Glenda Gasparine apparently doesn’t have a very high opinion of Islam, and some of her colleagues, who are not Muslim themselves but have been thoroughly indoctrinated into Leftist sensibilities, are calling for her resignation. Her crime? She posted on her personal Facebook account something that apparently said — “falsely,” Islamic scholar Makenna Hall of the News and Tribune assures us — “that imams, Muslim worship leaders, follow the idea that killing people who do not follow Islam will ensure Muslims a place in Heaven.”
Well, yes, that is crudely put indeed, although Hall doesn’t deign to quote Gasparine’s exact words, no doubt to shelter the tender equilibriums of southern Indiana readers. It’s true: Islam doesn’t teach that “killing people who do not follow Islam will ensure Muslims a place in Heaven.” However, it does teach that those who are killed while killing people who do not follow Islam will be ensured a place in paradise: “Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)
It’s virtually certain that Gasparine’s critics aren’t aware of that verse, or of anything else about Islam. They just know that Gasparine has said something that people aren’t supposed to say nowadays. They’re worried that she will now discriminate against Muslims, which is just more of the woolly thinking and victimhood mentality that is all-pervasive nowadays. If Gasparine had criticized Christianity, would her outraged colleagues be saying that she couldn’t treat Christian customers fairly? Almost certainly not. But hating Christianity is acceptable today to the Leftist intelligentsia and thus to indoctrinated sheep such as Kiger and Crum; saying something largely accurate but critical about Islam is not.
“SIRA CEO faces backlash from Islamophobic Facebook post,” by Makenna Hall, News and Tribune, July 21, 2022:
SOUTHERN INDIANA — A Facebook post by the president and CEO of the Southern Indiana Realtors Association (SIRA) has been brought to the attention of the association’s board for review.
Glenda Gasparine made a post on her personal Facebook account this week that other SIRA members criticized for being discriminatory and Islamophobic.
Gasparine’s post was copied and pasted from another user about a Christian person’s alleged encounter at a diversity training seminar. The post falsely states that imams, Muslim worship leaders, follow the idea that killing people who do not follow Islam will ensure Muslims a place in Heaven.
In the original post the author Brian Canfield said: “The Muslim religion is the faster growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races…In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President.”
The post has since been deleted from Gasaprine’s [sic] page, according to SIRA member Paul Kiger. The News and Tribune obtained screenshot photos of the post.
Kiger said that the post was brought to the attention of the SIRA board of directors.
“My hope is that our board of directors calls an immediate emergency meeting and then they ask for her resignation,” he said.
SIRA members Staci Thompson and Lincoln Crum both said that they hope the board of directors responds to the situation.
Crum said that he is curious what the board will say but he is not at this time calling for her resignation….
“What would happen if a Muslim buyer who lost out on a house with a multiple offer situation and then they later read a statement from the CEO that supports this kind of culture that she posted?” [Kiger] said.
Crum and Kiger also pointed to how it would look for SIRA if Muslim buyers, sellers or SIRA members were to see the CEO make that kind of post.
Kiger questioned how a current or future Muslim SIRA member would feel if they read that post and then had to meet Gasparine for business.
Though the post was made on her personal account, SIRA members still think Gasporine [sic] was in the wrong….
Neither Kiger nor Crum were aware of any federal regulations specifically regarding posts made on personal accounts.
Crum said that he plans run for the board of directors because he wants to ensure that behavior like Gasparine’s does not continue….
livingengine says
“Kiger said that the post was brought to the attention of the SIRA board of directors.”
Yes, by CAIR.
Gasparine is the second person CAIR has attacked on TV this month, and the 18th this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPHD3VHin4w
libertyORdeath says
We cannot allow opinions or beliefs to be wrongfully conflated with discrimination.
Should we go through every muslim’s social media and look for supposed “anti-christian” or “anti-hindu’ posts and fire them for the thought crime of having a different opinion? Not in America.
