs in support of a bill introduced by Sen. Neal Tapio that would place a moratorium on refugees entering that state from any country that has been placed on a federal travel ban.

Any time a state pushes back against refugee resettlement it is a big deal, so I dropped everything and flew to South Dakota. This federal program has evolved over the decades from a legitimate humanitarian effort into a fraudulent operation whereby agencies like Lutheran Social Services serve as headhunters for industries looking for cheap Third World labor. The cost for U.S. communities has been devastating in terms of crime, terrorism and welfare abuse but the establishment of both parties will tell any lie necessary to keep the cheap labor flowing.

I saw them in action in South Dakota Wednesday and it left me with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Here is more on the fraudulent concern:

The Daily Caller uncovered evidence that refugee resettlement programs may be allowing public funds to be pocketed by charities. Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Phillip Parrish says there is little oversight on the refugee resettlement.

Refugee resettlement is setup so that funds are given directly to contractors depending on how many refugees they bring into the country (per head). There are nine primary resettlement contractors, known as VOLAGS who work with over 350 subcontractors known as affiliates. The way these organizations receive funding is through providing matching funds to the money the Refugee Resettlement Office, part of the office of Health and Human Services, is providing them. The VOLAGs must provide $1 for every $2 received for a refugee, receiving up to $2,200. So that would bring the amount donated by the VOLAG to $1,100, with some of this coming in the form of donated furniture, clothes, food and other goods, or volunteer time at a specified hourly rate, (at least a quarter must be cash donation though). The idea is that the vast majority of the money will be used on the refugee.

There appears to be no local oversight and no interest in oversight,” Parrish explained, “The contracted Volunteer Agencies (VOLAGs), which in reality are very well paid subcontractors are pocketing a large portion of the money. Many of the subcontractors only exist on paper and serve to launder money to other organizations. Some of these shell companies are actually funneling money to extremist organizations.  This is based on my direct experience with law enforcement investigations.”

Here is where the fraud comes in. Many of the VOLAGs use unpaid volunteers to help refugees in various ways, including accompanying them to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get a state id, job hunting, filling out applications, and searching for childcare. Many of these services that the volunteers are providing for free, however, are what the VOLAGs are supposed to be spending the per head funding they are receiving on.  

Furthermore, much of the money that is being raised is coming from those who are volunteering. Being that the volunteers also pay for all their own expenses during their time with refugees it is curious where these funds are going.

I will work with Legislators to prohibit Minnesota agencies and programs from coming into contractual agreement with any resettlement persons or groups without legislative action and local consent,” Parish said, “I will end our participation in the Refugee Resettlement Program.”

Here is Finding 2017-004 from page 48 of a November 6, 2017 audit of Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota, Inc.:

Passed Through Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

CFDA 19.510, SPRMCO16CA1002, 10/1/2015 – 9/30/2016

U.S. Refugee Admissions Program

Cash Management and Reporting

Significant Deficiency in Internal Control over Compliance

Effect: Inadequate documentation of controls over this area of compliance could result in a reasonable possibility that the Organization would not detect errors in the normal course of performing duties and correct them in a timely manner.

This is a similar kind of deficiency found in an audit of Gear Up that was not followed up on soon enough by officials of South Dakota's government. Seems to me it is now time for an Legislative Audit of Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota and immediate actions is needed in order to shed some light on what is going on with LSS of South Dakota in regard to federal and state grants. South Dakota does have a very sad history regarding its handling of federal grants.

Could Lutherans, with the support of the Governor and the Chamber of Commerce, be bringing Christian killers into South Dakota?

[Clarification: Just like not all Muslims support the Muslim Brotherhood's Jihad, not all Lutherans support refugee resettlement.]

In a previous post I noted how Christians are being chased out of Untied Nation's refugee camps by Islamic Jihadis, some of who may be the so--called refugees that Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota are bringing into South Dakota. Here is more on the anti-Christian worldview of Islamic Jihadis from Somalia:

Suspected members of Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab shot three Christians to death in northeastern Kenya at 1 a.m. on Friday (Feb. 16), sources said.Targeting Kenyans who came from other areas to work in predominantly Somali Wajir, some 100 miles from the Somali border, the suspected terrorists from the Somali rebel group entered the sleeping quarters of personnel at Qarsa Primary School and killed two Christian teachers and the wife of one of them, sources told Morning Star News.

