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Fifteen years ago, on March 7, 2010, Michigan Live (which bills itself as “Michigan’s #1 News Source”) ran an article by one Kim Schneider about the Islamization of Dearborn, Michigan, which she described as boasting “one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East.”
Schneider wasn’t critical of this development; she was celebratory. Thanks to Dearborn’s Muslims, she proclaimed, the city was awash in “enticing shops, restaurants and bakeries that feature cases stacked high with baklava and fresh pitas” – not to mention “flatbread…made fresh to order in a roaring brick oven,” “platters overflow[ing] with creamy baby ghanoush, shawarma and kabobs,” and “pistachio and honey treats in various combinations and gorgeous pastries.” At the places selling these delicacies, observed Schneider with palpable delight, there were more signs in Arabic than in English. What a wonderfully exotic adventure – and in Michigan, of all places!
Schneider went on to promote Dearborn’s Arab American National Museum, which has “a soaring dome decorated with Arabic calligraphy,” and which, she wrote, seeks “to bring the voices and faces of Arab Americans to mainstream audiences and thereby dispel misconceptions about Arab Americans and other immigrant groups.” One of the exhibits at the museum, noted Schneider, highlighted “the Arab heritage of many well-known political and entertainment figures,” including Ralph Nader, Donna Shalala, Casey Kasem, and Helen Thomas, the longtime dean of the White House press corps. (One wonders if the exhibit was changed when Thomas, less than two months after Schneider’s article appeared, was forced to quit her job with the Hearst newspapers after saying that Israeli Jews should go “home” to Poland and Germany.)
Another exhibit at the museum juxtaposed two sets of images of Arabs. One set consisted of stills from movies and TV shows in which Arabs were shown committing acts of violence; the other contained “photos of everyday Arab Americans,” including “babies” and “grandmothers.” The implicit argument here was that the violence was an ugly and baseless stereotype. To be sure, Schneider did feel obliged to acknowledge that a terrorist attack had recently been committed in the skies over the Detroit area: on Christmas Day 2009. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian member of al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula (AQAP) who was a passenger on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam, had attempted to explode the plane to bits as it prepared to land in Detroit. But rather than acknowledge the seriousness of jihadism and explain its centrality to Islam, the museum responded to the attack by “providing the back story of people of Yemen descent.” Obviously Schneider found this commendable.
Schneider also hailed the Islamic Center of America, which, she wrote, “welcomes anyone willing to learn about Islam and Muslims.” She and friend, she added, “were swept inside by a force of kindness as we stood outside,” and upon entering they were “greeted…warmly” by a guide who offered “a mini-sermon about how Abraham was the father of us all” before helping them fold “the provided scarves we were required to wear over our hair” – a symbol of subordination to men, needless to say, but Schneider didn’t say so.
The piece concluded with some words from the guide: “‘This is your house, too,’ he says. ‘This is not just our house.’ Schneider read those words as a welcome. In fact they were a warning. When Islam moves into new territory, the idea isn’t to live and let live. Islam is a faith of conquest whose adherents have been taught to regard infidel lands as “the House of War.” They’ve learned from the Koran that it’s their job to play nice with the infidels until their numbers reach a certain point – meanwhile crying “Islamophobia!” and “freedom of religion!” whenever anyone breathes a discouraging word about Islam – and thereafter to gradually turn up the pressure, making it clear that Muslims can’t coexist peacefully with infidels until the latter have either converted, submitted, or been unceremoniously butchered.
Fifteen years after Schneider’s billet doux to Islam, Dearborn has more Muslims than ever. And they’ve clearly dropped a lot of the cozy surface stuff that made Schneider so starry-eyed. As I wrote a couple of months ago, “just over half of the city’s population [is] of North African or Middle Eastern ancestry” – a statistic that (so far) no other municipality in no city can match. At a City Council meeting in September, Dearborn’s mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, reacted to a local Christian minister’s politely expressed concern about the renaming of two intersections in honor of a terrorist supporter by calling the minister a racist and telling him: “Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here.” (Later, after realizing that he’d let the mask slip a bit too much a bit too early, the mayor apologized for his remark, saying – in an echo of the Islamic Center’s guide – that everyone is welcome in Dearborn.)
