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Raza鈥檚 appearance was met with vocal resistance from Democratic lawmakers, including House Minority Leader Melissa Hortman, who penned a letter to Rep. Roz Peterson asking her to rescind Raza鈥檚 invitation. Hortman鈥檚 office provided a copy of the letter to Hatewatch.

The letter states, 鈥淢s. Raza is an extremist who is associated with anti-Muslim hate groups ACT for America and the Clarion Project.鈥� After citing the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 reasons for the hate group designation, the letter also pointed to Raza鈥檚 history of anti-Muslim statements, noting, 鈥淢s. Raza鈥檚 hateful agenda includes closing mosques, enforcing a Muslim ban, rejecting refugees and policing the practice of the Islamic faith.鈥澛�

In 2014, after an ISIS-inspired assailant rammed his car into two Canadian soldiers in Quebec, Raza 鈥淎N OPEN LETTER TO ALL CANADIANS鈥� on her blog in which she proposed that the country, 鈥淧ut a moratorium on immigration from Muslim countries for a set period till [sic] matters here settle down.鈥�

In the same blog post, she also proposed that Canada 鈥淐lose all mosques for three months,鈥� claiming, 鈥淭his is not abuse of religious freedom 鈥� it鈥檚 to ENSURE that religion can be free and survive in Canada while protecting the country.鈥�

In a 2015 editorial, Raza on the Canadian government to ban niqabs (face veils) and burqas in public, claiming, they are threats to national security. 鈥淭he next government must legislate the complete ban on wearing face masks in public, not just to expose the hypocrisy of the Islamists but for the sake of our security as well,鈥� she wrote.

Raza鈥檚 support of anti-Muslim advocacy can be traced back to 2010, when she published an expressing her opposition to the construction of the Park51 Islamic center in Manhattan, which later became to be known as the 鈥淕round Zero mosque.鈥� Raza claimed building the Islamic center was a 鈥渄eliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the 鈥榠nfidel.鈥欌��

After President Trump鈥檚 first attempted Muslim Ban was announced in January 2017, Raza appeared in a Clarion Project.

Raza has lent her voice in support of anti-Muslim groups hate groups. In 2016, she at a conference organized by the hate group ACT for America (ACT), an organization whose founder, Brigitte Gabriel, has said an observant Muslim 鈥渃annot be a loyal citizen of the United States.鈥� Raza has also a group called 聽Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights & Freedoms with Valerie Price, who heads ACT鈥檚 sister organization, ACT for Canada. Raza is listed on ACT Canada's website as a , along with other anti-Muslim figures such as Clare Lopez and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, an Austrian activist convicted of hate speech against Muslims.

Price claims her ACT chapter works to educate Canadian citizens 鈥渁bout the triumphalist brand of Islam that seeks to erode our cherished western principles of free speech and equality with the goal of eventual Islamic supremacy in the West.鈥� In an online newsletter to supporters, Price praised Raza鈥檚 2014 blog post, , 鈥淩ight on Raheel!鈥�

The group Raza works most closely with is the Clarion Project, formerly known as the Clarion Fund, an organization that produces materials claiming 鈥淩adical Islam鈥� is on a mission to take over the West.

Clarion is most known for producing and distributing documentary films with an anti-Muslim slant. The organization first made national headlines in 2008 when it distributed its 2005 film Obsession: Radical Islam鈥檚 War Against the West to 28 million voters in 14 battleground states during the presidential election. The film commentary from anti-Muslim figures like Walid Shoebat, Daniel Pipes, and Steve Emerson, and pushes the narrative that Muslims are bent on global conquest.

One of the main faces of the Clarion Project is Ryan Mauro, the group鈥檚 national security analyst. Mauro is a frequent guest on conservative news outlets like Fox News. He is also active on the anti-Muslim speaking circuit. During his appearances, Mauro regularly pushes anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. He has previously Muslims in the U.S. are working to 鈥渃reate enclaves where they can begin gradually implementing Sharia law.鈥� Mauro has a history of promoting the myth of Muslim-only 鈥渘o-go zones鈥� in Europe and has such areas are starting to take root in the U.S.

颁濒补谤颈辞苍鈥檚 has included notorious anti-Muslim figures like Frank Gaffney, Clare Lopez and Daniel Pipes. Walid Phares, another anti-Muslim spokesperson, was also listed as a board member in 2013. According to , Phares spent the 1980s indoctrinating violent Christian extremists during Lebanon鈥檚 brutal civil war.

Yet despite all of this damning information, Raza鈥檚 response to the concerns about her links to anti-Muslim hate in an interview with the Twin Cities Pioneer Press was to act dumbfounded. She said, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know where they got their information,鈥� and went on to claim, 鈥淲hat I do is the opposite.鈥�

Far from the 鈥渞eformist鈥� and 鈥減rogressive鈥� individual she claims to be, Raza鈥檚 extensive history of anti-Muslim statements and open ties to hate groups make her fundamentally undemocratic. She is one of the least appropriate individuals to inform the decisions of an institution that is meant to be inclusive to as many people as possible irrespective of their backgrounds, including what faith they may profess.聽