[ April 19, 2024 ]
On October 22, the Geller Report ran this exclusive article by Robert Spencer, detailing the controversy in Stewartville, Minnesota, over a planned speech by Coptic Christian Usama Dakdok called “Exposing Sharia.” Dakdok grew up in Egypt, and he knows from his own personal experience what he is talking about; nevertheless, a local venue, the Stewartville Sportsman Club, deemed the event “Islamophobic” and canceled it.
Meanwhile, a deceptive dawah event was hosted at the Rochester, Minnesota public library with no problem: public officials are routinely played for suckers and fools by deceptive Islamic supremacists who buy their false claims that Muslims are victims (Jews are twice more often the victims of hate crimes than Muslims are, according to FBI statistics), and so the lies get a full hearing and official sanction, while the truth has to beg for a platform from which it can be heard.
And now the story gets even worse. One of the organizers of the Exposing Sharia event was Gary Froiland, a longtime employee of the Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch. But when Bob Bardwell and Tracy Bashore, Froiland’s bosses at the Ranch, heard that Froiland had helped organize the Exposing Sharia event, they summarily fired him — with no discussion, no second chance, no recourse.
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Read more about this kind of capitulation in my book FATWA: Hunted in America. This in microcosm is what is happening all over the country: the mosqueing of the workplace as people cave in to Muslim demands, or in this case, behave as if speaking the truth about Islam were some kind of offense, warranting being fired. This madness has to stop. Please contact Bardwell and Bashore at the numbers below, and tell them what you think of their firing a man whose only offense was to oppose the most brutal, violent, misogynistic ideology on the face of the earth. Do it now.
Here is the email I received from Gary Froiland:
Greetings Pamela!Thank you for your article sharing the dilemma about our event in Rochester, Minnesota to have Usama Dakdok speak. I am Gary Froiland, one of the guys helping with this event, and I am the one who designed the poster.After a pastor who promised us his church backed out the night before the event to have Usama Dakdok speak this past spring in Rochester, we planned to attempt it again in the fall with the American Legion. That should be a patriotic place to have an educational speaker explain why Sharia is not compatible with our constitution. But they too backed out of the contract and gave us our money back after they received pressure from the Sheriff’s department. So we tried the Stewartville Sportsman’s Club.That’s where your article picked up. We had just covered the town of Stewartville putting door hanging sleeves on nearly every house in town, containing the brochure “Islam in a Nutshell, Peaceful or Violent?” which includes the “Growth of Islam” chart by Bill Warner (Center for the Study of Political Islam). That’s when the Rochester Post Bulletin discovered the door hangings, and the Stewartville Sportsman Club backed out of their contract. Our team met with their board, but they were without convincing to let us use their facility.But we were not about to give up. Next I took my turn to rent a facility. The Cascade Town Hall just north of Rochester was suggested. I rented it as a “Pre-Halloween Family Event”, and added that I would be playing music. (you can type in Gary Froiland in YouTube and see some of my One-Man-Band videos). So we were able to rent the facility. We emailed people three hours before the event to give them the location, hoping that would keep protesters away. About 80 people came!Late afternoon before the event, after Usama had arrived, he called the Rochester Post Bulletin and invited them to interview him. They jumped at that opportunity for a good story, but didn’t stay long enough to hear the heart of the message, but interviewed him, took some pictures and left. That was Sunday night, October 29th.The next day the article came out with the front page news. Overall, it was a quite honest article (http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/muslims-are- victims-of-islam/article_ 0815c39d-b85c-5157-9a26- 5a3fb5553713.html) My name, Gary Froiland, is mentioned in the article, since I was the one who had rented the hall. They made it sound like I deceived them when renting, because I never mentioned we’d have a speaker, but that it was a “Pre-Halloween Family Event (the paper called it a “party”). The event was to start at 6 pm, and those invited were told that I would play music at 5:30 pm for those who came early. That I did, and then closed my half hour by leading everyone in the pledge of allegiance, and had a prayer. Then Usama did his nearly 3-hour presentation. Now the story continues: Monday the article came out in the Post Bulletin, and my boss read it. My name was in the article, and when I got to work the next morning (at Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch, www.ironwoodsprings.com), the boss (Tracy Bashore) met me first thing and fired me for my involvement in an exposing Islam event. So I was out of a job because of our attempt at Freedom of Speech.I was on the board of that Christian Ranch for 20 years, and the last four years have been a full-time employee. Bob Bardwell ([email protected]) had founded the Ranch in 1976, and even though he’s very involved every day there, he gave the job of Director to a Tracy Bachore ([email protected]). It was Tracy and other liberal employees at the Ranch that had a problem with my involvement with exposing Islam, and now that I was more public with it, he made sure it cost me my job. So I guess I don’t have any freedom of speech either.I thought you might be interested in hearing “The Rest of the Story”, so there you have it. I certainly lost my freedom of speech besides losing my job, but I would do it again. My desire is to be a patriot, and cleanse the path that our children will take from evil that lurks. If you want to talk personally to Bob Bardwell or Tracy Bashore, I included their emails above, and the main office phone number of Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch is 507-533-4315.Thank you for listening, and keep up your good work!Gary Froiland
