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The alarming scene that unfolded recently in Dearborn, Mich., with Muslim protesters chanting “Death to America,” has resulted in some fallout for the city’s mayor, Abdullah Hammoud. While Old Joe Biden and his henchmen are happily taking a wrecking ball to the former Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, they don’t go around telegraphing their intentions.
Their friends in Dearborn were a bit too forthright about what the ultimate goal of the policies that the left and their Islamic allies really are, so reassuring words had to be uttered and the public put back to sleep. Hammoud found, however, that at least some people had been jolted away much too rudely for that to be possible.
Hammoud entreated the world Monday not to believe its lying eyes, but to heed his soothing words instead. “Over the weekend,” he wrote, “video emerged of a rally in Dearborn where some attendees were chanting statements that were unacceptable and contrary to the heart of this city. We reject all inflammatory and violent statements made at the gathering.” That was a swell disavowal, but it was glaring that Hammoud said nothing about investigating the people involved.
Instead, the earnest young mayor continued, “Dearborn is a city of proud Americans; the hateful rhetoric heard on Friday does not reflect the opinion of the members of this community. The Dearborn community stands for peace and justice for all people. We are proud to call this city and this country home.” While he intended this to tamp down the controversy, it only ended up making matters worse, because Hammoud’s description of Dearborn diverged so widely from what is generally known about the city.
Back in February, the Wall Street Journal an op-ed noting that “a local headline describing an Oct. 10 event at the Ford Performing Arts Center read ‘Michigan rally cheers Hamas attack.’” It quoted Imam Imran Salha of the Islamic Center of Detroit in Dearborn calling for the “demise” of Israel. 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.’”
In response to all that and much more, Hammoud didn’t denounce the Hamas supporters and affirm his city’s rejection of jihad violence. Instead, he went into full victim mode, announcing that Dearborn police would “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.”
It’s understandable, in light of all this, that Hammoud’s new claim that Dearborn is just packed with “proud Americans” was received with extreme skepticism. Historian and journalist Daniel Greenfield responded by pointing out an uncomfortable fact: “you’ve taken part in rallies with terrorist supporters do you disavow Osama Siblani who called Hamas and Hezbollah ‘freedom fighters’?” Greenfield has noted that Siblani “had previously told the Washington Post that, ‘Mr. Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas, and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters’” and that Hammoud had appeared at rallies with Siblani.
you’ve taken part in rallies with terrorist supporters
do you disavow Osama Siblani who called Hamas and Hezbollah “freedom fighters”?
— Daniel Greenfield – “Hang Together or Separately” (@Sultanknish) April 9, 2024
An Israeli, Michael Elgort, quoted a lengthy statement from Hammoud on Oct. 8, 2023, and addressed the mayor: “This you justifying October 7 and saying Israel has it coming?… Your tweet is totally in line with the message you pretend to condemn now, so nah, this hateful rhetoric does reflect your opinion.”
This you justifying October 7 and saying Israel has it coming? Used loaded legal terms that are never applied to Israel as legal terms but as labels? Your tweet is totally in line with the message you pretend to condemn now, so nah, this hateful rhetoric does reflect your opinion pic.twitter.com/m5rUErJAjP
— Michael Elgort (@just_whatever) April 9, 2024
The popular X account LeftismForU responded in a similar vein: “Your history and your city’s constant explicit hatred for America/Western society, support for terrorism, and calls for violence against those who don’t conform to your radical and immoralistic [sic] views says otherwise. Another popular X writer, Alaskan Tequila, wrote: “Okay. You pretend to reject that hateful and violent rhetoric and we’ll pretend that we don’t know what taqiyya is.”
Educator and writer David Bashevkin observed acidly, “Weird I’ve never been to a rally for Israel that spontaneously broke out with chants calling for the death of America.”
It looks as if one bland X post from Abdullah Hammoud isn’t going to undo the damage that was done to Dearborn’s image last Friday. For two decades now, Americans who have been warning about Islam’s political, supremacist, and violent aspects have been demonized, vilified, and marginalized as “Islamophobes.” But Muslims such as those who were chanting “Death to America” in Dearborn last Friday just keep on proving them right.
If these folk hate America so much, why don’t they leave?
They never do. They just continue to defile our country. When ugly, anti-American little turd boys like Abdullah Hammoud become Mayors of major American cities, we know America is hosed. As if Alzheimer Joe and the Jihad Squad in Congress hadn’t told us that already.
