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The Wall Street Journal did everyone a service Friday by publishing an op-ed entitled “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital: Imams and politicians in the Michigan city side with Hamas against Israel and Iran against the U.S.” This was an eyebrow-raising exposition by Steven Stalinsky of the indispensable Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) of how numerous Islamic leaders and other public figures in Dearborn have openly supported Hamas, which the State Department still officially considers to be a jihad terror group. Instead, however, of concern about open support for terror in Dearborn, the article has given rise to concerns — expressed even by the Biden regime — about “Islamophobia.”
The whole incident has been an illustration of how stigmatized honest discussion about the jihad threat has become in the U.S. today, after well over twenty years of relentless propaganda from government and law enforcement officials, as well as from the establishment media, about how such discussion is an unacceptable manifestation of hate. Stalinsky himself, after the firestorm began, was put into the unenviable position of having to insist, “Nothing in my article was written to instigate any sort of hate.”
Indeed, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any hate in the article. It was just all coming from the other side. Stalinsky’s article notes that “a local headline describing an Oct. 10 event at the Ford Performing Arts Center read ‘Michigan rally cheers Hamas attack.’” He shows Imam Imran Salha of the Islamic Center of Detroit in Dearborn calling for the “demise” of Israel, which, if it ever happened, would result in the murders of millions of Israelis.
Stalinsky also points out that another Dearborn-area imam, Usama Abdulghani, “called Oct. 7 ‘one of the days of Allah’ and a ‘miracle come true.’ He described the attackers as ‘honorable.’ He said they were ‘lions’ defending ‘the entire nation of Muhammad the messenger.’” Also, “the Islamic Center of America, a leading Dearborn mosque, held a memorial service on Dec. 30 for a Hezbollah operative killed in an Israeli airstrike.
The Hadi Institute, which runs an Islamic Montessori school and bills itself as a youth community center, held a “Commemoration of the Martyrs” on Jan. 5. This event honored Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, leader of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.” All this and more, Stalinsky says, makes for “a moment for counterterrorism officials to be concerned.”
There is, however, no indication that they are. The Journal’s article has enraged city officials, not because the city is a hotbed of support for jihad violence, but because it has been exposed as such. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, his most self-righteous victimhood mode fully activated, announced Saturday: “Effective immediately – Dearborn police will ramp up its presence across all places of worship and major infrastructure points. This is a direct result of the inflammatory @WSJ opinion piece that has led to an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting the city of Dearborn. Stay vigilant.”
This was pure grandstanding. There had been no threats to any place in Dearborn; if there had been, Hammoud certainly would have said so. He was simply indulging in the left’s tried-and-true propaganda technique of equating dissident speech with violence and treating it as incitement (while steadfastly ignoring actual calls for violence and real attacks committed by leftists).
And if any leftists are claiming victimhood and accusing their opponents of “hate speech,” Old Joe Biden can’t be far away. The leftist wonk who runs his X account declared on Sunday, “Americans know that blaming a group of people based on the words of a small few is wrong. That’s exactly what can lead to Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, and it shouldn’t happen to the residents of Dearborn – or any American town. We must continue to condemn hate in all forms.”
Whoever was putting this unctuous and hypocritical twaddle into hateful Old Joe’s mouth didn’t mention the WSJ article, but that was the only instance of “Islamophobia” the noble people of Dearborn are dealing with, so his intention was unmistakable. It’s unusual for the president of the United States, even a figurehead like Old Joe, to comment on a newspaper article that has nothing to do with himself or his policies, but the Biden regime is deeply worried about the defection of the Muslim bloc from the left’s coalition over the regime’s putative support for Israel. And so Old Joe and his henchmen are playing the “Islamophobia” card wherever and whenever they can.
Amid all this controversy, one question remains unanswered and totally ignored: is Dearborn really America’s jihad capital? Should its mayor be more concerned about that than about clamping down on criticism? The consequences of ignoring that question, after all, could be explosive.
When will Dearborn experience their first day of rage? Maybe in the Fall, around election time; a perfect time for the left to cause chaos.
“Settlement”, treaty, and jihad are the three methods of Islamic advancement for that dangerous superstition’s violent history. Founded by a known killer,, its march continues against the naive and the cowardly.
How many people out there see what America has become. It is not the America I grew up with/in. The level of hate and ignorance is beyond belief.
Indeed. The America we grew up in is but a mere memory. And yet – surely we shall see even more hate and ignorance that make the present moment something to long for as a place we would return to.
I don’t have any hope we will turn about and return to a nation that defined (better than ever before) E pluribus unum. I do, instead expect to see an ever more scene like we see in the photo above.
VOWG, I’m one of those people you described. I grew up in the US in the 50’s and 60’s. Life in our country at that time was almost idyllic. Now it’s a tragedy–we are losing the most precious freedoms that our fore-fathers fought and died for. We have made too many bad decisions.
My husband and I took an early retirement 20 years ago and have been living in rural France since then. I don’t know whether we will ever go back to the US.
