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Wisconsin: Muslima who claims discrimination because of her hijab exposed as a fraud

Nov 26, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

There are so few instances of actual “Islamophobia” that the victimhood narrative and hysteria surrounding Muslims in the West has to be constantly shored up with fake hate crimes. This may not be one, it may be real, but the previous false claims cast doubts.

“Support For A Muslim Business Owner Backfires Because Of Social Media,” by Gene Marks, Inc., November 25, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

There’s a curious story developing in Appleton, Wisconsin, a small town of about 75,000 residents located near Green Bay.

The story is about Sapphire Moon Chocolates and its owner Tarina Swanson. Swanson, who opened the chocolate and sweet shop this past September, proudly calls herself a United States Army veteran. She is also a Michigan-born Muslim who wears a traditional hijab headscarf. Where I live, that fact would hardly raise an eyebrow. But Swanson says her faith has attracted unwanted attention – even discrimination.

When customers would enter her store she “would pop up over the counter and say, ‘Hi there,'” Swanson told local television station WBAY. “They would look at me kind of blankly, and they would just turn around and leave.”  But that wasn’t all. In another report, Swanson says that one woman assaulted her verbally and another woman stood in her doorway and yelled that she “would never buy anything from a woman who wears a headscarf.’” Hard to believe? Not really. Swanson’s story isn’t an isolated tale.

“I believe her,” Mohamed Abdelazim, the leader of a local Islamic Center told the Appleton Post Crescent. “Some other members complained about similar things. It’s not very common in Appleton, but it could have happened to her.”

To show support, a pastor and former college professor of Swanson’s posted a photo and encouraged her friends to shop at the store. The post garnered more than 4,000 shares and 3,000 reactions in just a few days on Facebook and people began “lining up” to buy her chocolates.  So, a happy ending, right?

Unfortunately, not.  Because here the story takes a turn.

The well-intentioned Facebook post also drew the attention of someone else: a private investigator working for an insurance company.  The investigator was looking into a $550,000 workmen’s compensation claim that Swanson filed a few years before, alleging injuries she incurred at her former employer.  But those injuries were called into question after the investigator visited the store and photographed Swanson bending over and doing other physical chores. Because of these photos, a judge last week awarded her an amount far less than what she expected….

Was she the victim of religious discrimination in the first place? Given the times, it wouldn’t surprise me. But unfortunately her story, once it became public, revealed facts about her which ultimately influenced a judge to rule against her in another, unrelated case. “It did not go well because of the Facebook posts,” she admitted….

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, Featured, hate crimes Tagged With: Appleton, Sapphire Moon Chocolates, Tarina Swanson, Wisconsin


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  1. Jayell says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 8:31 am

    The muslim ideology openly condones and promotes dishonesty. especially in dealings with ‘unbelievers’. It is therefore logical NOT to get involved in dealings with musiims. If Ms.Swanson wants to avoid situations where people avoid dealing with her, she might be advised to conceal her muslim connections by NOT wearing her headscarf, although this would also add up typically-islamic deception. But it might be better still if she examined the reasons why people might shun her instead of indulging in the usual ‘;islamophobia’ whingeing, and she might find that find that these are clearly written into her rubric of her ‘faith’, and that people are very well aware of that fact. Perhaps then she might ask herself why she has chosen to associate herself with this ‘faith’.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Nov 29, 2019 at 6:20 pm

      Exactly. And it’s quite astounding that the rest of the world seems expected to hide our opinion and aversion to this supremely retarded affront.

  2. roberta says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 9:12 am

    Is it discrimination to not buy chocolate from someone that practices a ”religion” that openly practices hate and discrimination toward all other beliefs? Im kinda lost on this one.
    Was it wrong of me to change pharmacies after the hijab behind the counter messed up my prescription 3 times in a row? How many times can I smile and say ”oh, its ok, Ill come back tomorrow”? It is almost like she is inept or has a diploma mill title out of pakistan. Naw, Im the problem.
    I dont buy the gas at their EBT fraud mini-marts either. Dont like paying for the weapons stash at the mousk.

    • WPM says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 12:17 pm

      +1
      ,I would not buy or go into a store with someone in a KKK hood and robes, or someone wearing Nazi symbols why should I buy anything from a bigot who wants to enslave or kill me? Anyone in a hijab is in the uniform of hate Any food they sell could be tamper with .Any money they make could go to other terrorist who plan to murder people like me and my family at some future date or place.

