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The Wall Street Journal opinion section drew a pile of angry tweets when it ran an article by Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute. They fixated on the headline and didn’t seem to read the article.
The headline was “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.” The subhead here merely described the article’s contents, that the city’s Muslim leaders and political leaders sided against Israel and America.
The angry response has to be the words “jihad capital.” Somehow, you can’t equate Hamas and jihad? You can’t equate the slaughter on Oct. 7 with jihad?
On Oct. 10, Imam Imran Salha of Dearborn’s Islamic Center of Detroit told a rally crowd that Israel’s past actions have put “fire in our hearts that will burn that state” — Israel — “until its demise.”
On Oct. 14, Imam Usama Abdulghani called Oct. 7 “one of the days of God” and a “miracle come true.” He described the attackers as “honorable” and called them “lions” defending “the entire nation of Muhammad the messenger.”
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, where Imam Abdulghani expressed his “warmest congratulations” to “our very special leader, Imam Khamenei,” the leader of Iran, the backer of Hamas and Hezbollah.
But don’t call Dearborn a “jihad capital.”
No one has challenged these facts. But ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan tweeted, “The same rightwing outlets who warn of rising antisemitism (and, yes, antisemitism is on the rise) have no problem pushing horrendous Islamophobia & anti-Arab bigotry.”
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik, the taxpayer-funded Murdoch basher, retweeted Joseph Azam, who was an executive at News Corp for two whole years. Azam ranted: “Years ago, after I left News Corp and spoke to @NPR @davidfolkenflik re: the racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia running rampant across Murdoch assets I described the @WSJ opinion pages as the ignorant hatemongering you see in the @nypost but dressed in a tuxedo. I stand by that.”
You won’t be surprised that Azam donated $250 to Kamala Harris while he worked for Murdoch, and has since donated thousands to Joe Biden, the Democratic National Committee and Aisha Wahab, a California Democrat state senator hailed as the local Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
President Biden tweeted indirectly: “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.”
This from the guy who called the Republicans “Jim Crow 2.0.”
In the Feb. 6 White House press briefing, ABC’s Selina Wang tossed a Wiffle ball to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “What’s the White House’s reaction to that controversial Wall Street Journal op-ed?” Jean-Pierre called the article “dangerous” and “unacceptable” and stated, “We will stand with the people of Dearborn on this issue.”
The comedy in that is that many Muslims in Dearborn call the president “Genocide Joe,” but ABC won’t ask about that. The mayor of Dearborn and the imams of Dearborn are supported by the people of Dearborn. The term “jihad capital” doesn’t imply that every resident of Dearborn is a jihadi. It implies it’s a hot spot for jihadism.
Abdullah Hammoud, the Democrat mayor of Dearborn, attended a Nov. 29 pro-Palestinian rally and proclaimed Dearborn “the city of resistance.” So, isn’t that blurring all the city’s people into one geopolitical or religious camp?
That the singleton palliative for the presence of Islam is the absence of Islam is just as true in 2024 as it was in 1053.
That this palliative ultimately must be militarily accomplished has not changed. NATO can start with throwing the Occupiers out of Constantinople. The former Christendom is a large area and it is ours.
Anyone in America who hates America should leave or be removed.
After 9-11, Bush should have invoked the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952, banning Muslim immigration. Actually, Clinton should have have done so after the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
.. Missed opportunities, the consequences of which have not fully come to fruition.
The bombing of the Marine barracks took, what?, 200+ lives.
Is not he birth of the Marine Corps. attributed to the Barbary pirates?
DC now wants this crown.
From the Left’s perspective, Hamas is just another ordinary political organization, harmless as any neighborhood watch group.
Long memories and seeking Revenge?
There is nothing bigoted about Islamophobia. Anyone who doesn’t have it is not up on history or current events.
The only way to get over it is isolation of the Islamists. Deport, Imprison, and execute for their crimes. Lean very hard on their “cultural peculiarities”.
All cultures are not equal.
Of course, “Islamophobia” is defined as “any criticism of Islam or Muslims, no matter how mild or factual.”
I live in the Detroit area and yes, both local newspapers and a couple of on-line news sources were all over this, denouncing the supposed Islamophobia and hate and condemning the WSJ for publishing the article in the first place.
I tried to find someone who denied the events related took place, or the quotations were not real, or were taken out of context. I couldn’t find any.
The fact that Mohammed was not a prophet, but was channelling a demon, also means that Christian intercessors can set limits on Islam. It isn’t just a political ideology – there is spiritual power there – but the spirit behind Islam is nowhere near as great as God. God is looking for people who will stand in the gap. Sometimes you will be able to link things that happen with your prayers; sometimes not. For maximum effectiveness, you need to discern God’s agenda and pray for the issues that He lays on your heart. Islam is not unstoppable.
Islam is as much a political movement (supremacy doctrine and theocracy) as a religion. Jihad is a mandated activity for believers. Though concentrated regions display the reality, overall US Muslims are only at 1% of the population. Looking at the UK and continental Europe one sees the results of Islamic confidence and aggression with relatively low population thresholds (5 to 10%). Maintaining a liberal democracy while preventing the historically deterministic certainty of Islamic dominance is the west’s existential conundrum. Without “interference” of some kind, demographics alone will ensure it. Islamophobia is just another invented term for the justification for eliminating free speech in favour of blasphemy laws. There is no separation of religion and state under Islam.
Islam won’t need massive numbers of migrants to run up its numbers in the US. Our colleges and universities are turning out “believers in waiting” as we speak. If every one of the 1% of muslims in America poured into the streets to demonstrate they wouldn’t equal the size of the crowds we have been seeing in our major cities.