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38 Comments
6 years ago
Bardwell and Bachore will likely come to regret firing this man for doing something that was not only on his own time but, expressing his 1st Amendment rights. I hope he sues the sh*t out of them for violating his rights.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
There is no case. The first amendment to the US constitution protects one from punitive treatment by the Federal Government, but not by your fellow man. Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch can choose to be as big a scoundrels as they want to be and fire him for any reason they choose, however they will likewise be subjected to the wrath of those who think them scoundrels.
Educate yourself and stop demanding that citizens be held accountable to the bill of rights. Its limits apply to the Federal Government ONLY and to nobody else. Ironwood has the right to fire him if they decide they don’t like his new haircut, and there is no constitutional violation. They may not fire him for his race, religion, or sexual orientation (in some states) but his political beliefs are fair game.
That said, they made a terrible mistake and should be held accountable. Sharia and Islam in general is a cancer on our planet that is metastasizing at a record pace. Everyone who sees this should scream it at the top of their lungs.
6 years ago
Reply to
Chaud
First of all, yes, an employer can fire an employee for almost any reason. However, should the employee file for unemployment, the reason for his firing will have to come up. Of course, the employer will most likely lie about the reason. But, as the employee, Gary, already stated, he was told by his supervisor, he was being fired for holding the event. A violation, in most states. All he woud likely have to do, is get one witness, and subpoena Tracy and Bob.
Unless, Minnesota just doesn’t care about employment protections for it’s citizens, there is a very good chance, he would win any subsequent claim. So, perhaps you should ‘educate’ yourself on wrongful terminations before you make such statements.
6 years ago
Guess Bob and Tracy prefer the fires of hell to standing up for Christ.
That said – I use an anonymous handle to protect everyone associated with me – including those who do NOT like me. Speaking from personal experience – Leftist hatred knows no bounds.
My semi-handle is not for me – that train left the station long ago.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Yeah. Me too. I have reasonable opinions and like to share them, but I also have to do business in this fallen world. You probably already figured out that my mother didn’t look at her newborn baby sometime in the early summer of 1964, and proclaim his name, “Chaud Caliente”.
6 years ago
” One of the organizers of the Exposing Sharia event was Gary Froiland, a longtime employee of the Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch. But when Bob Bardwell and Tracy Bashore, Froiland’s bosses at the Ranch, heard that Froiland had helped organize the Exposing Sharia event, they summarily fired him — with no discussion, no second chance, no recourse”. There are many whores to islam in allegedly Christian churches. Like judas, they take thirty pieces of silver and sell out. This is all too common a practice, it brings shame to Christianity.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The word, “Christianity” has no practical meaning any longer. This does in no way minimize Yeshua Bin Elohim, or the work he did on the cross; only the deplorable manner in which His sacrifice and teachings are profaned by those shameful fools who hide behind his anglicized, pagan adorned name to ply their deception.
6 years ago
Reply to
Chaud
Your statement is certainly true here in ‘Amerika’ – and in more and constantly more countries all around the world
– Fortunately real ‘Biblical CHRISTianity’ is thriving in the constantly increasing numbers of countries where there is real and active persecution against “the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth”
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6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Oh, in other words they are living fake christian lives. That is something that has been going on forever. It is only outward appearances that matter. Many years ago, our family left an organization like that. Never to return to “organized” religion. Shame on them.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
There is too much white wash involved in a lot of pseudo Christianity. The lack of humility and adherence to the basic principles stand out when the phoneys speak and act.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
How true. Was always told one doesn’t have to “say” anything, one just have to live the life to be know.