After killing Seth Oluoch Odada, his wife Caroline and teacher Kevin Shari, one of the assailants said in the Somali language, “These infidels [non-Muslims] should be wiped out,” a teacher who survived the attack told a worker at Wajir Referral Hospital, the worker told Morning Star News.

The pastor of an area church, undisclosed for security reasons, told Morning Star News that Odada and his wife attended his church.

“We are very concerned about this selective kind of attack on non-locals who are also Christians in this region,” the pastor said. “Our other church members are not safe. Many of the church members, including teachers, have started fleeing the area to their home villages, and some did not attend the church for the Sunday service.”

[And...]

Islamic jihadis have already wiped out Christians to a great degree in the Middle East, and the aim is to do the same in Africa.

With the open borders policies implemented by irresponsible policymakers, the jihad has not remained in those locations, but has expanded into the Western Hemisphere.

In South Dakota those irresponsible policy makers include those who testified against SB200:

Matt Konenkamp, Governor's Office (Handout(s): #2)

John Cunningham, self, Sioux Falls

Brett Koenecke, SD Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Handout(s): #3)

Malcom Chapman, Lutheran Social Services

Betty Oldenkamp, Lutheran Social Services

Taneeza Islam, SD Voices for Concerned Justice (Handout(s): #4) [who refused to denounce Hamas]

Debra Owen, Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce

Hattie Seten, self, Sioux Falls

David Owen, SD Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Sister Kathleen Bierne, Presentation Sisters

Missy Slaathaug, self, Pierre

CAIR continues to use anti-bullying curriculum to violate First Amendment's Establishment Clause in San Diego public schools

Here is the latest on CAIR's attempt to use AMerica's public schools to promote Islam:

San Diego's school board continues to work with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and enact its recommended anti-bullying curriculum despite a July vote withdrawing from a partnership with the Islamist group.

A motion for a preliminary injunction filed in federal court Tuesday seeks to put an end to that ongoing work.

The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) sued the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) last May on behalf of several San Diego parents, arguing that CAIR – as a religious organization – cannot steer public school curriculum and programming without violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause separating religion and state, not to mention California state law.

[And...]

CAIR Education Committee leader Linda Williams told Marten in a July 28 email that the action steps enacted at the April 4 meeting were "still in effect."

Two weeks later, Sharp asked Williams to send him the "Text Kits and Resources to Address Islamophobia" that the committee put together. It included a list of books Allali had recommended in the spring. Williams called it the "very beginnings of what could grow into a robust 'Toolkit' for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators."

"We are delighted that the Curriculum departments will be reviewing these resources for potential use in our District!" Williams wrote. "We are glad to support the District's efforts in this way, and we look forward to further connections!"

Allali's book list included:

· Rashad's Ramadan and Eid Al Fitr, which includes a chapter called "Thinking About Allah";

· Does my Head Look Big in This?, which tells the story of a Muslim teenager who decides to wear a headscarf;

· Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors, about Ramadan.

CAIR's lobbying for a program targeting "Islamophobia" and the bullying of Muslims students dates back at least to 2011, emails show.

[And...]

School districts should be cautious when choosing partners like CAIR, American Islamic Forum for Democracy founder Zuhdi Jasser told the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Jasser argues that groups like CAIR refuse to take "ownership of the fact that the Islamist ideology from which they derive their oxygen and livelihood is the primary problem."

"There is absolutely no honesty regarding how these groups that claim to be about preserving the Constitution and Muslim rights actually put out information and reports, and fundraising by demonizing the very country, the very leaders and that demonization plays a very large role in the radicalization process," Jasser said.

Leader of Church of England out of step with the British people, as he promotes Islamic Jihad and the destruction of Christianity

This sounds a lot like the testimony against SB200 last week in Pierre:

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby made his intervention in the Mail on Sunday, which like Welby backed the Remain campaign during the EU referendum.

