Imagine in your residential neighborhood, there are constant disturbances, traffic problems, late-night events disturbing the peace, conflicts over the use of a public park, all by one organization and complaints to the city and law enforcement are met with a deafening silence.
So one grandma starts videoing various violations, including traffic offenses. Police spring into action and threaten her with a charge of harassment. How can this be?
Sharia in America.
The violators are connected to the Dar al-Farooq mosque (DAF) and its associated school in Bloomington, Minnesota and they said they didn’t like being recorded.
People living near a Minnesota park are fed up with years of violations by a nearby Islamic mosque.
“Friends of Smith Park” (FOSP), an organization of residents living near the Dar al Farooq Mosque (formerly Al Farooq Youth and Family Center, 8201 Park Ave South in Bloomington), presented a “Petition of Redress” to the Bloomington City Council during the July 25, 2016 meeting. In the Petition, the group is asking that the city council enforce Bloomington’s laws by addressing years of violations of the Conditional Use Permit and Joint Use Agreement granted to the Dar al Farooq Mosque in 2011.
The resident’s 18 page petition drafted by attorney Larry Frost outlines years of violations of the Conditional Use Permit (CUP) and Joint Use Agreement (JUA) committed by DAF; contending that the City’s lack of CUP and JUA enforcement not only has resulted in
DAF is seriously harming the right to quietly use and enjoy private property. That right is not only recognized as a foundational right in our law, but your Comprehensive Plan requires that quiet use be satisfied in order to grant a CUP in our neighborhood. DAF fails to satisfy the quiet use requirement by:
- Causing noise and light till 2:00AM one month a year;
- DAF scheduling events that are planned to end at midnight;
- DAF hosting an Islamic University when the previous City Manager said in a letter a university was not an allowed use;
- Causing high-speed traffic in excess of what the CUP anticipate every Friday;
- Heavy traffic threatening our kids and older neighbors who prefer retiring in our neighborhood;
- Violating our health laws, including improper disposal of asbestos, garbage left out and others.
- You have privileged DAF over all the other churches in Bloomington. (Resurrection Power Church applied right after DAF. You punished them for DAF’s violations by limiting them to less than full fire code occupancy, based only on Council member conjecture that Resurrection Power Church might someday do something that abused their position, like DAF had done. When Mount Hope church made a land use application to expand, Council member Wilcox openly said that the limits you placed on them were ‘Punishing a good church…because we are paranoid’ that Mt. Hope might become another DAF. The Council put Mt. Hope through the wringer because of DAF.) When you privilege one church and punish another, you violate RLUIPA on its face. There are several other churches who have valid RLUIPA complaints you would be hard put to defend after these statement made in open Council meetings.
- You put us at risk when you didn’t even ask DAF for the certificate of insurance the JUA requires they give you. When we asked about it, your emails show that neither you nor our civil servants followed up and made DAF prove they have insurance. Because you have not answered our requests for information yet, we don’t even know if DAF has insurance. A lawsuit by someone who is injured at Smith Park is potentially tremendously expensive. If DAF did not have insurance, you put us at hazard by once again not enforcing a provision of the JUA.
- Your staff accused those of us who spoke out of being ‘anti-islamic’ when all we ask is that you enforce the law. This makes many of citizens afraid to speak up, and that is wrong.
Traffic and parking problems around the Dar al Farooq Mosque
Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed by Grandmother Threatened with Prosecution for Filming Mosque Violations
By American Freedom Law Center, November 18, 2019:
(Minneapolis, Minnesota)—On November 12, 2019, the American Freedom Law Center filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of Sally Ness. The lawsuit alleges that the City of Bloomington, two City police officers, and the Hennepin County Attorney violated Ness’s rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments by threatening to enforce local and state laws against her for filming public information exposing various zoning and other violations committed by a local mosque and its associated school, both of which are located in Ness’s neighborhood.
AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise explained:
“The First Amendment fully protects our client’s right to gather information through photographing and videotaping. And this is particularly the case here because she is filming public matters related to a public controversy. As the courts have explained, the right to freedom of speech includes not only the actual expression of one’s views, thoughts, opinions, and other information concerning matters of public interest, but also non-expressive conduct that intrinsically facilitates one’s ability to exercise free speech rights, including efforts to gather evidence and information by photographing and videotaping. Here, the City and County seek to make a crime out of what under the Constitution cannot be a crime. Their threats of prosecution are aimed directly at activity protected by the First Amendment.”
For many years, Ness has been documenting the public controversy surrounding the Dar al-Farooq mosque (DAF) and its associated school, the Success Academy, both of which are located in her neighborhood in the City of Bloomington, Minnesota. Ness would often film zoning and other violations committed by DAF and the Success Academy that are disruptive to the neighborhood. Ness would publicly disseminate this information via a blog and Facebook page. She would also bring these violations to the attention of the City, which would largely ignore her concerns and the similar concerns of her neighbors.
This past August, City police officers confronted Ness and warned her that because people associated with DAF and the Success Academy felt “threatened” by her filming she should “stop” because she could be charged with violating the Minnesota harassment statute. Per the City’s official police report: “Ness was advised that she could be charged with harassment if the parents and principal felt intimidated by her actions.”
On October 28, the City, in an effort to appease DAF and Success Academy patrons who object to Ness’s filming, passed a City ordinance providing that “No person shall intentionally take a photograph or otherwise record a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian.” Because Ness seeks to expose, among other violations, DAF’s and the Success Academy’s noncompliant and overuse of a local City park—a park in her neighborhood that she would often attempt to use with her grandchildren—her information gathering efforts include, quite necessarily, photographing and videotaping the use of the public park by children associated with DAF and the Success Academy. Additionally, Ness has taken pictures of students being dropped off to Success Academy and weekend school to document the noncompliant number of students attending the schools and the unsafe and noncompliant drop off conditions. There is no doubt that this newly minted and unusual City ordinance was directed at her.
On October 30, at the request of a City detective, Ness met with the detective and two other City officials. The detective informed Ness that she is under investigation by the County for allegedly violating the Minnesota harassment statute due to her filming and documenting of the activities of DAF and the Success Academy. This latest threat intended to intimidate and silence Ness was the last straw, prompting the filing of this lawsuit.
AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi concluded:
“If you publicly criticize Islam, it is called ‘hate speech.’ If you exercise your First Amendment right to collect evidence of a mosque violating zoning and other laws via photographing and videotaping and expose this evidence to the public, you can be prosecuted for ‘harassment.’ This case is another example of the encroachment on our liberties when Islam is involved.”
The lawsuit asks the court to declare the Minnesota harassment statute and the City’s newly enacted ordinance prohibiting filming in a City park unconstitutional and to enjoin their enforcement, particularly as applied to restrict Ness’s First Amendment activity. Ness is also seeking the recovery of her attorneys’ fees and costs.
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go Granny!
She must win the case or Granny will be on some Muslim short list. To be dealt with.
FACT! A mosque is a WMD factory hiding in plain sight! The WMDs they produce look like peaceful humans until they receive their launch codes from their WMD factory.
Also in plain sight: Their book says in it’s weird but clear enough lingo what they plan on doing with us. In fact, that’s what it talks about the most!
“Out of the mosques wars should proceed” –
Ayatollah Khomeini
The Mosques are our barracks the domes our helmets, the Minarets our bayonets , and the Faithful our soldiers . Turkish PM Erdogan .
Disgusting, this sounds like the rotten, corrupt officials in Bloomington are doing their level best to throw out the civil rights of non-muslims in deference to their muslum masters.
You must bear in mind that Bloomington is in minnysoetah. Ten tousund svedes runnin’ trew der veeds being chased by vun sooomawwlee.
Ya shur. Yu betcha, fella. UFF-DA!
Imagine trying to say Uff-da to a hardened Muslim. What follows is Allahu Akbar – then the sword.
Agree. And Left/Liberals support illegals/jihadis !
Left/Liberal are also making ISIS / jihadis happy by making beheading fashionable https://tinyurl.com/y7k93bs9
Insane ?
They spit on us and our laws.
And the government is allowing it .
They didn’t come here to assimilate …..they came here to to divide and conquer….until that message gets around America….and voters start getting rid of the poltroons in their own local governments….it’s only going to get worse.
Then…the tipping point….
Yesterday I printed off a list from Pamela’s site for a story on November 19, 2019…the list is about “100 Senators and Representatives Who Sent Letters of Support to Designated Islamic Terror Group”
Get that list, see if your representatives are on that list…..then start targeting them….it’s in your hands on the local and state levels.
President Trump can’t do everything by himself.
Thank you very much. I have been very busy and somehow missed that article. My representative would not cave into this but I will check on my Senators. They know me and the fact I am watching.
You are more than welcome:0)
Now, spread it around anywhere you can post it.
This is a very valuable list, because most of us don’t have the time to look up all this information.
If not for Pamela Geller’s site and Ann Corcoran’s two sites (REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT WATCH and FRAUDS, CROOKS, AND CRIMINALS) we would not have any idea how much “ME” invasion in our country has happened and continuing to happen.
Trump is …STILL dangerously naive about many things.
…………….Why?
The leftists …STILL control education and the 26.7 million illegals, muslim refugees and H-1b/2b slaves are …STILL here.
Under Trump, 2-3/4 years wasted.
MUSLIMS DO NOT ADAPT TO AMERICA. OUR FREEDOM AND PEACE OF MIND IS GONE. OUR RIGHTS ARE BEING IGNORED AND DENIED. THIS WILL BE THE NEW REVOUTION FOR OUR FREEDOM. AMERICAN COWARDS HAVE SUBMITTED TO THE HORDES OF OBAMA. GET THEM OUT .
They don’t adapt to any country the come (invade?) to. Just look at Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and so on.
And even the lowest of I.Q AKA Libtards . should be able to grasp this fact but then again maybe not .
Moslems, Islamofacists; Savage sub-Animal Heathens; A cult of Intolerance, Hatred, Misery & Death
$100 says this grandma voted for hubert humphrey and every other democrat she could for the last 60 years. If so, she got what she voted for, and I have no sympathy for her or her democrat neighbors
From public records, Ness is fifty-seven, perhaps fifty-eight by now. When Humphrey got his a-s kicked, running against President Nixon in 1968, she would have even been too young to vote for him. Even when he retook his senate seat, in 1971 she was too young to vote. She wouldn’t have been able to vote until 1979 or 1980, when she turned eighteen.
Titus makes a point, though. Wonder – how did she vote after 1980?odds
I’m not makin’ book on that one. Out of only six states that Jimmy-the-Worthless-One Carter carried in 1980 … minnysoetah was in that select group. I just wanted tituspullo’s hunnert dollars.
Nixon one of the few US presidents to come from a middle class background, rather than the filthy, indolent rich.
If anyone ever took the time to compare former President Nixon’s impeachment charges against former President Clownton’s …. Nixon was accused of suborning perjury and obstruction of justice. Clownton was proven guilty of perjury and suborning perjury … and if that ain’t obstruction of justice … what is? However, to the news media, in general, Nixon was a “crook” and with Clownton, “It’s all about sex”.
I never could quite understand how with one, not even proven suborning perjury was the worst crime against mankind EVER … But, with the other … PROVEN perjury …. PROVEN suborning perjury … Hey, no big deal. “It’s all about sex”.
I never realized C-l-i-n-t-0-n had been convicted(?). Nothing ever came of it in any case. I’d vote for Nixon over practically any president since him, except maybe the elder Bush (the WW2 USN pilot) and Trump.
…there was a time when Democrats were pretty decent people….I know, I’m old enough to remember….but between the flood of ME “refugees” under Bushs and Obama….and the communists in the Dimm party…everything changed….
I was reared by Republican parents…but we had Dimms in the family….
..and don’t you think that as long as we’re thinking along “party lines” that divides us even more as we fight to keep our blessed America free and safe?
Reach out to the other side when they are struggling to do the right thing instead of slapping them back.
Sympathy is not what they are looking for, “Tit”….we are a product of our environment…..the environment has turned rotten and scary.
When you find out who you can’t criticize,you find out who is in charge.
When we bend our laws to accommodate islam, soon the muslim savages will bend us to their law.
So many examples of that around the world. Once they become 5% of the population, you better yield… or else!
They already have……7 years ago I heard about Sharia divorces being allowed in Dallas…..real estate disputes in Florida between Muslims was being decided under Sharia law….some Judge up north was allowing FMG on little girls for the Muslims…..IN AMERICA!!! it’s already here.
I thought that in our Constitution and Bill of Rights it says something about there shall be no law but American law…..
I thought the divorce issue is Dallas was similar to Rabbinical Law that has been practiced/accepted in parts of NYC for decades. Was it not?
I had not heard of the real estate disputes in FL & as for the doctors in MI – they are using OUR CONSTITUTION & OUR RIGHT to Freedom of Religion as their defense to mutilate those little girls.