Mayor Hammond made headlines again earlier this month, when he dismissed complaints about mosques in Dearborn being allowed to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer at almost all hours of the day and night. On November 19, Mark Tapson reported on a longtime Dearborn resident who lives a quarter-mile from a mosque but who can still hear its call to prayer from inside her house, “sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m.” and as late as 10 p.m. She and other complainants have been dismissed by Hammond, who predictably cites “our constitutional rights to freedom of religion.” Of course Islam only cares about “constitutional rights” until it’s in a position to overthrow the Constitution and replace it with sharia.
On November 18, there was more news from Dearborn. Protesters, reported Niraj Warikoo of the Detroit Free Press, “argued and scuffled” in the city’s streets, “debating religion and immigration.” The Free Press stated that there were three rallies. One of them was organized by “liberal groups supportive of Dearborn and Muslims,” some of whom “held Palestinian flags” (nothing says “liberal” like a Palestinian flag), and who were lent support by one Hussein Dabajeh, who drove a truck on the side of which an electronic display flashed such messages as: “Welcome to Dearborn, an all-American city,” “Welcome to Dearborn, where all faiths live together,” and “Dearborn, the city of coexistence.” A second group featured “anti-Islam protesters led by [Jack] Lang, who was charged in the Jan. 6 protests in Washington, DC, and later pardoned by President Donald Trump” (translation: bad guy).
A third group was led by Anthony Hudson, a candidate for the GOP nomination for governor. Hudson deserves a paragraph of his own. A truck driver who’s in the habit of wearing cowboy hats, he’d initially planned to protest against the Islamic takeover of Dearborn, but according to the Free Press “had a change of heart after spending four days last week in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, visiting mosques and Muslim leaders….Hudson said he previously thought there was a ‘Muslim takeover’ in Dearborn with sharia, Islamic law, being enforced, but after his visit to four mosques and several businesses, realized that’s not happening.”
What happened to change Hudson’s mind? He told the Free Press that during his Dearborn visit “I got hugs, I got handshakes….I had a lot of men come up to me and say it was nice to meet me.” An article in the Detroit Metro Times quoted Hudson as telling Michiganders that they’d “all been lied to with the propaganda that’s going on about Dearborn, Michigan. I can tell you with absolute faith that everything you’ve been told or taught about Dearborn is a complete fabrication of the truth. Dearborn is a very quiet community. There is a lot of hospitality. I’ve been extremely welcomed here.” The Metro Times article followed this quotation by stating that “Hudson then called this reporter a ‘fucking lesbian’ and used a homophobic slur.” Let’s hope that the Michigan GOP picks a better gubernatorial candidate than this buffoon.
We’ve already seen how good Michigan Live was, fifteen years ago, at promoting Islam. It’s only gotten better since. Its report on the latest Dearborn protests was written by one Fuad Shalhout, who in March of this year wrote for Michigan Live about what Ramadan means to him: “From the moment I wake for suhoor (meal before dawn) in the quiet of the early morning, I feel a sense of peace settle over me….I silently pray for my family’s health, asking for their strength, happiness, and protection.” Unsurprisingly, Shalhout’s article about the recent events in Dearborn centered on lengthy quotes from two supposedly ordinary Muslims. The first, Kelly Elias, wanted readers to know that “I’m from the God of love. I don’t want to hurt anybody….We need to work together and be just. Love each other. We don’t need any problems. Anybody with hate.” Love, love, love! Who could possibly criticize such a beautiful faith?
Shalhout’s other Muslim source, Karrar Haidar, said that “we are a religion of peace and we can coexist as the Abrahamic religions have coexisted in previous times….If they really do believe Sharia is the jurisdiction here in Dearborn, when you walk in, you see a monument in regards of Maryam and Prophet Jesus.” Of course, Islam has “coexisted” in the past with Christianity and Judaism exclusively on its own terms, with adherents of the latter two faiths compelled to accept subordinate social roles and to pay jizya, a tax on non-Muslims that is prescribed in the Koran (9:29). As for “Maryam” and “Prophet Jesus,” these are, needless to say, the Koranic versions of Christianity’s Mary and Jesus, the latter of whom Islam considers not a divinity but merely as a minor prophet, subsidiary to Muhammed.