“Brexit has divided the country and we now need a new narrative,” he asserted, insisting that “We must heal the divisions caused by the vote” and “accept the dissenting voice” — an oblique reference to people like himself.

Like most Remainers, Welby failed to consider that the country must have been divided before the vote, considering enough people were unhappy with the status quo for it to be overturned at the ballot box.

Being satisfied with the existing situation themselves, Welby and his fellow-travellers simply failed to notice the discontent — only discovering the divide when the referendum put them on the losing side of it.

The Anglican primate made it clear that his “new narrative” did not include a turn away from the unpopular policies of mass migration and state-sponsored multiculturalism, which are and have done much to undermine social cohesion and weaken Christianity in the United Kingdom.

He lectured readers on the importance of “Welcoming strangers to our country”, and told them “We must be generous and allow ourselves to change with the newcomers and create a deeper, richer way of life.”

For his own part, Archbishop Welby has been enthusiastic about adapting his church to suit migrants, creating a new bishop focused on ethnic minorities in the belief that the Church of England is too English.

“We must be a warm, welcoming nation. We must never crush the new diversity and freedoms,” Welby warned.

Welby said that “the most important building blocks of our nation have been undermined” in recent decades — but rather than discuss the degradation of public morals, national identity, and the traditional family, he named those building blocks as “housing that centres on people”, “medical care free at the point of delivery”, and “generous” state benefits, among other social democratic policy matters.

Ordinary Christians do not appear to share the Archbishop’s focus on government welfare and ever-greater “diversity”, with University of Bristol research indicating that some 87.6 percent of Anglicans want to see immigration reduced.

Far from reconsidering their position in light of these findings, however, church elites said they simply demonstrate that they “still have a long way to go in order to enable, to help, to educate congregations to be able to express a fuller welcome to those who both enter our churches and come to our country.”

And Welby knows that his position will destroy the British rule of law and Christianity:

Sharia law should never become part of the British legal system, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.

Justin Welby said the Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws, which have developed over 500 years on the principles of a different culture.

He added that high levels of immigration from Muslim countries can ‘have an impact on the accepted pattern for choosing a partner, on assumed ages of maturity and sexual activity, and especially on issues of polygamy’.

The Bible does talk about welcoming the stranger, but I do not believe it means welcoming God's enemies: James 4:4. "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." Islamic Jihad will "crush the new diversity and freedoms" that Welby so cherishes.

UPDATE: Note that the Muslim Brotherhood considers us their enemy.

Students protesting guns show that the biggest problem in America is public education

Interesting that 17 students are killed in a gun ban zone and they want to turn this entire nation into a gun free zone. And they do so by denying the truth, which is that the FBI ignored warnings about the shooter:

President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday night that the FBI was too caught up in the Russia probe to see the signals leading to Wednesday's shooting massacre at a south Florida high school.

The next morning, student survivors from the school shared their disappointment with the president's tweet — and voiced their displeasure much in the same way Trump often does: Via Twitter.

Trump referred to the FBI's admission earlier this week that it failed to investigate a Jan. 5 tip that warned that Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old man who is accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., posed a deadly threat. 

"Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable," the president tweeted late Saturday night. "They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – there is no collusion."

Yet in response on Sunday morning, students from the south Florida high school blasted Trump's message. Many of the survivors — who in the days following the massacre have voiced strong opinions in favor of gun control — were upset over how the president appeared to link the FBI's failure to stop Cruz to his own troubles stemming from the Russia investigation.

This is how putting our self defense solely in the hands of the government works:

The police officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing to enter the building as a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people.

Sheriff Scott Israel said Deputy Scot Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.” Video footage showed Peterson did none of that, Israel said.

The sheriff’s office also said Thursday that two deputies were put under investigation for how they handled potential warnings about Cruz, including one from November in which a caller said Nikolas Cruz “could be a school shooter in the making.”

Peterson, 54, came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Cruz entered a school building with an AR-15 rifle and killed 14 students and three educators on Valentine’s Day. Cruz later confessed, police said.

The sheriff said video shows Peterson was outside the building for “upwards of four minutes” while students were gunned down inside.

“What I saw was a deputy arrive … take up a position and he never went in,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “There are no words. I mean these families lost their children. We lost coaches,” Israel said.