      • Valkyrie Ziege says

        Nov 27, 2019 at 3:47 pm

        ; Brilliant analogy. Thank You! Besides, I’ll make my own chocolates, thank you. We don’t need who-knows-what her religious leader, or the-voices-in-her-head, told her to put in the chocolates. It isn’t worth taking a chance.
        Although it’s a different religion, e.g., There is the life lesson from the use of biological weapons used by “Ma Anand Sheela” in conjunction with Rajneesh movement in what was Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon, including an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, plus attempted murder of Rajneesh’s physician, wiretapping, and bugging within the commune, within Rajneesh’s home, and poisonings of two public officials, and arson, among other heinous crimes.
        Same fascist thinking, from a different style fascist.

    • Smith Nerida says

      Nov 27, 2019 at 4:47 am

      Never will swipe my card at the petrol station again, when “they” are serving. he said it hadn’t gone through, so he swiped it again, I found out later online Id paid twice for my petrol.

  3. somehistory says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 9:24 am

    She’s blaming fb for her own deceit. That’s the moslim way. It’s the way of the psychopath. Never accept responsibility for one’s actions that have a bad outcome; never just accept the consequences of bad decisions…blame someone else.

    “she would *pop up* from behind the counter.’ Doesn’t sound very professional. It seems to me that it was meant to startle the customer…to walk in and not see anyone and then she “pops up” and speaks.

    To tell the truth, if I went in to a shop and saw a moslim popping up or just standing behind the counter, I too, would walk out again.
    So, I can believe that others walked out, but to the moslims, it’s all about the head rag. and never about what the person knows about islam they find so distasteful.

    One thing moslims don’t get….a person can choose to be a customer of a particular business…or not. it isn’t against the law to not buy because of dislike of another’s ‘culture’ or ‘religion.’ A few years ago, people were forced to buy certain insurance, but it isn’t a law…yet, anyway…that we must buy from moslims whatever they may be selling.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Nov 29, 2019 at 6:36 pm

      Their little start-up businesses seem to invariably go down in flames before arising like the Phoenix in a new incarnation. Locals have suggested that muslim cohorts now have placements in the insurance business.

  4. somehistory says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 9:28 am

    there used to be a saying heard frequently: He has discriminating tastes. Or she has. Those who choose not to do business with moslims are just using their “tastes.” And in that, it is acceptable to discriminate.
    Who can tell what she puts in her chocolates or if her hands are clean? some of their “cultural” religious practices are just so dirty, they are nasty.

  5. FYI says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 10:47 am

    She sounds like a convert to islam:islam does attract stupid women

    I mean if you convert to islam and are female..

    1]The koran insists you have only HALF the value of a man k2:282
    You will NEVER be equal to a man in islam!

    2]islam’s child-raping “prophet” muhammed said the reason the koran insists a woman’s value is HALF that of a man is due to women having “a deficiency of the mind”

    3]That hijab is worn in honor of a fake Arab misogynistic bigot of a god,al LAH, who knows LESS BIOLOGY than any modern woman{see the scientific mistakes in the koran,especially the Biology ones},will be sending women to hell anyway{Sahih muslim 241 for being TAKFURNA,ungrateful}and doesn’t like women
    {the koran is all about what MEN get:women don’t count!}

    Any woman who converts to such a misogynistic cult is,i’m sorry,a complete moron!

    • Mark Berlinger says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 11:29 am

      The Hijab

      It’s the “in your face” advertising of a woman’s mandatory submission to a seventh century cult. The black flag, minarets and the veil indicate that Islam rules in this place.

      You don’t need to be an imam to understand Sura 4. Read it. There is absolutely nothing in Islam for women spiritually or politically. Females are kept in bondage of this retrograde culture through family and fear. The typical convert’s willful ignorance of Sharia exhibits a giving up of the freedom of self-determination and acceptance of spiritual bondage.

      • FYI says

        Nov 26, 2019 at 11:39 am

        On You Tube..2 relevant videos…

        1}Apostate Prophet:the origin of the hijab-allah takes orders from a man.

        Explains where the hijab REALLY comes from.

        islamic apologists will say that it is mandated by allah in the koran:but do you know what else is in the koran?

        2}SyeTen the sound of muslims

        worth looking at….

    • Save Europe says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 11:20 pm

      She IS a convert, very clearly!