While Shalhout and other members of Michigan’s mainstream media strove to depict Dearborn’s Muslims as virtuous souls and their critics as bigots, a somewhat different story was being told on X. Lang, for example, wrote: “Today we showed THE WORLD just how VIOLENT and disgusting the Muslim Stronghold of Dearborn TRULY IS!!” He added that he had been “assaulted dozens of times.” Cam Higby, a Seattle-based independent journalist, told a November 18 meeting of Dearborn’s City Council that he’d been “peppersprayed by protesters,” his phone “smashed,” and his microphone receiver stolen by a masked member of the Muslim contingent – and that when he’d reported these crimes to a police officer, the cop, obviously not wanting to arrest the culprit, refused to be of help, or even to give Higby his name and badge number. Adding that he’d been “followed by a drone,” by “vehicles” and by “individuals on foot,” Higby protested that “I shouldn’t feel like a dhimmi in my country. That what I feel like in Dearborn, Michigan!” And Andy Ngo reported that a masked member of By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), an Antifa group, had declared at the same City Council meeting that it was necessary, in Ngo’s paraphrase, “to violently counter those who blaspheme against Islam.”
Before I close, one more tidbit from Michigan Live. It’s not about Dearborn, but about another Muslim-heavy city in the Detroit area. Published on March 14 of this year, it’s by Fuad Shalhout, and it’s entitled “At Flint Islamic Center, Ramadan is a time of community and connection.” The piece is the kind of vapid piece of pro-Islam hype that no self-respecting American media outlet would ever publish about Christianity or Judaism. Shalhout paints a picture of a “busy” evening at the Flint Islamic Center: “Volunteers arrange plates of dates and bottles of water on long tables.” Families exchange “handshakes and hugs.” Some “pray quietly.” Children “sit cross-legged on the beige carpet, waiting for the call to prayer.” After the call sounds, men and women go to “separate banquet halls for dinner.” You know, just like Jim Crow, only for sexes, not races. Yet Shalhout isn’t about to criticize this practice, which, he writes, “follows Islamic traditions of modesty and personal comfort, allowing men and women to eat and socialize freely within their respective spaces.”
And so on. Bottom line: “the mosque is not just a place to pray—it’s a place to be with others and feel part of a community.” Shalhout quotes an Egyptian member of the congregation who speaks of the feeling of “togetherness” he gets at the mosque. Yes, real togetherness – men over here, women way over there. Hey, Michigan Live – great job of letting yourselves be taken over by Islamic apologists, even as much of your state is being subjected to the same kind of takeover.
When Muslims gain the majority, everybody not them is in trouble. Try to build a church in Dearborn. See if there will be ‘difficulties’…….
They don’t need a majority. They only need the democrat party to start catering to them to gain power.
Muslims aren’t stupid. They see how the democrats cater to illegal aliens who aren’t even American citizens! Illegal aliens have all but taken over the democrat party.
The dems do all but line up to kiss their asses. The interesting and astounding part is the fact that black democrats have thrown their own people under a bus for the sake of catering to illegal aliens.
All the NON-muslims in Michigan have to do is read about what is going on in western Europe between islamic migrants and the natives. Civil wars are inevitable.
“….All the NON-muslims in Michigan have to do is read…..”
You’re asking a lot How many people bother to read these days? Print magazines and news rags are disappearing and with the advent of ChatGPT, less and less people are bothering to read at all. The net effect is that people are becoming less literate.
Personally, I think it is an intended consequence of indoctrination and mis-education that has become the hallmark of the American education system. Ignorant and semi-Illiterate people will believe just about anything and can be convinced of just about anything.
That’s a boon for democrats and their far left brethren. It assures them a ready made voting base.
But don’t mind me. I’m an avowed cynic who sees reality for what it is. Not what I want or wish or think it should be. Life is hard and brutal and far to short to entertain such fantasies.
