Burglary is “entry into a building illegally with intent to commit a crime, especially theft.”
Did these women enter the mosque illegally? There is no indication of that in this article — nothing about their picking a lock or going through the window or some such. By all appearances, they seem to have gone through an unlocked door. Is that burglary? And what did they take? Some brochures. Usually houses of worship have brochures set out that they want people to take. They’re free. Were these brochures that were being offered for sale? There is no indication of that in the article. So why the charge of burglary? Is there something that the Washington Post is not telling us, or are these women being railroaded and made an example of for their “Islamophobia”?
Certainly they were rude and crude, and they behaved in an egregious manner. I’m not excusing or condoning their behavior. But the burglary charge is extremely curious, and they have every reason to be concerned about Sharia: the “information” about Sharia given by the Muslim spokesmen toward the end of this article is typically misleading. Iran and Saudi Arabia are two of the very few countries that implement Sharia’s barbaric and inhumane punishments because they are two of the very few countries that implement Sharia in its fullness. There isn’t some other, benign form of Sharia that is implemented elsewhere. Everywhere Sharia has ever been implemented, there is the death penalty for apostasy, second-class status for women and non-Muslims, stoning for adultery, amputation for theft, etc. If Sharia ever came to the U.S., all that would be part of it here as well.
And no Muslims wish to bring Sharia here? Really? Omar Ahmad, Hamas-linked CAIR’s co-founder and longtime Board chairman, once said: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” He denies saying those words, but the original reporter still stands by her story. And Hamas-linked CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” Meanwhile, according to a captured internal document, the Muslim Brotherhood (to which all the major Muslim groups in the US are linked) is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house….so that it falls, and Allah’s religion is victorious over other religions.” Then there is the Washington, DC imam who wants to “establish an Islamic State of America by 2050.”
Unless there are key details that the Washington Post has left out of its story, these women are being unjustly charged.
“Two women took kids to a mosque and filmed themselves deriding the ‘illegal takeover’ by Muslims,” by Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, March 16, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Two Arizona women have been arrested and charged with burglary after they went to a mosque — with three children in tow — and recorded themselves mocking the Muslim faith.
The incident, which happened earlier this month, comes at a time of heightening anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States.
Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer went to the Islamic Community Center in Tempe, Ariz., to, as Gonzales claimed, “expose” the evils of sharia law and the “invasion and illegal takeover” by Muslims. Gonzales posted a Facebook Live video of the duo and the children walking into the outdoor playground of the mosque. They grabbed brochures and fliers about events, prayer announcements, classes and services and made disparaging comments about Muslims while Gonzales kept live-streaming.
“Oh, look at that! Food stamps, huh. Oh, look at that, double your food stamps,” Gonzales said, appearing to read a flier posted on a bulletin board. “You’re already getting free tax money. Why don’t you double it? All on the American hard-earned taxpayer.”
“Look at this, you guys,” she added, talking to her Facebook Live viewers.
Walking over to another bulletin board, the women saw an announcement about tax assistance, which prompted Gonzales to say: “What do they work and do? They don’t even work.”
At one point, Gonzales can be heard telling one of the children to not touch the outdoor slide, suggesting it’s covered in “germs.”
“This is the infiltration of the Arabic Muslim, coming in and destroying America,” Gonzales told her Facebook Live viewers. “The Muslims are nothing but evil Satan worshipers. … Pedophilia runs deep in the Muslim community.”
At one point, Dauenhauer marveled at their haul: “We have so much literature.” To which Gonzales said, “Yep, we’re gonna expose this.”
Detective Lily Duran, spokeswoman for the Tempe Police Department, said the women were arrested Thursday and charged with burglary, a felony. She said “an enhancement of hate crime will be considered” for their sentencing.
Arizona does not charge people with hate crimes, but defendants could face an increased sentence if they committed a felony motivated by bias against a person’s race, gender, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Gonzales and Dauenhauer were transported and booked into the Tempe City Jail.