Parole Sirhan Sirhan just long enough for him to put a bullet in Hammoud.
The basis of Islam is to bring all people on earth into Dar al-Islam, the abode of Islam – ruled by sharia, by conversion or conquest. Going back to countries that are already Islamic would not advance this divinely ordered cause. Staying and colonizing, e.g., the U.S., would.
Islam, when practiced by “good” (i.e. observant) Muslims, and Western Civilization, are fundamentally incompatible. And Islam is not about compromise. It is about dominance and submission. And when one submits, then one will have “peace.”
DEARBOEN MI IS IN PHASE 3……ISLAM’S GAME PLAN SINCE 622AD….IMMIGRATE = PHASE 1…POPULATE = PHASE 2…INTIMIDATE = PHASE 3…SUBJUGATE = PHASE 4 & GAME OVER….ISLAM WINS EVERY TIME STUPID & UNARMED PEOPLE PLAY THIS GAME
Dearborn needs to be jettisoned off the planet.
A few years ago a bunch of Christians tried to have a peaceful Christian march through the muslim city and were escorted out of town by the cops. In the same video a muslim was on film trying to explain how the grip of jihad was deep in Dearborn. He talked to several shop owners about their daily life ans all was well but when he brought up things being said at a mosque they clamed up and walked away.. Real hometown America. Gear up folks these people are just biding their time.
Seriously!!! This is happening in America!? Crickets
“Dearborn is a city of proud Americans; the hateful rhetoric heard on Friday does not reflect the opinion of the members of this community.”
Abdullah Hammoud is a terrible liar. But he is a great practitioner of taqquia. You don’t get elected in a Muslim run city if you don’t reflect the prevailing opinion of the inhabitants.
We will find out soon enough when the city finally explodes and degenerates into rabid Jew hatred and becomes an actual no go zone for Christians
If American law enforcement doesn’t react to this Muslim trash there will many of these no go zones sprouting up around the country
Telling lies to we infidels is a core value for these Muslim. Telling lies in our face is very acceptable to the Muslims of Dar al Islam that is at war with we of Dar al Harb..
In an America where the Democ-rat White House declared Easter Sunday to be Transgender Pride Day, street mobs in Dearborn, Michigan and elsewhere screaming “Death to America” may well be collections of “proud” Americans. Democ-rat Americans are demonic.
The recent activities in Dearborn are proof positive that an infestation of Muslims is worse than an infestation of bedbugs, and a lot harder to get rid of.
Spencer always writes with great clarity and integrity. Thank you again sir for this article. Another home run!!
I student taught at Dearborn High School in the spring of 1967. It was well supported by Ford Motor Company in its tax base and had a 95% college bound senior class. It was like teaching at a community college. A true dream for a student teacher.
One thing that was noted by the principal in a meeting of the social science staff…for the first time ever their SAT scores had dropped. This of course was several years in the making but back then there was no internet and it would have taken a team of researchers from a local university months to ferret out the potential causes such as a major demographic shift amounting to an influx of less committed populations to academics.
Perhaps this was a harbinger of now.
When a nation country society culture becomes depraved psychopathic … goes berserk …. such as America is now,
it is only a question of when, not whether, the Great Apocalypse strikes in full force and the entire society and nation
collapses into chaos oblivion.
My own opinion is that we is there already.
Depraved psychopathic berserk Islamic Dearborn, Michigan is proof positive.
Gaza was the trial baloon for a “two state” solution—Dearborn is the trial baloon for integrating moose-limbs into America—Oil & water…
We invite all Muslims to leave now before uou are expelled…because like Spain, once the people know what you intend you WILL be expelled.. you are not welcome here as equals….but as guests…and you must behave accordingly or go
How many of these ‘hate America’ were born elsewhere. Send them back to where they were born. Their children go with them.
No one who hates the US should be living here.
Muslims hating the land they live in, we could cope with – though it does raise the question of why they continue to endure such suffering. Muslims being determined to change the land they live into something we will hate, is another matter.
Mr. Mayor you should start looking for a new career. Forget about getting re-elected.
Sidekick to Karine Jean-Pierre, maybe?
Hey Pinhead where the Alahyah Tolbah Homeny is now where he c ant should DEATH TO THE GREAT SATAN since now he is with Satan along with all those Suicide Bombers who thought they were al going to be in Paradise with 1000 Virgins and all those who took the Hostages back in 1979
They have to stop banging those SWINE, from whom they were WHELPED.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL.