There are thousands of Muslims in Dearborn; why did only 100 show up for this? This is not the first time that attendance at a Muslim rally against terrorism has been decidedly underwhelming. Earlier this month, only 30 Muslims protested against the jihad massacres in Paris. In July 2015, a Muslim rally in Ireland against the Islamic State drew fifty people. In October 2014 in Houston, a rally against the Islamic State organized by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) drew the grand total of ten people. In August 2013 in Boston, about 25 Muslims rallied against “misperceptions” that Islam was violent. About the same number showed up in June 2013 at a progressive Muslim rally in Toronto to claim that their religion had been “hijacked.”
And back in 2005, a group called the Free Muslims Coalition held what it dubbed a “Free Muslims March Against Terror,” intending to “send a message to the terrorists and extremists that their days are numbered … and to send a message to the people of the Middle East, the Muslim world and all people who seek freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence that we support them.” In the run-up to the event it got enthusiastic national and international publicity, but it ended up drawing about twenty-five people.
Contrast those paltry showings to the thousands of Muslims who have turned out for rallies against cartoons of Muhammad or against Israel. Here are some headlines from the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre of Muhammad cartoonists in January 2015:
Pakistan: 10,000 Muslims protest against Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoons
Australia: 1,000 Muslims rally against Charlie Hebdo and the freedom of speech
Kyrgyztsan: 1,000 Muslims rally: “I am not Charlie, I love my Prophet.”
But given a chance to show how Muslims overwhelmingly reject “extremism,” only a handful show up, and add in whining about “Islamophobia” to their protest against the Islamic State. “Wearing a black turban, Ahmed Qazwini, who called himself a Muslim scholar but not an ordained cleric such as an imam, told the crowd that Islam had been hijacked by ISIS and that ‘most of the media keeps concentrating on them,’ causing a rise in anti-Muslim attitudes.”
So where are Muslims in Dearborn setting up programs to teach young Muslims to reject the understanding of Islam offered by the Islamic State? And is Qazwini suggesting that if only the media would stop reporting about the activities of the Islamic State, the problem would be solved?
“Dearborn rally protests ISIS,” by Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, November 28, 2015:
While thousands shopped Black Friday bargains a half-mile away at Fairlane Town Center, about 100 demonstrators stood in the rain outside Dearborn’s Henry Ford Centennial Library to protest Muslim terrorism overseas.
Calling themselves Dearborn Muslims Against Terrorism on placards they handed out, leaders of the event focused their opposition on the militant ISIS forces waging civil wars in Syria and Iraq.
“If you want to know about ISIS, they have no god, no faith, no morality – they are savages,” Mustapha Mourtada, 28, of Dearborn shouted to the crowd through a bull horn. Mourtada, an automotive engineering manager, led chants of “What do we want? ISIS out! When do we want it? Now!”
At a time when anti-Muslim attitudes are said to be running high in Europe – and when some Republican candidates for president of the U.S. have called for increased security against Muslims, and even a registry of Muslims living here – protest leaders said it was urgent that southeast Michigan’s Muslims show their opposition to terror in the name of Islam.
Members of the group said most Muslims around the world want peace, and they said that anti-Islamic feelings — what they called Islamophobia — had been stirred anew by recent events, including the downing of a Russian airliner claimed by militants; ISIS victories against U.S.-trained Iraqi troops, and terrorist bombings in Paris as well as at a hotel for tourists in Mali.
Wearing a black turban, Ahmed Qazwini, who called himself a Muslim scholar but not an ordained cleric such as an imam, told the crowd that Islam had been hijacked by ISIS and that “most of the media keeps concentrating on them,” causing a rise in anti-Muslim attitudes….
The overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world do not support the aims of ISIS, said Saeed Khan, 48, of Rochester Hills, a lecturer in Islamic studies at Wayne State University.
” We’re looking at a force that is, maybe, 30,000 active ISIS members out of a worldwide population of about 1.6 billion Muslims,” Khan said. ISIS is concentrated in Syria and Iraq, “but recently there have been what you might call franchises of ISIS,” operating in several nations of sub-Saharan Africa, including Mali, Nigeria, East Africa, Kenya and Uganda, he said….
In reality, the Islamic State has attracted 30,000 foreign jihadis to Iraq and Syria. They have a considerably larger fighting force.
“As we arrived in Beirut for vacation, this bomb went off and ruined our trip. This bomber blew up a very crowded neighborhood and four of them were our aunt and her husband and two little girls,” said Century 21 Realtor Rumzi Chammout, 47, of Dearborn.
“So, we are the victims twice — by Islamophobia and ISIS,” Chammout said.