A message left at a number that appeared in public records under Gonzales’s name was not returned. She also did not respond to a Facebook message. The Washington Post was unable to find a contact number and Facebook page for Dauenhauer. The video is no longer on Gonzales’s Facebook page, but versions of it are still percolating online.
The alleged crime appears to have happened on March 4 without the knowledge of the mosque’s staff. Ahmad Al-Akoum, the mosque’s imam, said he didn’t know it had occurred until a few days later, after the Southern Poverty Law Center contacted the mosque about the video. The mosque alerted Tempe police, and authorities later subpoenaed Facebook to obtain the Facebook Live video, Al-Akoum said.
“It’s really disheartening and disturbing to see people this time and age as ignorant as those people are in terms of their knowledge of Islam and Muslims,” Al-Akoum said. “What’s most devastating for me was to see them tagging along those young, innocent children and giving them lessons on hate and teaching them how to be intolerant.”
Referring to the video, Al-Akoum said the women bragged about what they were doing at the mosque and invited people to show up at some of the activities announced in the fliers. He said he had to make calls to warn people that protesters might show up at their events.
Al-Akoum said Gonzales’s comments were filled with misconceptions about sharia law. He noted a part of the video in which the women can be seen walking toward a nearby restaurant that sells halal meat, which Gonzales seemed to associate with sharia law.
“Halal, it means clean. It means it’s really good for you,” Al-Akoum said. “But for her, that was sharia law.”
Sharia law is a set of rules that govern aspects of the daily lives of Muslims. Soner Cagaptay, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, wrote: “In the West, sharia law is often associated with corporal punishment, such as beheadings carried out by Islamist extremists and the likes of the Islamic State. But in fact, only a few countries, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, enact sharia in this form.”
In a 2016 column outlining myths about sharia, Asifa Quraishi-Landes, a University of Wisconsin law professor, wrote that sharia is not necessarily a law in the sense that the West sees it.
“Sharia is not a book of statutes or judicial precedent imposed by a government, and it’s not a set of regulations adjudicated in court,” she wrote. “Rather, it is a body of Koran-based guidance that points Muslims toward living an Islamic life.”
Sharia is also not about conquest or forcing Islam on non-Muslims, Quraishi-Landes said. Scholars on fiqh, or the human interpretation of sharia, “always insisted that Muslims in non-Muslim lands must obey the laws of those lands and do no harm within host countries,” she wrote.
“There’s no Muslim in their sane mind who’ll say, ‘We want to establish sharia in America,’ ” Al-Akoum said.
The incident follows a year when the number of hate groups across the country climbed. The Southern Poverty Law Center tallied 954 active hate groups nationwide in 2017, a 4 percent increase from 2016. The center said most of the growth was concentrated in neo-Nazi, anti-Muslim and black nationalist groups….
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The question here is whether the two were interested in joining Islam or wanted to brochures to prove what a cancerous belief system it is. Either way, it is not right for two uppity Infidel broads to enter a mosque without a male escort, and only then to pray in a side room. No doubt these two walked upright and were unapologetic, and they should apologize for that, this is a mosque fer Chrissakes.
Prosecute them, enforce the Shariah. They should get two years in prison for going in and taking brochures. This is the new world order.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Wat! I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, being a troll or a shill. You should probably make your intentions a little clearer.
What they did was in poor taste but compared to the huge number of videos of Mohammadans desecrating the sanctuaries of other religions, this is tasteful, highbrow intellectual.
Sons of Liberty says
Quarashi- Landes ,…it’s just a guide to point Muslims how to live an Islamic life ? Like FIGHT THE UNBELIEVERS and let them find in you hardness ! Do not take the Christians and Jews as friends ,..as they are friends of each other ! That kind of guidance Qurashi- Landes ?
esther says
If the two were interested in knowing what is GOING ON in the mosque—the logical
course would have been a visit. No doubt they could have asked for brochures.
They acted STUPIDLY——maybe they are just guilty of being stupid. I wonder if the
adult has some PRIOR contact with muslims or a family legacy.
gravenimage says
These brochures were in outside racks and free to anyone who wanted them.