6 years ago
Sounds like a case of wrongful termination. Any lawyers out there?
6 years ago
islamophobia has no place in modern society. islam belongs in USA now and americans must learn to coexist with muslims. islam is peace so there is nothing yo fear. anyway try not provoking muslims
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
I would tell you to eat S*** but that would make you a cannibal
6 years ago
Reply to
Lauren Janell
Clearly he was illustrating the absurd by being absurd. His wit may be a little too dry for your taste, Lauren?
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
mOSLEMS CANNOT ” COEXIST ” WITH OTHER mOSLEMS ! mOSLEMS TURN EVERY mOSLEM COUNTRY INTO A SHITHOLE !!!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
If it’s “peace” then why should we fear them or provoking them? You lie.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mrs. Ramsay
He’s playing you. He’s proud Islam is violent and supremacist. He’s a real believer in the pagan death god Allah who is the opposite of the God Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mrs. Ramsay
The idiot is a troll who only shows up here to try and aggravate… Just block or ignore it.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
Dorrie, I have his/her flagged and did it long ago…I was only responding to the one called Mrs.Ramsey, didn’t even know what the troll said. Just trying to keep someone else from frustration. It raises the blood pressure.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
When will Muslims learn to coexist with Americans? Oh, that’s right. Never. Happily go bang your cousin.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
There is no such thing as “islamophobia”. “islamophobia” is a contrived collection of letters intended to defame and destroy anyone who opposes islam.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
I am not an ‘Islamophobe’ – even though that may be how I am classified by the ‘Powers That Be’ – and increasing numbers of Organizations and Citizens of ‘Amerika’
– But I have made the personal choice to dogmatically “believeth” that which my personal “Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” said in John 14:6 [AV] :
“I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
If ‘a peaceful follower’ of Mohammedanism {aka Islam} or any other Religion chooses to be offended by my personal choice – so be it:
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith:
as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
(Romans 1:16-17 ~ AV)
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6 years ago
What’s wrong with this picture? Everything that’s what! Why are these spineless butt kissers protecting Islam at every turn? Most people will be kept in the dark and never find out the truth about this vile so called religion while idiots like this will keep tooting their horns and do everything in their power to protect it. By not letting people speak out which is their right about Sharia and Islam is total censorship. All in the name of Islamophobia. We can’t have that now can we.
6 years ago
Reply to
Janet
Spineless indeed. To think that it was closed under the auspicious of Islamophobia is all a pile of crap. They know what went on in Sioux Falls a few hours west of Stewartville when Iranian born Pastor Shahram Hadian who converted to christianity hosted an anti muslim event which caused a stir with Ehab Jaber from Saudi Arabia who is Muslim and brought firearms to the events and posted a video on Facebook after the event. He was found guilty of federal firearms charge but still the threat carried weight with the Stewartville decision. To cave in to this ideology is shameful as we should expose it for what it is. The teachings in the bible say we need to expose sin wherever you find it…
6 years ago
I would say the people who fired him are phony Christians to start with and we are seeing a lot of false prophets these days who submit to Islam and they will answer to God!
6 years ago
True, Bible believing Christians and others with an earnest heart for exposing deception will frequently be persecuted by others who call themselves Christians in these last days. It happens all the time that “Christians” who like to cherry pick the Bible for points of personal agreement persecute those who respect the fullness of the Word.
6 years ago
Reply to
movingwaters
Unfortunately here in ‘Amerika’ – and increasing numbers of countries all around the world – ‘The Norm’ is now ‘Cafeteria Theology’ which is resulting in the ‘Church of Lukewarm CoeXist Ecumenical Laodiceanism’
– Just as their ‘Religion Pigeon’ says
– ‘The Bible is the Ultimate truth – Except the parts I DON’T LIKE – Those are just Metaphores’
https://me.me/i/the-bible-is-the-ultimate-truth-except-the-parts-dont-12223427
About which ‘The Weeping Prophet’ wrote:
“A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely,
AND the priests bear rule by their means;
AND MY PEOPLE LOVE TO HAVE IT SO:
AND what will ye do in the end thereof?”
(Jeremiah 5:30-31 ~ AV)
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6 years ago
Reply to
Bro. Nick
It is not just the devout followers of Roman Catholicism – for many of the mainline ‘Protestant Denominations’ are also very active in their rejection and denial of “ISRAEL” – the “JEWISH” people and their God given Eternal Homeland
– AND – whether they believe it or know it – that is supporting – and condoning – and joining in the actions of ALL of those who truly are anti-“ISRAEL” anti-“JEW” anti-ZIONIST BDS
– Just to name a few – the true followers of Mohammedanism – including ISIS, and Hamas Roman Catholicism Adolf Hitler – the Nazis – the neo-Nazis the KKK PC-USA ad nauseum . . . . . .
– About which “the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” personally said in Matthew 12:30 [AV] :
“He that is not with me is against me;
AND he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.”
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6 years ago
Reply to
movingwaters
True, there are so many so-called Christians out there….
“15 Be on the watch for the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits you will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? 17 Likewise, every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. 19 Every tree not producing fine fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize those men. 21 “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of the heavens, but only the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. 22 Many will say to me in that day: ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them: ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness.” (Matthew 7:15-23)
-According to Chronology, the Bible is 3,500 years old, & if you doubt this, go to a *Museum not the Internet. The Bible has been translated into about 2,600 languages, and billions of copies printed & distribute. More than 90 percent of the people in the world can read the Bible in their own language. And each week, more than a million people get a Bible! Yes, there is no other book like the Bible. Have a Bible question?
6 years ago
If this article is correct – it is my opinion that ‘Minnesota: Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch’ is ‘Christian In Name Only’ { aka CINO } – which is unfortunately becoming ‘The Norm’ here in this country of ‘Cafeteria Theology’ and ‘Amerikan Lukewarm CoeXist Ecumenical Laodiceanism’
The following Biblically sound statement was made by Bakht Singh, Indian church leader –
– “You feel sorry for us in India because of our great poverty in material things.
We who know the Lord in India feel sorry for you in America because of your spiritual poverty.
We are praying that you also might come to church with a hunger for God and not merely a hunger to see some form of amusement.”
– Excerpt from “The Two Sides of God” @ https://asiaharvest.org/the-two-sides-of-god-gaining-a-balanced-view-of-the-bible/
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D
6 years ago
why? who wants trouble???
6 years ago
Educating people on the nature of Islam is an up hill battle because of so much deception and cover up of Islam’s atrocities. The people at Ironwoods Spring Christian Ranch doing the firing should know better. Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch should be hosting people that speak out against Islam. (Just shaking my head. This is unbelievable.)
D
6 years ago
Sitting here watching a movie called, The Mortal Storm. A compressed story about how fast the Nazi degenerated into outright hatred. Watch it. Understand the characters the motives. James Stuart, Margret Sullivan Robert Young, Look for other young actors who became major or famous stars in their on right. The movie jibs to close for comfort into todays world.
6 years ago
Reply to
Merchantseamen
And it is occurring more and ever-more frequently against both Jews and Christians in countries all around the world
– The following quote is from a recent article about the worldwide exponential increase in the Religious anti-ISRAEL anti-JEW anti-ZIONIST { aka ‘Antisemitism’ Agenda }
– ‘As history has testified, during periods of stress and anxiety, Diaspora Jews face grave threats. Antisemitism, already having reached record levels since the Nazi era, is poised to become even more vicious.’
— Excerpt from – ‘Pseudo-Liberal Jews Are Causing Unspeakable Damage’ – by Isi Leibler – JANUARY 30, 2017 8:18 AM
The Algemeiner @ https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/30/pseudo-liberal-jews-are-causing-unspeakable-damage/
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D
6 years ago
Reply to
Bro. Nick
Brother Nick Thanks for the link. I am old fashioned without a smart phone so I will read the link when i get back into town after the weekend. I am not a fast reader and the explosion of information stresses me as I can’t keep up. I pull from my guts and my faith a lot. Many Blessings to you.