Peterson resigned, and subsequently retired, at 12:37 p.m. Thursday after he was suspended without pay earlier in the day, Israel said. An investigation into what happened will continue.

Instead of teaching students about the importance of the United States Constitution, which includes the Second Amendment, the public schools are indoctrinating students with anti-America propaganda that has now invoked them to protest against the Constitution and asking the government to turn the entire nation into a pubic school where citizens are not allowed to defend themselves and instead are to depend on governmental officials to save us from the evil inculcated in a God free zone. The Florida shooting is proof that the students' idea does not work.

And the media is promoting the idea that these kids know more than their elders. This demonstrates the lack of respect too many students have in regard to authority. Instead they want to be the authority, but the result will be them having less control over their lives, if they are allowed to have their way with the issue of gun control.

Teachers and journalists have been turned into useful tools by those who want more control over the citizens of this country. On at the top of that totalitarian agenda is to take guns away from us. Time for Americans to resist having this entire country turned into a public school, and now take action to reform our public schools which have proven to be dangerous and dysfunctional, as they have been turned into centers of entertainment. Playing out violent video games seems to not be much fun.

Quote of the day: "The worst terrorists in the USA are white male Christians"

"The worst terrorists in the USA are white male Christians" is a racist quote from a comment left on Cory Heidelberger's post regarding SB200, a bill to prohibit certain actions by the state regarding refugee resettlement. I am awaiting the minutes from the hearing before I provide my entire analysis. In the meantime, I want to bring forward this fact:

The United States has accepted 10,801 Syrian refugees, of whom 56 are Christian. Not 56 percent; 56 total, out of 10,801. That is to say, one half of one percent. The BBC says that ten percent of all Syrians are Christian, which would mean 2.2 million Christians. It is quite obvious, and President Obama and Secretary Kerry have acknowledged it, that Middle Eastern Christians are an especially persecuted group.

So how is it that one half of one percent of the Syrian refugees we’ve admitted are Christian, or 56, instead of about 1,000 out of 10,801--or far more, given that they certainly meet the legal definition? The definition: someone who "is located outside of the United States; Is of special humanitarian concern to the United States; Demonstrates that they were persecuted or fear persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group." Somewhere between a half million and a million Syrian Christians have fled Syria, and the United States has accepted 56. Why?

“This is de facto discrimination and a gross injustice,” Nina Shea, who is director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, told Fox News. Fox notes another theory: that the United States takes refugee referrals from the UN refugee camps in Jordan and there are no Christians there. Here’s the Fox excerpt:

Experts say another reason for the lack of Christians in the make-up of the refugees is the make-up of the camps. Christians in the main United Nations refugee camp in Jordan are subject to persecution, they say, and so flee the camps, meaning they are not included in the refugees referred to the U.S. by the U.N.

“The Christians don’t reside in those camps because it is too dangerous,” Shea said. “They are preyed upon by other residents from the Sunni community and there is infiltration by ISIS and criminal gangs.”

“They are raped, abducted into slavery and they are abducted for ransom. It is extremely dangerous, there is not a single Christian in the Jordanian camps for Syrian refugees,” Shea said.

So instead of bringing the refugees who are being raped and abducted into slavery, the Lutherans potentially could be bringing into South Dakota those Jihadis who are persecuting Christians, including the white males. This is what they called during yesterday's committee hearing on SB200, "Welcoming the stranger." I was there in person and will provide more coverage once I get the official list on those who testified against SB200, which included the Governor's office and his band of crony capitalists from the Chamber of Commerce. And sadly, we have Cory's gang of white hating, male bashing, anti-Christian bigots celebrating the defeat of SB200. 

UPDATE: here is Cory's response to the racist comment:

Roger, Debbo, your comments seem the only way that a sensible Republican might have a chance of explaining to Al just how vile his comment in committee today was.

But enough explaining. It’s time to vote this vile racism out of our Senate.

Perhaps Cory should first stop the promotion of racism on his web site, if he is truly against it. He should also understand that Islamic Jihad is not about race, and is not about Muslims...it is about the Muslim Brotherhood.

Pat Powers and Cory Heidelberger join forces to defend Dan Lederman who is under attack by South Dakota conservatives

Pat Powers responds to conservatives who are now throwing rocks at Dan Lederman with this:

Let me start that conversation by noting that they’re still there. Conservative Republicans have long assumed the mantle of Republican leadership in this state. It’s been reflected in the party’s platform growing ever more conservative over the years.  In fact, some use the term ‘conservative’ interchangeably with ‘Republican.’

When party leadership is as conservative as it is up and down the board; strongly pro-life, pro-gun, etcetera and so on, I’d argue that the divisions in the GOP are less a matter of philosophical divisions, and more a matter that those who are not in charge are busy trying to figure out how they can become the people in charge.

It’s not a matter of philosophy as much as it is of coalitions, and if you can break them by throwing enough rocks.

I would agree that the pro-life and pro-gun issues has bad strong support by most, but not all Republicans in leadership. With Governor Daugaard vetoing right carry, Pat's argument starts to lose weight. But what really brings down his argument is the two major tax increases in the areas of transportation and education which are blatant examples of tax and spend liberalism, as the SDGOP Establishment joined forces with the Democratic Establishment. The SDGOP's economic development thru crony capitalism and big government has now bubbled up scandals such as EB-5. There has been SDGOP leadership against holding accountable those Republicans who were responsible for oversight in regard to the Gear-up scandal. It is the liberal factionof ther SDDGOP that has sacrificed conservative principles in order to protect their liberal coalition.

And I have more proof. Extreme leftist Cory Heidelberger is stepping up to defend Dan Lederman:

In a letter dated February 2 and sent to Lederman’s bail bonds business address in Newton, Iowa, 51 disgruntled South Dakota Republicans tell Lederman that his Iowa voting registration, which he maintained until last October, nullifies his status as South Dakota Republican Party chair. They actually call Lederman’s sham-chair activities “illegal” and demand he cease representing himself as a party official.

What Republicans would say such things about their party leader? Here are the names that stick out to this liberal observer:

• Rep. Blaine B. Campbell (R-35/Rapid City), who is not term-limited from his House seat.
• Mike Mueller, husband of Rep. Julie Frye-Mueller (R-30/Rapid City) and president of Citizens for Liberty, who irked the Lederman machine with their 2017 legislator scorecard.
• Florence Thompson, a Black Hills extremist who refers to transgender South Dakotans as “(unmentionable) people“.
• Jack Ray Henry Heyd, who intended to circulate a potty-panic initiative petition last year but was waved off by higher powers in the Sharia-for-Jesus movement.
• Tara Volesky, Mitchell Republican and frequent blogospheric pot-stirrer.
• Michael Boyle, whom I’ll speculate is the same Baptist Bircher Michael Boyle who’s running for District 19 House (and who just guaranteed the GOP will find primary challengers for him).
• Lora Hubbel, who is running a fringe campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor.

The letter gives no sign that the signers have any replacement chair in mind, which one would think would be a vital part of any plan to oust the sitting chair.

When you have liberal observer like Cory Heidelberger defend you from the actions of conservatives, then you should know that you are a liberal. I think Cory's example with regard to the 2017 legislator scoreboard completely destroys Pat Power's argument that the current actions is not about conservative principles. Exposing the voting records of incumbent liberal Republicans in primaries is called "negative campaigning" by the SDGOP Establishment machine and the accomplices in the South Dakota media.

This is yet another example of how the problems created by the liberal big government agenda is driven both parties, with both Republican and Democratic Establishment bloggers defending the current dysfunctional system of legalized corruption. Republicans mislead their constituents with the premise that they stand for limited government, and the Democrats mislead their constitutions with the premise that big government is for the little guy. It is only with the truth that people with come to realize that both sides are pulling the divide and conquer agenda by getting us to think there really is a difference worth fighting for between the two political parties. It is only after the truth becomes well known that we can them go forward with picking the right people to lead our government. Even though they may have different agendas, both Cory and Pat are wrong to attack those who are not happy with the SDGOP Establishment's control over what goes on in Pierre. And Cory proves that the Democrats are no better. All they want is a bigger piece of the taxpayers' pie.