And Honest Ali, on the one side, we have two ladies flouting Tempe leash laws–on the other side, we have Muslims mutilating young girls, “marrying” children, raping women and little boys, violently rioting, and mass slaughtering Infidels.
Compare and contrast…
No Muzzies Here says
What they did: “filmed themselves deriding the ‘illegal takeover’ by Muslims”. NOT A CRIME.
But the authorities wanted to arrest them for not favoring the illegal takeover by Muslims, so they MADE UP the charge of “burglary.”
In other words, arrested them for SPEECH, which is outlawed by Amendment #1.
Diane Harvey says
“There’s no Muslim in their sane mind who’ll say, ‘We want to establish sharia in America,’ ” Al-Akoum said.
Because the operating rules for Muslimsis to lie, lie, lie until matters have reached points of no return.
But we have their Big Mo on record as saying just the opposite of Al-Akoum, “Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: “I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.”
https://sunnah.com/bukhari/2/18
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
I cannot see that they did anything wrong. There was no sign outside saying women must not enter without a male escort. Brochures are free…in most places… and probably in that mosque as well. The felony burglary charge is intimidation so no one will speak out against the Muslim invasion. I agree with them. I am sorry they got arrested.
Gene says
In Arizona Burglary in the third degree (13-1506) is defined as follows:
A. A person commits burglary in the third degree by:
1. Entering or remaining unlawfully in or on a nonresidential structure or in a fenced commercial or residential yard with the intent to commit any theft or any felony therein.
2. Making entry into any part of a motor vehicle by means of a manipulation key or master key, with the intent to commit any theft or felony in the motor vehicle.
B. Burglary in the third degree is a class 4 felony.
The 13-1506(A)(1) is the applicable section. Whether the door is locked or not is unimportant or even if the area is open to the public. You can commit a burglary if you exceed the scope of you license to be on the premises. This is why you can commit a burglary in a supermarket when you walk into an area marked off limits to customers or enter the store after hours. A private entity can set the rules of your presence on the property. For example, a church might allow everyone to enter provided that they don’t talk. If, after entering, you begin to scream and yell, you become a trespasser because you have exceeded the scope of your permission to be there, you then “remain unlawfully”. If the trespass meets the definition of a burglary, then you can be charged with burglary. Of course, you have to be made aware of the scope of your license.
The article does not provide enough information to get a conviction, but it does appear that there would be probable cause to believe they were on private property for impermissible purposes, which would allow the Burglary charge.
gravenimage says
If you watch the video you will see that the women did not even enter the Mosque. This was *not* burglary.
JawsV says
Brava Tempe AZ ladies! You did good! You’re fighting back against Islam while our leftist “leaders” grovel and submit.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Al-Akoum said. “What’s most devastating for me was to see them tagging along those young, innocent children and giving them lessons on hate and teaching them how to be intolerant.””
““Halal, it means clean. It means it’s really good for you,” Al-Akoum said. “But for her, that was sharia law.””
“Scholars on fiqh, or the human interpretation of sharia, “always insisted that Muslims in non-Muslim lands must obey the laws of those lands and do no harm within host countries,” she wrote.”
“There’s no Muslim in their sane mind who’ll say, ‘We want to establish sharia in America,’ ” Al-Akoum said.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGau8RBMNG8
StellaSaidSo says
Nice one, LIRC!!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Can’t beat a good laugh 😀
And so deserved!
gravenimage says
🙂
Frank Anderson says
Arizona may have some unusual laws regarding the charge of burglary. I wonder whether the brochures were on display or hidden. If it is obvious the documents were there to be taken, the potential for the “accused” not only beating the charge, but suing the officers and all involved for false arrest, malicious prosecution and civil rights violations is present. They need good representation and advice from a currently practicing lawyer working for them. It’s time the “other” side gets both creative and aggressive in the application of law.
mortimer says
Agree with Frank. The brochures were there to available to MUSLIMS ONLY and thus the dirty kufaar are automatically guilty because they are not MINDREADERS and they do not KNOW THEIR PLACE of submissiveness… especially KAFIR WOMEN.
Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer may have said RUDE THINGS about Muslims, but that is not a crime.
Effectively, the US Supreme Court has unanimously reaffirms that there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment. Saying rude things about Islam is not a crime.
Michael Copeland says
They took leaflets that were on display in leaflet racks. They also took away some notices pinned on a notice board, which were not leaflets.
Many a muslim “Community Centre” (mosque) is at pains to say that it is open to all the community.
Westman says
“….lessons on hate and teaching them how to be intolerant.”
This is exactly what the Quran and Sunnah teach Muslims about infidels.
HugoHackenbush says
Based on the article it seems that the most they should have been charged with is “disturbing the peace” and perhaps trespass if they refused to leave the premises after being ordered to vacate the mosqe. The fact that they face FELONY burglary charges over flyers meant to be distributed smacks of a political charge designed to cower others into silence.
Michael Copeland says
They were not ordered to leave the premises by anyone.
gravenimage says
No, they weren’t–nor did they ever enter the Mosque proper.
JawsV says
Courageous ladies. Gonzalez and Dauenhauer. You’ll be considered heroes some day after the West has submitted to Islam. Islam should have been banned after 9/11. No, it’s not peaceful, George (W Bush).
dreggsofhumanity says
Maybe it’s time for thousands of us to enter their mosques and take some brochures.
JawsV says
That’s a good idea. We need to stop the invaders and the spread of their propaganda. It’s too late for Europe but not for us.
Billy Chickens says
At 7:44 on the video it does clearly say “No Trespassing.” I find these women to be boorish, coarse and quite stupid. I was also afraid the little boy would get run over by perhaps a car backing over him or running out into the street while the women were busy filming themselves so the world could see “how not to convert Muslims to a better way of life.”
Frankly, I was embarrassed for Christians everywhere. The Muslim man probably – and rightly so – went to his friends and told them about the rude crazy infidel women.
JawsV says
And 3,000 Americans were mass-murdered by Muslims/Islam on 9/11. More Americans were mass-murdered by Muslims/Islam at Ft. Hood, in Boston, Chattanooga, San Bernardino, Orlando and on the NYC bike path. Not to mention the numerous murderous Jihads in Europe. So, lay off the Tempe ladies. No, they’re not crazy. It’s Islam that’s crazy. Brava Tempe ladies you did good! No, Christians don’t have to be embarrassed. It’s Islam and Islam’s deluded, boorish, coarse and stupid adherents who should be embarrassed. Islam’s been a plague on the planet for 1400 years. Also, we’re not converting Muslims. We’re trying to protect ourselves from Muslims and their Jihads. I couldn’t care less about the lying, deceptive Muslims in the WP article and I don’t care a fig about anti-Jew/Christian murderous Islam.
don vito says
+50, what you said.
JawsV says
You mean Jaws, vito? If so, thank you! +50! Thanks for the compliment.
don vito says
Yes Jaws, what you said
JawsV says
Thanks again, vito. After all the Saracens have done to us in the 21st century (and will do) how anyone can find fault with these brave Tempe ladies is beyond me. Meanwhile our “leaders” are cringing and groveling to the barbarians and allowing their Jihad Centers (mosks) to be built across our land. Islam is finally getting what its wanted since the 8th century — the West. It’s like letting piranhas into a goldfish bowl.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Jaws.
Indiana Tom says
Gonzales spoke the truth. I guess that is the real problem here with the Muslims..
Lydia Church says
And those imams can stick this under their hat:
If a religion will be dominant over all others, and the only accepted faith on earth, it will be Christianity, because it is superior.
It is not evil like islam.
And the Bible will be the highest authority in all the middle east and the whole world!
The evil koran will be banned.
God’s religion of the Bible will be victorious over all others.
And we will sabotage the middle east from every direction and westernize it!
So ha!
Take that you plotters of evil, intolerance, and oppression with no respect for the human rights of others!