Preserving the liberty of those we disagree with is a uniquely AMERICAN pursuit. Alln Dersherwitz is a paramount example of this AMERICAN trait. It’s basically America’s version of the golden rule. Always remember that to achieve total victory we must afford our enemies the same rights, liberty, and respect that we give our fellow patriots and that we expect for ourselves.
mortimer says
Sharia gives the control of speech in the Islamic society to the mullahs who alone have the freedom of expression. The mullahs are permitted to lie and no one may contradict them.
Sharia law is totally opposed to the First Amendment.
libertyORdeath says
That’s exactly what we should strive to avoid. Some extreme measures will undoubtedly be necessary during our fight to take our country back, but we should always come back to the Constitution to find the way forward.
John Allan says
Preserving the liberty of those … is a uniquely American pursuit…
Err, NO, it isn’t!
I’m not sure that it’s even a uniquely WESTERN pursuit!
But it is most certainly not peculiar to the good ol’ US of A.
libertyORdeath says
I would disagree. Even though we have not lived up to the high standards at all times, America is unique in it’s insistence on providing basic rights to even those who try to destroy us. Many countries have adopted this stance since our founding, but the idea of inalienable God given rights is in fact uniquely AMERICAN. The so-called charter of human rights that Canada and most of the EU supposedly support is a weak copy of the bill of rights that posits said rights as mere privileges given by the government. Since they are given by the government, they can also be easily taken away by the same government (See the Canadian trucker protests where their basic right to protest was infringed upon). Many think that they have the same rights as Americans until they are taken away by despotic regimes like that of Justin Trudeau.
libertyORdeath says
Canada – Section 1 of the Charter establishes that the guarantee of freedom of expression and other rights under the Charter are not absolute and can be limited under certain situations
EU – The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or the rights of others…
China – No unit or individual may use the Internet to create, replicate, retrieve, or transmit the following kinds of information:
Inciting to resist or violate the Constitution or laws or the implementation of administrative regulations;Inciting to overthrow the government or the socialist system;Inciting division of the country, harming national unification;Inciting hatred or discrimination among nationalists or harming the unity of the nationalities;Making falsehoods or distorting the truth, spreading rumours, destroying the order of society;Promoting feudal superstitions, sexually suggestive material, gambling, violence, murder;Engaging in terrorism or inciting others to criminal activity; openly insulting other people or distorting the truth to slander people;Injuring the reputation of state organs;Other activities against the Constitution, laws or administrative regulations.
In addition to the worldwide restrictions on free speech, try to find another country that EXPRESSLY permits the right of citizens to ARM THEMSELVES and to use said arms to fight a tyrannical federal government.
The right to a fair trial, which is admittedly being ignored in America right now by totalitarian leftists and deep-state actors, is another that is almost completely absent in most of the world.
I’d be interested in hearing about ANY other country that has definitive rights that match those listed above. The catch is that these rights MUST BE inalienable and God given, otherwise they are mere suggestions that are subject to the discretion of the current government.
So many Canadians and Europeans THINK that they have the same guaranteed rights that we enjoy in America…until they actually look at the statutes that clarify how these so-called rights are actually only PRIVILEGES that have sweeping restrictions, limitations and the ability to be withdrawn at any moment.
somehistory says
well, they can’t allow the Truth to get out, now can they? It might alert people to the dangers of having mozlum neighbors, bosses, doctors, cab drivers, …the ones who wish to receive that most disgusting *reward* ever promised….lusty drunken scum raping young girls and boys. ad being observers of the mass-murdering, raper of children, lying sack of maggot dung, and son of satan the devil. raping the Mother of Jesus Christ.
the Truth about this death wish of mozums…the wish to cause the death of an infidel…might cause more people to be cautious as to whom they trust. Can’t have them questioning the morality or ethics or honesty or trustworthiness of mozlums.
mortimer says
The mullahs want to control all speech, because Islam will collapse if free discussion of Islam is permitted.
Freedom of speech is the enemy of Islam and the Leftists.
somehistory says
blah blah
mortimer says
What is your intellectual argument?
E.D. says
You’ve got that right!
It’s “taqiyyah” or nothing at all, in the mohammedan ideology. Truth is the weapon that does the greatest damage to their oppressive cult of subjugation.