Well said…scary as sh*t, but very well said.
Treasonous bastards enforcing Sharia law.
Welcome to Trudeauland.
So, the USA begins its slide downhill into Caliphate status; just like Western Europe . Pathetic.
Soon-to-be Minnesotastan.
….already is….
Dear residents: Do not stop documenting and reporting these issues. In fact more of US need to be recording and submitting to newspapers, posting on social media, filing complaints non stop until they get the message and either assimilate and obey our laws or leave.
Agreed: also note the names of people and offices or organizations (mayor, city council members, local politicians) who support or interfere with your legal rights.
….SEE MY POST ABOVE….you don’t have to look for them, Dave….Pamela printed a list of 100 Representatives and Senators who wrote letters in support of CAIR!!!….that list alone is more than enough to go by. Get the list….if your representative is on…..start harassing them.
I have the list and Trevor Loudon’s list of communists and socialists in Congress 2019. Thankfully at least one of them is retiring,,,,,,but then now we still have the old witch and now the new bitch. The police are becoming like gestapo..I will have to read up on how that was handled. They are supposed to be on the side of the public to enforce the law, but now they are para-military wannabes thanks to the military complex, combined with the shift in policing for profit. I listen to
Dave Hodges: Common Sense Show for some insight to the changing situations; then contrast his perception with Marc Levin and some of his interviews.
Keep in touch, Happy holiday and to all the PamGeller fans: MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what a city run by cowards looks like.
My heart goes out to this courageous woman. I hope she wins the lawsuit and makes millions in the process.
That’s not police. That’s garbage in my book.
“A nation busily heaping up it’s own funeral pyre.”. Enoch Powell
It’s amazing how right Powell was, what’s more amazing is that he’s equated w/nazis.
enemy inside
Obama’s Quran book of hell following Quran book of killers that hide behind kids and girls when they fight
Who couldn’t see this coming, in UK it’s called “parking jihad” and in many urban areas it’s been getting worse and worse especially these last 20 years because parking wardens have been ordered by their local authorities not to upset the “locals” by forcing them to obey the parking restrictions like everyone else.
If America with its unlimited open spaces and generous borders around buildings is having this problem with traffic congestion on a friday, imagine how bad things are on a friday in the UK with our overcrowded little island.
Complain and keep doing it until it’s easier for the authorities to help rather than ignore you, and as for the plod, they’re just playing the bully.
Remind them too, it’s ONE law for all.
I don’t care. The people elected the lical politicians who enabled this. It’s there own fault. I suggest they move.
BS!!!! Public recording is now illegal in the feral animal yard ape parasitic muslim controlled areas in the USA now???? Can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds!!! Time to sue the moronic police!!!
If she is talking on the recording she is PART of the recording!!!! In public there is no privacy according to the libturds!!!! Funny how only the libturds and muslims have the right to do what they wish.
Minnesota recording law stipulates that it is a one-party consent state. In Minnesota, it is a criminal offense to use any device to record, obtain, share or use communications, whether they are wire, oral or electronic, without the consent of at least one person taking part in the communication. This means that in Minnesota, you are legally allowed to record a conversation if you are a contributor, or with prior consent from one of the involved parties, barring any criminal intent. Minn. Stat. § 626A.02.
When in public, there can be no expectation of privacy.
Don’t take my word, contact an Attorney for confirmation.
That being said, these Muslim SWINE and THEIR DOGS from whom they were WHELPED, need to be deported FORTHWITH.
Ness should also seek damages for pain, suffering and anguish caused by the deliberate conspiracy to harass her and deprive her of her rights and freedom. I think she should sue the city officials, policemen and council members voting for the ordinance personally, as well.
Maybe the grandmother was a member of an underground group of retired militia people and she was doing recon for an attack or bombing at the mosque. Just kidding. Our government as a whole is giving away our birthright for which past generations have fought and died for. We, citizens are being discriminated against while showing favoritism towards invaders and infiltrators. This has to STOP at ALL levels of government. Showing favoritism to these invaders will not save you when it is your turn to be beheaded.
As a former resident of twenty years and living only
a mile from that Muslame Church, I can tell you that
the City of Bloomington is turning strongly to the left.
I am glad I left. Hats off to Ms Ness and her courage,
in dealing with these invasive species, which only cause
trouble and suck off the tit of public welfare.