And we don’t really do this sort of thing, but God will do it at judgment time.
infidel says
Al-Akoum said. “What’s most devastating for me was to see them tagging along those young, innocent children and giving them lessons on hate and teaching them how to be intolerant.”
VOW!! Is this not U Muslims do with Ur kids.. brainwash them into hatred from a very early and impressionable age and make them go against non-Muslims in all aspects of life and Now U call the kettle black.. VOW!! MIND BOGGLING INDEED is the Islamic logic..
Watchingtheweasels says
This is the kind of thing that happens in a police state. Facebook employee tells the SPLC, who tips off the mosque who calls the police. The police, being under the thumb of a the pro-sharia state, drum up some sort of a charge to hit these two ladies with for thoughtcrime. Granted, this isn’t quite how I would have gone about doing this, a bit more subtlety is required, but nevertheless to think that they could be arrested and charged with felony burglary for well…not actually breaking into a place or stealing anything is absurd.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
The enforcement of Mohammadan blasphemy law in America. Nothing less.
Brian hoff says
It the mpsque is build on private own land you can be charge with breaking and entry withour breaking the door or picking than lock. The state can take the kids away for teaching the kids hated of than group.
JawsV says
“Hoff” is a Muslim. He used to be “defender of islam.” He always misuses the word “than.”
Well, Muslim, then all Muslim kids should be taken away for being taught hatred of Jews and Christians by the Quran, their parents and other Muslims.
Brian hoff says
The Quran doesnot teach hater of christian and jew. Islam and Chirstian got alone very good in Medina.
JawsV says
That’s just such a bunch of camel poop, Muslim. Just can it with your lies.
gravenimage says
Muhammed exiled or slaughtered al the Jews of Medina, and he said shortly before his death that the entire Arabian peninsula would be cleansed of Jews and Christians.
Of course, “DefenderofIslam” knows this.
dee says
Find the prosecuting attorney, and follow the trail to C.A.I.R.
This s a bulls#$&@ case!! FIGHT!! Arizona!!
Frank Anderson says
I hope the case of the North Carolina prosecutor, Mike Nifong, is never forgotten. Nifong, at the behest of *REVEREND* Al Sharpton, prosecuted the Duke Lacrosse players on groundless charges, as Sharpton has done in multiple cases nationwide. Nifong was removed from office, disbarred, sued, lost, bankrupted, denied discharge of the judgments, criminally prosecuted and sentenced to jail. This should serve as a roadmap for anyone facing false charges. Prosecutorial immunity from civil suit is “qualified”, having limits. There is no prosecutorial immunity from criminal charges. “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. I have played god; and boy was is fun!” Billy E. Fisher (dec.)
Still wondering where stands Marilyn Mosby, also an Al Sharpton alum, the Maryland prosecutor in the false and groundless murder charges against 6 Baltimore police officers. Last I read there was a bar complaint filed.
Brian hoff says
DA have immunity from being sue it than criminal is found not guiel as long as he or she act in good faith. It the police fround the murder weapon than your fingerprints where pn it.
Brian hoff says
These cases hard to make.There was than DA in Pennsylvania who was warm by the federal and state court to not bring false charge against than retare man again the court will remove his immunity. He press repeat in both court false criminal charges the last one charge that person of being than terrorist. This person have than IQ less than 40.
gravenimage says
Is “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–referring to himself here?
JawsV says
Heh!
You mean “than IQ of less than 40?” Exactly! But, I’d make it 4.
gravenimage says
Jaws, I think 40 is about as low as IQ can be measured.
JawsV says
He’s still a 4.
Brian hoff says
This DA charge this retare person without police report being files without any sciencist evidence at all.As long as than DA does his job at look at evidence which show you didnot do the crime. Be inpart in doing his job.
gravenimage says
Arizona: Two women get felony burglary charges for entering a mosque and taking brochures
……………….
This is insane–how is this burglary? If the women had recorded themselves saying how interested they were in learning more about Islam I doubt they would be facing these charges.