All,
The physical church is in their minds low hanging fruit; they’re after Christ.
allah is NOT the god of Abraham…
satanic worshiping muslims claim…
“they share the same God”
This is the #1 greatest deception in Islam…
It IS a blatant lie… allah is a pagan moon god… While muhammad’s family worshiped several false gods back in the days, muhammad settled just on this one.
islam is satanic !!!
The Arabs were polytheists until Mohammad came along and whittled the number of gods they worshiped down to one: Allah, the god of the moon. It’s no small matter that almost all Islamic countries uses the crescent moon as a symbol in on fashion or another.
In that part of the world, the moon appears unusually large in the sky when it’s near the horizon. It has to do with how the human brain perceives the size of objects that are nearer or farther away, The human brain doesn’t know that the Moon’s distance from the earth doesn’t change (the change is negligible) that much no matter where it is in the sky on a given night. Unfortunately, there is no definitive scientific explanation for why this is so.
This is what happens when the incurably stupid Democrats allow those who want to kill them into their states.
George Bush and his fellow neocon travelers allowed them in also.
On the contrary, there is a cure for stupid and you know what that cure is. The same cure that “cures” recalcitrant criminal behavior. We just haven’t gotten frustrated enough and pushed to our wits end to work up the gumption to apply the “cure” and solve our problem[s].
Majority Muslim = One day, no Saturday people. The next, no Sunday people.
–“When Islam moves into new territory, the idea isn’t to live and let live.”
That is spot on. As I’ve written in comments at FPM before, no so-called religion whose precepts violate the golden rule should be legally considered a religion. That should be a basic litmus test to see whether religious freedoms should apply. Clearly religious freedoms should not apply to Islam and Islam should not be legally considered a religion under U.S. law.
Excellent article in almost every respect. I have to say though that there is really no problem with separate seating for men and women. I’m not saying that Islam respects women. I don’t think that Islam respects women, or men. .Judaism, on the other hand, does respect both men and women. We also do have a certain amount of separation of the sexes, for instance separate seating at services. There is no problem with that. Racial differences are utterly trivial and there should never be separate seating based on race. That is just plain evil. The difference between men and women, however, is not trivial, but is rather profound.
In the history of Islam there are only three ways for non-Muslims to respond:
1. Conversion
2. Dimmihitude. Pay and be second class.
3. Death.
The fourth way for non-Muslims to respond is the Vlad Tepes way: impale them all on spikes and laugh in their faces.
But, but, but, there is no coercion in islam………………………………………………..
Fact:
If a foreigner is in your country and demands that you accept their culture as your culture and change your religious beliefs to their religious beliefs, that person is not an immigrant; that person is an invader.
America is being invaded and will still won’t acknowledge it.
Driving up I-75 to Detroit out of nowhere in farm country there was a large mosque. The sign read, “The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo”. Great. Thanks to the repeal of the National Origins Act in 1965 America is importing people whose religion compels them to wipe us out.
Names of the government people who we pay taxes to, to protect us, did away with Nation Origins Act 1965. They were paid to do that.
Where else are the dems going to get votes?
Ah, it brings up the 19th amendment, muslims are right about women!!
Madame DeFarge:
The short answer to your question is open the borders. That way democrat voters can walk right into the country without being inconvenienced or harassed by the border enforcement authorities.
If and when democrats regain power, I’m willing to bet that nearly 200 million people will line up at our southern border to enter out country. That’s 200 million more people that we the American tax payers are gonna have to support
And you know what? The Mexican cartels are going to get filthy stinkin rich charging those people for safe passage and kick a percentage of the profits back to the democrat party.
Invasion. Insurrrection. Izzzlum. duh. Rx: GBU.
That’s a problem that can be easily solved if we’re up to the task and don’t go all wobbly and start acting like timid p***ies.
The day is coming when America’s future will be determined by not what we say but what we do. For now, we’re all talk and look what that has done for us. Or should I say, to us.
Nov 27, 2023An analysis of 2,312 mosques once featuring Islamic architecture shows that three-quarters have been modified or destroyed since 2018. For some activists, these changes reflect a broader suppression of Islamic culture. “This is the start of the end of Islam in China,” says Ma Ju, China took care of this problem.
Great article. The first three paragraphs I thought I was reading something by Naomi Wolfe of yore. LOL.
It’s the eleventh hour for America, but cities across the country still don’t get it. Time for AMERICANS to resist the takeover and get out on the streets to be HEARD.
It is utterly unordinary to find women like Schneider gone gaga over diversity provided by cultures out of the ordinary — it is to have one’s critical faculties and situational awareness paralyzed by foods, language, symbolism, art and the always mentioned “call to prayer”. Somehow overlooked is its Seventh century undercurrents.
There was a time I had a number of Muslim acquaintances; and, being at least interested in the Middle East I purchased a used two volume set of Charles Doughty’s “Travels in Arabia Deserta” in a bookstore. It’s been forty years since I spent a good portion of a summer reading that tome, but what has stuck with me is the entire book containing one instance after another of “Let’s kill the infidel” wherever Doughty traveled.
utterly ordinary is what I meant to say…
NYC will be the next to fall to Islam, but no worries, they are peaceful and tolerant people. Nobody has been able to ascertain who they are peaceful towards and what they are tolerant of, but they swear to the pedophile Allah that they are.
The vast majority of Arabic speakers who immigrated here throughout the twentieth century were Christian Arabs, who had no trouble assimilating and being accepted into mainstream America. I wonder how the museum in Dearborn showcases this.
This is a beautifully written insightful article. I am uplifted by it ad very grateful for it!!
The city of Dearborn is obviously in the State of Michigan. Just as obvious is the Michigan is one of the States that compose the United States of America.
The point is that those Muslim city officials of Dearborn need to and should acknowledge that the law of the land in the United States is the US Constitution. Not Sharia. For this is America and this city is not some foreign Islamic country’
As the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he declared in a speech “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is only room here for only hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
The Muslim controlled city of Dearborn which resulted that city becoming a Islamic law infested city, for the most part , is major part of the Muslim scheme is known as the “Stealth jihad” part of it is the technique which is practiced by Muslims who are also stealth jihadists to infiltrate America using lies and deception ,Taqiyya, for the advancement of Islam with its Sharia.
That Islamic city of Dearborn, Michigan is an example of the stealth jihad in the United States.
This Muslim stealth jihadist scheme for achieving the goal of achieving power for Islam along with its Sharia in the United States is, sometimes, subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this , in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads, “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
Actually, Islam is a religion. To be more specific Islam is a political religion.
To give to example only one example would be that stealth jihadists Sharia controlled and infested city of Dearborn, Michigan further reveals that Islam is truly a political centered religion. That fact, about Islam is something that most Americans seen not be aware of.
The stealth jihadists, by “hook or by crook,” mostly by “crook” with much effort are striving to gain political office in the Western nations in the stealth jihad for the advancement of Islam with its Sharia in the United States as well as in other Western governments.
Furthermore, one misconception that many Westerners have is that of the tern used in the West, which is “political Islam.” That term is nonsensical and redundant as well as unknown in the Islamic world.
Therefore, it needs to be made clear as to why that Western term is nonsensical and redundant. As explained by two statements.
First, as for that term being nonsensical one devout Muslim who, truly, proclaimed “Islam is Islam.”
Second. as for that term being redundant, has been well explained by none other Ayatollah Khomeini who declared” All Islam is politics.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 332
Americans should be aware of those stealth jihad- minded Muslims who are living in the United States ,and attempt to have Sharia law enacted in this country An in the American city of Dearborn , Michigan .
Those facts that this is the United States, and has something that is far better than Sharia law. It’s the US Constitution. This is America, not Saudi Arabia or Iran.
As the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he declared in a speech “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is only room here for only hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Boycott Dearborn Next Summer a total Boycott of Dearborn
Who let all these Muslims into this country, and what did they expect would happen when they did?
There is a very good video about what Muslims have done to Dearborn called Make Dearborn American Again by Angela Rose. You can see an excerpt of the video at https://getinsight.pro/schools/immigration.htm#Dearborn
So will the residents be awake at 5:00 am by Islam Call to Prayer or have their streets block by crowd of Muslims facing mecca?
Mosques aren’t “community centers.” Neither are they merely places of worship. They’re Muslim ways of marking turf every bit as much as gangs “tagging” buildings.