Fake News inflates Islamophobia with Muslim created hoaxes promoted by the non-profit "South Asian Americans Leading Together"

You can file this under the Jihadi tactics of deception, lying  and Taqiyya:

Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim college student, claimed that Trump supporters had tried to tear off her hijab on the New York City subway and shouted, "Look it's a f______ terrorist" and "Go back to your country".

“The president-elect just promotes this stuff and is very anti-Muslim, very Islamophobic, and he’s just condoning it,” she complained.

It was all a lie.

Yasmin was charged with filing a false police report on December 2016. On September 2017, she pleaded guilty to falsely reporting an incident and disorderly conduct. 

An Islamophobia hoax doesn’t get any more discredited than the Seweid case. But Islamophobia hoaxes never die. They’re rolled into hate crime statistics and reports even when they are completely false.

"Reported anti-Muslim hate incidents, rhetoric rose in year after election, report finds," NBC News claims. Like The Nation, Think Progress and a variety of other sites, it's touting a report by South Asian Americans Leading Together or SAALT.

The SAALT report, “Communities on Fire,” fits into an annual media tradition. Every year, fake statistics are used to inflate the Islamophobia threat. And the media reports every year that Islamophobia is getting worse. The statistical gimmicks of Islamophobia inflation vary from the clever to the terrible.

[And...]

These weren’t just hoaxes. They were hoaxes from over a year ago. And SAALT still included them.

"An anti-Muslim message was spray painted on a residence hall on the Beloit College campus," the report claims.

The student confessed to having vandalized his own door with anti-Muslim graffiti.  He was arrested and charged with criminal damage.

“Two men confronted a San Diego State University student wearing hijab in a parking structure, made comments about President-elect Donald Trump and the Muslim community, and then took her purse and backpack. The men also took the student’s car keys and ran off,” the SAALT report claims.

The car turned out not to be stolen. No evidence of the attack was found and the student refused to cooperate with police.

Incidents like these, which were reported after Trump’s victory, play a crucial role in SAALT’s efforts to connect the supposed rise in Islamophobic attacks to him. The SAALT report mentions Trump nearly 200 times. It claims that, “One in five perpetrators of hate violence incidents referenced President Trump, a Trump policy, or a Trump campaign slogan.” But quite a few of those Trump “incidents” were hoaxes.

[And...]

The SAALT report tries to attribute violent attacks on Muslims to “white supremacists”, but many of its more violent incidents are actually the work of African-American and Latino attackers. The Victoria mosque fire was set by a mentally unstable Latino man. The Islamic Center of Eastside fire was set by a schizophrenic African-American homeless man who may have previously tried to pray in the mosque and had smashed a window at NikeTown. Not exactly your typical Trump supporter.

A number of the acts in the SAALT report were actually committed by mentally unstable homeless people with a violent history. But SAALT has its own curious definition of white supremacist. 

According to the report, Act for America 9/11 commemoration illustrated a growth in white supremacist Islamophobia. But Act for America was founded by Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Arab immigrant. [See my post on Taneeza Islam attacking a German immigrant.]

The SAALT report not only includes hoaxes, but it attacks civil rights groups and defends hate groups.

[And...]

The multiple hoaxes that never happened and other incidents that were not hate crimes ought to be enough to raise serious questions about the credibility of the SAALT report. Unfortunately the media unthinkingly passes along Islamophobia inflation reports without ever fact checking them.The SAALT report and the media stories about it exist to push the narrative is that President Trump is causing anti-Muslim violence. And the narrative is too good to bother checking the facts.

And that not only destroys the media’s own credibility, but hurts the people it claims to be trying to protect.

Argus Leader used immigration attorney Taneeza Islam to attack a German immigrant, exposing her Muslim Supremacy

As I already reported, Robert Spencer went after the Argus Leader reporter for biased coverage on the immigration issue. Here is how the Argus Leader report started:

Sioux Falls mayoral candidate is taking some heat for posts on his personal social media profile that equal rights advocates say are anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim.

Mike Gunn, a retired business owner and a dark horse in the 2018 Sioux Falls mayoral race, drew attention from the nonprofit South Dakota Voices for Justice for a series of Facebook posts expressing support for tighter immigration laws and alarmism over the country’s increasing Muslim population.

