Cory Heidelberger goes after Senator Tapio for exposing the Republican's crony capitalism:
Fascist demagogues used to blame Jew bankers for corrupting politics. Now they blame 190 Muslim doctors in Sioux Falls:
So for instance the legislators from Sioux Falls, they have a very strong Chamber of Commerce, they give a lot of money to these candidates. They have a Lutheran Social Services headquarter. The head of Lutheran Social Services used to be a cabinet secretary for Mike Rounds or Dennis Daugaard. So you have that group of people that know each other really well, that familiarity.
And then there’s 190 Muslim doctors that work at Avera and Sanford and so they don’t want to stir any waves, and so they put their weight behind it, and so all of a sudden if you’re a legislator from Sioux Falls, it becomes very difficult to vote against the people who are giving you money [Neal Tapio, response to voter question, Aberdeen, SD, 2018.01.30].
Tapio goes on to say that he doesn’t want people to contribute to his campaign until they know what he thinks. Well, there’s what he thinks.
The questioner does follow up and say that those 190 Muslim doctors and the Chamber don’t support terrorism. Tapio responds with some vague, unsubstantiated claim (from scared, behind-the-scenes Trump fans, he avers) that immigrant doctors are afraid of being killed by folks back in their homeland for apostasy.
First, Cory is wrong about Islam's death penalty for apostasy. This is part of Islamic law, and is still part of Islamic life. Here is some insight:
Leaving Islam can be notoriously difficult in many Muslim-majority countries. Certain countries, such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have laws that make apostasy an offense punishable by death. In others where apostasy is not explicitly criminalized, accused individuals can still face charges through religious courts. Prosecution at the hands of the judicial system, however, is relatively rare. The main costs that apostates face come from family members and others in the community. A 2013 PEW study found widespread support for the death penalty for leaving Islam in many countries. In several of them, including Egypt, Jordan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the majority of Muslims held this view. In the Palestinian Territories, 89 percent of those surveyed thought Sharia ought to be the law of the land, and within that number, 66 percent supported the death penalty for apostasy.
The widespread nature of this conviction means that in many cases, it can be a life-threatening proposition to publicly state one’s secularism or atheism. Bangladesh, for example, has seen several cases of secular bloggers being hacked to death with machetes. In Pakistan, a high-profile politician was killed by one of his guards for his opposition to blasphemy laws. Salmaan Taseer, the former governor of Punjab, had opposed the persecution of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam. The politician’s son, Shaan Taseer, who has also spoken out against blasphemy laws, now fears for his life after a recent fatwa issued against him.
Bangladesh is where Cory's Jihadi partner Taneeza Islam's family is from. And that partnership includes the mistreatment of Muslims, such as Shahram Hadian, who chose to leave Islam:
Reem Razek, a translator and writer living in New York City, has had a harrowing experience leaving Islam. She did so in her teens, while she was in Egypt, where she was born. “Most of my friends and family stopped talking to me, some would mock me and basically call me psychotic,” she told me, adding:
My father tried pressuring me into recanting [my] views using any method he felt he could get away with. He tied me up and beat me and cut off my Internet, and when that didn’t work, he used his ties as a physician to get [me] locked in a psychiatric institution where I was given electroshock and told I’d come out of it a believer. I was only released after I pretended to believe in Islam again.
When her family moved to the U.S. temporarily in 2012, Razek applied for asylum. Her writing and activism led to “many threats of rape, torture and murder,” she explained in a statement describing her asylum process. “I was afraid I would be denounced to the police and arrested as an apostate, in which case I would be raped, tortured, and possibly killed in jail.”
Given the challenges associated with leaving the religion, Sarah Haider regrets that people like her do not receive more support from the left, as she detailed in a 2015 address given to the American Humanist Association:
I always expected feeling unwelcome from Muslim audiences, but I did not anticipate an equal amount of hostility from my allies on the left.
For example, when I first published a piece fact-checking Reza Aslan, who is a prominent Muslim scholar, on his dismissal of female genital mutilation as only an African problem, not a Muslim one, I got many responses from people unhappy with what I wrote, almost all of whom questioned my motives rather than addressing my claims. To my surprise, most of my critics were not Muslims. Rather they identified as liberals and sometimes even atheists. Some darkly alluded to my “agenda” and others claimed that as a former Muslim, there was no way I could be trusted with fair criticism. Now remember, I published a fact-check. It seems to me that it would be easy to verify my claims, fact-check the fact-check, so to speak. But instead, Muslims and some people on the left preferred . . . to throw around suspicions about my character and my intentions.
One common method of dismissing her aims, Haider said in the speech, is to assume that she is “pro-war” or that she broadly supports the far-right agenda in some way, though neither is the case. “Sometimes I am called an Uncle Tom or a House Arab. Another term thrown around at ex-Muslims and other brown critics of Islam is ‘native informants.’”
She argued that there was an inconsistency in this: Those who oppose Christian authoritarianism will find that the broad majority of liberals, religious or non-religious, side with them and will offer their support in the fight to push religious morals out of our politics and public life. . . . But when the same scrutiny is applied to Islam, you find that inexplicably some people on the left begin to align instead with the Islamic religious Right. “The biggest help that the general population in North America can do is stop obfuscating the issue,” Omer tells me. “With some notable exceptions, for the most part, we are faced with bigotry from the right and accusations of the same from the left.”
So we do need to provide a safe haven for those Muslim here are being persecuted for leaving Islam. What we need to be on the watch for are those implementing the Muslim Brotherhood's Civilizational Jihad, which we need to distinguish from terrorism. An Islamist can denounce terrorism without denouncing "Jihad". Under Jihad, terrorist acts have to directed by a Caliph. So far the Muslim Brotherhood has not established a Caliph, but ISIS has. That Caliph studied in Muslim Brotherhood Mosques, so the Muslim Brotherhood's indoctrination is still a problem. I have tried to warn Cory about the threat, but he refuses to listen. So he continues to be a threat to Muslims who have rejected Islam. And he already knows where the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce stands on this issue:
South Dakota Republicans need to repudiate the anti-Islam, anti-refugee hysteria being fomented by out-of-state speakers, anonymous local groups, and some of its own legislators, like Senators Neal Tapio and Al Novstrup, not just because it is the right and American thing to do, but also because, from a purely pragmatic, partisan perspective, these often GOP-sponsored hate rallies may drive a wedge between the SDGOP and one of its most important backers, the Chamber of Commerce.
On Wednesday, the Sioux Falls Area of Chamber of Commerce issued a remarkable statement decrying these anti-immigrant programs as bad for business.
And that statement includes this:
Legislation and policies that negatively target specific populations will not help Sioux Falls address our changing workforce needs. They will not help grow the state economy and certainly do not create new opportunities for South Dakota residents. Rather, such policies will make it more difficult for employers to fill open positions and further create negative perceptions of the people and businesses of South Dakota, both nationally and internationally.
And he already knows his Jihadi partner is in bed with the Sioux Falls Chamber and politicians:
Opening speech from the president of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, panel discussion with the Chamber President and the boss at First Premier Bankcard right next to civil rights advocate Taneeza Islam, and a panel discussion led by Jack Marsh with eight Sioux Falls mayoral candidates—that’s a noteworthy array of Sioux Falls business and political figures standing with civil rights campaigners to say diversity and inclusion aren’t just warm fuzzy liberal lullabies but practical values essential to our economic survival.
Then we have the issue of the "190 Muslim doctors that work at Avera and Sanford". One of those Sanford doctors is Dr. Timothy Dillard. Perhaps Cory is not aware of this:
[Taneeza] Islam was named among “Top 17 People to Watch in 2017” by the Argus Leader and recently was awarded Woman of Year in Law and Government by Embe. Islam and her husband, Dr. Tim Dillard, a hospitalist at Sanford USD Medical Center, are parents of two boys, ages 6 and 2.
The Argus Leader has a photo of the married couple protesting President Trump's travel ban back in January 2017.
Perhaps her husband had something to do with her South Dakota Voices for Peace advisory Board including Dr. Dave Kapaska:
Dr. Kapaska has served as Regional President and CEO of Avera McKennan University Health Center since October 2010 – the 16th administrator in the 100-year history of Avera McKennan. His regional span included the 545-bed tertiary hospital in Sioux Falls, 14 community hospitals, more than 70 primary and specialty care clinics, long-term care facilities, as well as fitness and sports centers. Dr. Kapaska also sat on the Avera Health Operations Council. Avera Health includes six regional health centers, 28 community hospitals, more than 200 clinic locations, 40 senior living facilities, as well as two health insurance companies, the country’s most robust telehealth operation and a multi-state home care agency. Avera Health has health care facilities across the five-state region and provides virtual health services in 15 states.
And...
Dr Kapaska also played an integral role in working with Muslim physician leaders to develop the Muslims Community Center in Sioux Falls which has been a very successful program meeting the spiritual and community needs of our Muslim brothers and sisters.
And...
Dr. Kapaska is currently chair of the board for the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. A major focus of his Chamber leadership role was workforce development focused on education and opportunities for diverse and immigrant populations.
And her Advisory Board includes Betty Oldencamp:
Betty Oldenkamp has served as the President and CEO for Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota since March 2006. LSS/SD is a diverse, multi-service agency touching over 50,000 lives each year with a presence in 30 communities. Prior to her service with LSS/SD, Betty served as the Cabinet Secretary for the South Dakota Department of Human Services for five years.
LSS receives federal and and state money, so there is a financial conflict of interest. And since Cory's wife is a Lutheran pastor, he too has a financial conflict of interest. So we have another example of cronyism leading to a system of legalized corruption.
And Taneeza Islam's infilitration thus far not only include the South Dakota's state government and the city of Sioux Falls, but also Aberdeen as her Advisory Board includes Aberdeen Mayor Mike Levsen.
Also on her board is Senator James Abourezk who "was the first Greek Orthodox, first generation Lebanese-American to serve in the US Senate." And:
Since his retirement from the Senate, Abourezk has worked as a lawyer and writer in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He has continued to be active in supporting tribal sovereignty and culture and is instrumental in social justice activities in SD.
The Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of America's federal government also include a tax cut warrior that should drive Cory Heidelberger nuts:
The Freedom Defense Initiative, a new organization I started with author and scholar Robert Spencer, hosted its inaugural event to an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 19. But this event was at CPAC, not of CPAC. Could this be because of the influence of conservative kingmaker and power-broker Grover Norquist, who is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC? The only event concerning the war on America at CPAC was worse than nothing at all: It was an Islamic propaganda (taqiyya) presentation entitled "You've Been Lied To: Why Real Conservatives are Against the War on Terror." Its message was that "real conservatives" don't support the war on terror because it is a creation of the "Israeli lobby."
How did CPAC come to this?
Grover Norquist's ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists have been known for years. He and his Palestinian wife, Samah Alrayyes -- who was director of communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until they married in 2005 -- are very active in "Muslim outreach." Just six weeks after 9/11, The New Republic ran an exposé explaining how Norquist arranged for George W. Bush to meet with fifteen Islamic supremacists at the White House on September 26, 2001 -- to show how Muslims rejected terrorism.
Norquist efforts also predated 9/11:
Bush did this because he trusted Norquist, who vouched for these Muslim leaders. Yet "the record suggests," wrote Foer, "that [Norquist] has spent quite a lot of time promoting people openly sympathetic to Islamist terrorists." And this continued for years. In December 2003, David Horowitz wrote that Norquist,
... has formed alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Equally troubling is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second thoughts on Grover's part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.
Horowitz wrote this in an introduction to a detailed exposé by Frank Gaffney showing how Norquist had given Muslims with jihad terror links access to the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Grover Norquist was on the Islamic payroll before and after the carnage of September 11. Gaffney revealed Norquist's close ties to Abdurahman Alamoudi, who is now serving twenty-three years in prison for financing jihad activity. In 2000, Alamoudi said at a rally, "I have been labeled by the media in New York to be a supporter of Hamas. Anybody support Hamas here? ... Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas. I wished they added that I am also a supporter of Hezb'allah." Alamoudi was at that time head of the now-defunct "moderate" group known as American Muslim Council (AMC), and he was active in other Muslim groups in the U.S. that showed sympathy to or support for jihadists. And Alamoudi, according to Gaffney, gave $50,000 to the lobbying group Janus-Merritt Strategies, which Norquist co-founded.
Alamoudi's money bought influence. Gaffney wrote in 2003: "It seems unlikely that even in Alamoudi's wildest dreams he could have imagined the extent of the access, influence and legitimacy the American Muslim Council and allied Islamist organizations would be able to secure in Republican circles, thanks to the investment they began in 1998 in a relationship with Norquist."
Alamoudi also helped found Norquist's Islamic Institute with a $10,000 loan and a gift of another $10,000. The founding director of the Islamic Institute is Khaled Saffuri, a Palestinian Muslim who had previously been active in Islamic groups in Bosnia, where Islamic jihadists from all over the world gathered "to establish," says Gaffney, "a beachhead on the continent of Europe." Gaffney adds that Saffuri "has acknowledged personally supporting the families of suicide bombers -- even though, in public settings, he strenuously denies having done so." Saffuri also denounced Bush's shutdown of the Holy Land Foundation, which was funneling charitable contributions to Hamas.
Norquist has also carried water for Islamic supremacist attempts to weaken anti-terror efforts. Gaffney reveals that "Norquist was also a prime-mover behind efforts to secure one of the Islamists' top pre-9/11 agenda items: the abolition of a section of the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act that permits authorities to use what critics call ‘secret evidence.' ... Norquist was an honoree at an event held by Sami Al-Arian's National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom in July 2001, two months before 9/11. The award was for being a 'champion of the abolishment movement against secret evidence.'" Al-Arian in 2006 pleaded guilty "conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds to or for the benefit of Palestinian Islamic Jihad." Palestinian Islamic jihad is even worse than Hamas's; it celebrates the killing of Israeli civilians and calls repeatedly for the destruction of Israel.
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Norquist also introduced Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to President Bush. CAIR is one of the foremost Islamic supremacist hate sponsors in the U.S. Terror expert Steve Emerson wrote that "CAIR, which touts itself as America's premier Muslim civil rights organization, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Terror trial." He noted that CAIR co-founders Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad attended "a 1993 Philadelphia meeting where the HAMAS members and supporters discussed a strategy to kill the Oslo Peace Accords, which threatened to marginalize HAMAS. The group also discussed ways to improve HAMAS fundraising in America."
Emerson also reveals that according to the testimony of an FBI agent, "CAIR was listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee." The Palestine Committee is dedicated to jihad for the destruction of Israel. Emerson reveals that a 1992 memo seized from a jihadi's home explains that "Palestine is the one for which Muslim Brotherhood prepared armies -- made up from the children of Islam in the Arab and Islamic nations to liberate its land from the abomination and the defilement of the children of the Jews and they watered its pure soil with their honorable blood which sprouted into a jihad that is continuing until the Day of Resurrection and provided a zeal without relenting making the slogan of its children ‘it is a Jihad for victory or martyrdom.'" Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad were also listed as members of the Palestine Committee.
Robert Spencer added this about CAIR:
CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. 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 (Honest Ibe Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. CAIR has warred against free speech in the past.
These are Grover Norquist's bedfellows.
Again I will point out that Tanezza Isalm refused to denounce the Muslim Brotherhood and their support of Hamas. Taneeza not only worked for CAIR-MN, but she also worked on the Islamic Society of North America's youth indoctrination programs. Now she is in South Dakota and is using the Republican crony capitalists and their system of legalized corruption in order to infiltrate our government. And Cory Heidelberger is willing to defend the Republican's system of legalized corruption in order to continue his Sharia affair with Taneeza Islam., as the atheist aligns himself with the Islamic Religious Right, who are not tolerant to those Muslims who chose to leave Islam. Their common goal is the destruction of America's national sovereignty. It will be difficult to stop them with the Chamber of Commerce's crony capitalists siding with them. More to come on how destroying America's national sovereignty in order to setup an international socialist order, or a global caliphate, makes for strange bedfellows.
"Holy S.D. Stealth Islam," BatSibby.
Great research & summary of what's really happening!
So the connections go something like this?
-Muslim Brotherhood to
-Hamas to
-CAIR to
-Taneeza Islam, SD Voices for Peace & Interfaith Group to
-Dr. Dave Kapaska/Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce to
-Effective Sharia control over S.F legislators to
-Shut down of free speech events & any criticism of Islam whatsoever.
Posted by: JimHoliway | February 01, 2018 at 01:57 PM