Pray Hard says
The entire real estate industry is becoming sickeningly woke. And, it’s uber-woke because Crack Pipe Joe is trying to destroy it so that the the mega banks can take over. All in the real estate industry, brokers, agents, appraisers, inspectors, surveyors live in constant dread of being sued because they called an Indian an Indian or a 21 year old a young person or they showed a black person a house in a black neighborhood even if that’s the only place the black person wanted to buy. It’s insane and sick because the powers that be make it insane and sick.
Pray Hard says
These same sanctimonious cucks will rue the day that they worried about moslem or chinese feelings.
gravenimage says
Southern Indiana Realtors Association (SIRA) CEO under fire for ‘Islamophobic’ Facebook post
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Glenda Gasparine is *not wrong*. But does the truth even matter with most leftists these days?
mortimer says
Agree with GI: Gasparine is not wrong. Here’s the proof:
Mohammed commands the killing of apostates, and promises eternal rewards for doing so:
-“When I relate to you the words of Mohammed, by Allah, I would rather die than bear false witness to his teachings. However, if I should say something unrelated to the prophet, then it might very well be a lie so that I might deceive my enemy. Without question, I heard Mohammed say, “In the final days before Redemption there will emerge groups of foolish youths who will say all the right things but their faith will go no further than their mouths and will flee from their religion like an arrow. So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
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In 1992, Islamist militants gunned down Egyptian secularist Farag Foda. Before his death, he had been declared an apostate and enemy of Islam. During the trial of the murderers, Al Azhar scholar Muhammad al-Ghazali testified that when the state fails to punish apostates, somebody else has to do it.
No doctrine depends on a single Koranic verse, but on the Koran, hadiths, Sira and canonical rulings. What is ‘normative Islam’ is decided by the fatwa department at Al Azhar University, not by private opinion. In the 1992 murder of apostate Farag Foda, Al Azhar’s scholars argued that when the state fails to punish apostates, somebody else has to do it.”
– Hadith of Al-Tirmidhi:
The martyr (shaheed) has seven blessings from Allaah: he is forgiven from the moment his blood is first shed; he will be shown his place in Paradise; he will be spared the trial of the grave; and he will be secure on the Day of the Greatest Terror (the Day of Judgement); there will be placed on his head a crown of dignity, one ruby of which is better than this world and all that is in it; he will be married to seventy-two of al-hoor al-‘iyn; and he will be permitted to intercede for seventy of his relatives.
mortimer says
– “They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.” – K. 4: 88-89
– Mohammed said, “So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
Infidel says
I wonder whether anyone captured the irony of this group’s name – SIRA – being the same as the term used for the biography of Muhammad?
But congratulations to Glenda Gasperine for letting it out: I do hope she doesn’t lose her job as a result. Conservatives in her community should stand up for her
somehistory says
I knew I had seen that someplace…on here, it had to be, but wasn’t sure about the meaning. tat is ironic.
somehistory says
my keyboard wants to leave out the ‘h’ in words. That is ironic.
Andrew Blackadder says
Just imagine the result against her if she had said something that was actually untrue or insulting about islam.
muslims can say whatever they wish against Christians and Jews within the USA today, as well as Europe, but if anybody writes that islam is a Fascist Religious Cult from Satan then they wish to cut my head off… Come and get it Ali Baba.
The Left and islamic teachings are THE strangest bedfellows in the history of humanity.
Infidel says
Actually, muslims are okay w/ infidels saying untrue things about islam…. as long as it is flattering
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Stop confusing people with the facts.
It’s offensive!
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“…Brian Canfield said: “The Muslim religion is the faster growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races…In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President.”
He missed the fact that we have already had a muslim president – Barack Obama.
somehistory says
Yep. that escaped the notice of many who refused to see the handwriting on the wall….and from his own words from his lying, drug-consuming mouth.
Michael Copeland says
What did the Reading park jihad killer say after killing three non-mualims?
“I’m going to paradise for the Jihad what I did to them”.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/01/the-mystery-of-the-extremist-ideology/