“It should alarm all citizens of Sioux Falls to see that kind of propaganda being released or reposted by someone who wants to be the top-elected official for the city,” said Taneeza Islam, a Sioux Falls immigration lawyer and executive director of South Dakota Voices for Justice.

Mike Gunn made this point:

I believe that if I were an American born citizen, the initial outcome on the accusation would hit a bit harder. But one key factor that left a whole in Tanzeea's remarks was that I was in fact a 1st generation Legal immigrant. I was vetted in "1970" migrated from Germany with my Mother and adoptive Father in the military at that time. It is true that I am against anyone who violates my as well as any other Citizens rights as well as the Constitution as it is written. But an even deeper expectation is to follow Our Laws as I did. I believe that I have just as much right possibly a bit more "experiencing" the vetting process by law to demand others do the same. No exception. During all this accusation process by Taneeza, everyone should consider another important fact ( I was vetted again in "2013").

If you are white, you have to follow immigration laws. But according to an Islamist immigration attorney, Muslim have religious rights and are abused by American immigration rules and regulations, and those American immigrants who want them strengthened for their own protection. Certainly does not seem like the "executive director of South Dakota Voices for Justice" is much into "equal justice". Instead she is an Islamist promoting Muslim Supremacy:

With Islamist terror attacks becoming commonplace in Europe and authorities across the continent doing very little to prevent them, it’s clear that the Trump administration’s tough approach to handling the threat of Islamist terror attacks is necessary.

It’s time Americans call these terror attacks what they really are — actions in support of an ideology that holds Islam and sharia above all else. In other words Muslim supremacy.

The mainstream media is currently on a mission to paint anyone on the right as a white supremacist. Most recently, popular comedian Chelsea Handler has even gone so far as to label Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, and actress Stacey Dash as “black white supremacists.”

The left and media are celebrating Handler’s disrespectful and downright bizarre label she cast on people of color who have nothing do with white supremacy at all, yet myself and other conservative writers and activists catch heat when we are critical of Islamist culture. 

Why is it acceptable to throw the “white supremacist” label around but it is unacceptable to discuss issues related to Muslim supremacy and Islamist ideologies?

A few days ago, disturbing evidence of Muslim supremacy in the U.S. came out of the Alton Nolen trial in Oklahoma. Nolen is facing the death penalty for the 2014 beheading of his female co-worker at Vaughan Foods, after an argument over Nolen’s hatred of white people turned deadly.

Recent reports note that Nolen felt “oppressed” as a Muslim, and when police asked if he regretted what he had done, he said, “I don’t feel regret, because you know what I’ve done. That’s probably going to make Vaughan Foods a better place to work for a Muslim.”

The 54-year-old victim, Colleen Hufford, was silenced forever; not only did she lose her life, but her First Amendment right was stolen from her by a Muslim supremacist.

Muslim supremacy is not acceptable, and must be held to the same standard as white supremacy, black supremacy and any other supremacy.

[And, most importantly:]

It’s important not to confuse calling out the existence of Muslim supremacy with putting down Muslims. There are millions of Muslims around the globe that do not subscribe to Islamist ideologies.

That does not diminish the threat Muslim supremacy and Islamist ideologies pose, especially in the U.K. and across Europe; both have seen  massive influx of Islamic immigration.

Mike Gunn's home country of Germany certainly has been a target for Islamic Jihad. I suppose Gunn, unlike the lady in Oklahoma, should be grateful that he got to keep his head after voicing his concerns. But South Dakota should not allow an Islamist, along with South Dakota's media and so-called social justice warriors, to promote Muslim Supremacy that will in the long run put "Islam and sharia above all else"  to go unchallenged. It is not too soon for us to speak up and expose the real agenda of Taneeza Islam, which is importing CAIR-MN's jihad to South Dakota. Whenever you get the chance, ask her to denounce the anti-Semitic Hamas. Follow up with, isn't CAIR really the Hamas of America? Just make sure you have the research with you, and know what you are talking about. And don't let the conversation switch from Islamic Jihad to what is called terrorism, in all its forms.