      Tarina Swanson is NOT a Muslim name. Worryingly, I’ve seen this FAR too much – US and U.K. military personnel who have served in the Middle East, converting into Islam because they think it’s benign. I’m sadly, serious.

  6. James Lincoln says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    Based upon my research,

    Swanson is about three years into a workers’ compensation lawsuit against a former employer. She stated that a patient had fallen on her and that she was unable to work because of her injuries. She specifically stated the following:

    “I can’t lift, bend, stoop or twist. The physical stuff, I can’t do,” she said. “I still have a bad knee. I limp. I still have a bad back.”

    She claimed $140,000 for knee replacements and lost lifetime wages of $410,000 for a total of $550,000.

    Facebook pictures / posts prompted a private investigator to look into the shop. After this, the investigative team got a picture of her bending into a chocolate case. BENDING…

    Based upon this, the judge decided to lower the amount of the settlement, which she apparently refused.

    The judge was actually quite lenient. The settlement portion regarding lost wages could have been reduced very substantially and Swanson could have been charged with workers compensation insurance fraud – a felony. This could have resulted in the following:

    –Personal refund to the employer of any amounts paid that were not a direct result of the work injury.

    –A fine.

    –Possible jail time.

    And she’s worried about her chocolate shop…

    • somehistory says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 2:50 pm

      Thank you, James Lincoln, for the extra information. Sounds like she got off easy.

      And now, she wants even more based on her “discrimination” claims. But one does not have to buy from any particular merchant or frequent any particular business. It is the choice of the customer with whom to do business. moslims don’t seem to have any understanding of the ways of a free society as opposed to one run entirely by their kind. If they do understand it, they still fight it tooth and nail to get their own way established.

      • Scott Carlson says

        Nov 27, 2019 at 4:46 am

        It’s because they have a supremacist mindset. They can’t stand others that are non-Muslims having rights. They think of non-Muslims as subhumans.

    • Scott Carlson says

      Nov 27, 2019 at 4:51 am

      She was likely scamming money for CIAR.

  7. Scott Carlson says

    Nov 27, 2019 at 4:40 am

    Yes, I’m well aware of the”Islamaphobia card” Muslims use to intimidate anyone who speaks out against or tells the truth in exposing Islam.
    They don’t want the west to know the truth about Islam/Sharia Law because no one would agree with it if they knew what it really is.

    Muslims know their sinister totalitarian ideology depends on the ignorant minds of the west. They exploit that ignorance and pit the ignorant against the educated. Works like a charm and that why you see them smirking/smiling when/after they use it.

  8. Kerry Wade says

    Nov 27, 2019 at 8:45 am

    I’ll never patronise a Muslim shop, I’ll never enter a store selling that apalling halal, not ever. I’d rather starve. We must boycott everything involving the vile muzzies.

    • FYI says

      Nov 27, 2019 at 9:03 am

      I prefer to SMIRK….in a patronizing fashion…

      • FYI says

        Nov 27, 2019 at 9:29 am

        muslim: that infidel smirked at me officer:such hate speech!
        officer: Well smirking doesn’t constitute hate speech..it isn’t illegal..

        muslim: Well….It is in Abdooolistan.
        officer:?I don’t think i’ll proceed with this..

        muslim: ALLAHU AKBAR,ALLAHU AKBAR:i’m a victim of hate speech!

        officer: alright,alright.enough already..maybe it is “islamophobia” after all.
        we don’t want you throwing a tantrum..

  9. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 27, 2019 at 9:06 am

    Even if Swanson’s chocolate shop story were valid, I would say ”so what?” As for religious discrimination, if I am peckish and there is an Italian restaurant and a Chinese one side-by-side, am I showing religious or ethnic discrimination if I eat at one restaurant and not both? Damn straight and so what?

  10. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Nov 27, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    : I’ll make my own chocolates, thank you. I don’t need who-knows-what her religious leader, or the-voices-in-her-head, told her to put in the chocolates. It isn’t worth taking a chance.

  11. Simon Platt says

    Nov 27, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    One “verbal assault” and one “I wouldn’t buy anything from a woman in a headscarf”? And that’s supposed to be “islamophobia”?

  12. gravenimage says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 1:13 am

    Wisconsin: Muslima who claims discrimination because of her hijab exposed as a fraud
    ……………………………

    This should not surprise. How many of these fake claims of Muslim victimhood have there been?

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