All replies encouraging showing fortunately there is intelligent life out there. Most Jewish institutions here and Europe pay large sums for internal and external security.. MEMRI issued an excellent rebuttal to Whitmer/Biden etc. I also sent notes to both, my senators and media.
Depraved psychopathic murderous Islam has been the scourge of humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
WHEN, NOT IF, the Jihadist Sleeper Cells awaken, America will be set on FIRE which will be unstoppable! Profiling… hate crime! Close down Mosques? Round up all Muslims and tens of thousands of their American supporters?
Domestic Terrorists to the Left are White Supremacists and they’d had conferences to promote that line. The DOJ and FBI busy investigating Catholics,,, yes they strap bombs to blow up bus stations, parties, restaurants, innocents. Those evil parents at school board meetings.
This alone PROVES that the DOJ, FBI, DHS, CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE, side with the Jihadists who will label them infidels too no matter how much they beg on their hands and knees that they support Jihad against America, too!
I live in the Detroit area. Both local newspapers had articles and editorial denunciations of the WSJ piece, and local leaders chimed in on the subject. I noticed that no one said that the cited facts were wrong or that the statements quoted had not been made.
A week or so after October 7 one of the papers had an article on steps that were being taken by various Jewish institutions for security. The Jewish Community Council engaged a security firm and various synagogues and other groups were making arrangements.
Dearborn’s mayor was asked what measures he was taking to secure Islamic institutions. None, he said, there was no perceived need. Do tell.
During the 1940s Detroit (Henry Ford and Father Coghlin), Minneapolis (Charles Lindbergh) and Boston (Joe Kennedy) were considered the most antisemitic cities in America. Noe these same cities are home to Claudine Gay, Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, Rashida Tlaib and Abdullah Hammond. How little has changed.
Yep, all they bitched about was the headline. They couldn’t say anything about the article because it’s true. I live in the Detroit area too.
Arabs is Arabs wherever they’re found. Add to that the inspiration of Dearborn’s most notorious historical figure, Henry Ford. Nuke Dearborn now.
When will the people come to the understanding of several facts, 1. islam does not give a damn about the palestinians, proven by the fact none want palestinian refugees, this is just an0ther excuse by them to riot. 2. Islam is not compatible with a civilized society, left wing loons that protest for palestine are too stupid to see the fact that LGBTQ and the femanazi women’s groups would be killed or stoned to death by the very people they claim to support, that is called suicide by any other name, given that fact I do not support either group, I am simply stating the facts 3.. The old one that is/has always been true, not all muslims are terrorists, BUT almost ALL TERRORISTS are muslims. With that said, the attempt by Isreal to eliminate all palestinian people is not right either.
Great until you said Israel is attempting to eliminate “all Palestinian people”. Apparently you have not been keeping up with current events. Even after the sadistic October 7th attacks, the IDF has employed great efforts to cut so-called civilian losses.
The question of who are “civilians” could be a fair inquiry. Were the random men who worked over in Israel and were thought to be trusted friends of the Israelis, yet came to kill them brutally, we they “civilians” ?
Were the crowds in the streets who took the opportunity to spit and beat the corpse of the young woman paraded down the streets of Gaza in the back of a truck “civilians”?
Are the brainwashed children who receive training and indoctrination to hate and kill Jews “civilians”?
Yet, despite all evidence to the contrary, the IDF is treating the general population as non-combatant civilians. Perhaps you have seen images of IDF personnel watching over Arab children while Hamas gunmen spray bullets randomly down the streets of a neighborhood.
Frankly, I stand by the position there are no “Palestinians” in the first place. Gaza should, to produce a safe Israel, be Hamas free. Should that prove insufficient, it should be Arab free.
The only way Israel can be a safe place to live is to move all Arabs/Muslims out of Gaza and Juda and Samaria, and turn Iran’s nuclear facilities into sand. That won’t happen because people like Biden and Blinken are traitors so we can expect more October 7th Simchat massacres into the next century, including of course very soon in the United States.
What “attempt by Isreal (sic) to eliminate all palestinian people”?
Good job Michigan. Now, which large, blue city is dying to be next?
Other Muslim countries want to help Palestinians about as much as American Democrats want to solve our country’s social and economic problems.
I will say to you and the others who may take exception with what I said, there are mountains of bullshit coming from both sides, first and foremost, the idea that Israel was caught of guard on Oct 7 is a joke, there is more to this story than people are being told, do not tell me they would not sacrifice their own people to create an excuse for this war, I remind you of our 9/11 YOUR fnig US government was involved up to their slimy eye balls.
Blaming the victim, terrorist sympathizer/collaborator.
Remember what many said in Congress, “diversity is our strength.” I feel so safe now that the Muslims are here. It will take a minute or two to stop laughing.
Is it presumptuous to assume America’s Favorite Pick-Up Truck (ie: the Ford F150), is now manufactured by unhinged and lunatic American Jihadi’s …. ???