Sam says
Poor Muslims again! How much suffering they have to go through in this country. Their mosques are being burned down, their women are raped by Jews and Christians, their heads are being cut off. They got killed in a shopping mall because they are Muslims. They can not get a job at a grocery store or the jobs they can get they have to touch pork and other non halal food.
I really feel sorry for these bastards.
Diane Harvey says
“There are thousands of Muslims in Dearborn; why did only 100 show up for this?”
Because in their black, cruel hearts Muslims believe that when harm comes to the non-Muslim that harm is perpetually deserved. Their absence from these sorts of events broadcasts that sentiment over and over.
Whatever says
Because Dearborn is the USA Capital for SUNNI Muslims (80% are Sunni & Isis & Boko are Sunni — WHY would they protest against themselves?) Shia Muslims are the ones getting killed — they are likely scared
Troybeam says
Victims you say, nope don’t think so, you turn Dearborn into a little middle eastern community instead of assimilation into American culture yet scream your victims, Sorry but Americans are the victims of your Islamic demands plus your using the 1st Amendment to ensure that you do, if you want to live in a Muslim community than please return to your Islamic nation and leave America alone. One more item, go home and fight the ones that you say destroy what Islam is, peaceful……what a joke.
Shane says
They will not leave; they came here to convert or kill the infidels and to turn the USA into a Muslim country. With the help of the left and the Democrat party, they may succeed.
somehistory says
Boohoo.
When the wild beast from satan is no more, those of us who worship the True God will thank Him for ridding the earth of this death plague.
Until then, a few moslims whining about being victims get no sympathy. A phobia is an unreasoning fear.
Respect for the dangers of snakes, spiders, deep water, high cliffs, etc. are not phobias.
Acknowledgment of what islam means in terms of dangers to the entire human population is not a phobia.
rabrooks says
No matter how many slaughters, how many invasions or how many incidents of all these things occurring, we still have to argue the word “phobia”.
When will we get to the part of these behaviors being deemed “halal”, because they mirror the actions of mad mo’, who is the “finest” example of a mudslime?
Carolyne says
If one substitutes your first sentence to a statement made by a Muslim, there is a similarity. They too believe they are acting upon the orders of the “True God.” As long as we believe that we have a “True God” and they do not have one, we will never win. We cannot depend on god worship to defeat these barbarians. We must ourselves take up the sword and defend ourselves.
All religions, no matter how cruel and greedy they are, believe they worship the only “True God.”
Dennis says
Very, very true. My “true god” is better then your “true god”. The Christian god does not have the power to stop anti-semitism something the Muslim god propagates. As people awaken they will see the foolishness of fundamentalist views and there may be a platform upon which all terrorists will be deprived of their justifying god belief. I also think that we should reach out to these small groups of Muslims who are against ISIS. Instead of condemning them we should make contact with them and work together. All people truly want is a check to feed, cloth and educate their family.
Phyllis says
Dear Dennis, your innocents is beautiful, please allow me to encourage you to read the quran and hadiths before you write or say anything…….what dear Dennis is a moderate muslim > the ones who never speak out against the horror of the deaths done in the name of the quran , YET draw a cartoon and they are screaming for the death for offence against the quran by the thousands of so called ” moderates ” around the world > is that your idea of a moderate muslim ? Dennis if you find a snake in your back yard that for sure is DEADLY would you really want to share your back yard ? Please Dennis read the quran and hadiths > learn what they are given from birth.
Jay Boo says
I feel sorry for some of them — up to point.
They really wish to believe it is not Islam.
But what one Republican candidate for president of the U.S. said about Patterson, NJ although exaggerated, would likely apply to some in Dearborn, MI.
Shane says
Devout Muslims know that Islam is a religion of jihad and misogyny, but they feel that they must lie to defend Islam (Taqiyya). It is sad that our President and most Democrats lie to our citizens about Islam being peaceful and ISIS not being Islamic.
Phyllis says
islam is the most ( piece ) full teaching in the world > a piece off your arm = your hand, apiece off your leg = your foot , and Allah’s favorite piece off your body = your HEAD
VRWC member77 says
“we are the victims twice — by Islamophobia and ISIS”
No, you may have been a “victim” being born into a muslim family but you can change that. LEAVE ISLAM………quietly if you must. Otherwise you’re a promoter of terrorism within the Jihadi sea of Terrorism.
Carolyne says
And non-Muslims are victims thrice–by Islam, ISIS and our own governments.
Raymond Hietapakka says
…there are more Sasquatches than Moderate Muzzle’ems…
TerryA says
Exactly. Never saw either of them yet.
? says
It seems that actual good willed caring Muslims are as elusive as Half-life 3– or like Half-Life 3 they have yet to be seen…..
Westman says
“The overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world do not support the aims of ISIS, said Saeed Khan,…”
Wrong Saeed, particularly outside the US. The majority of Muslims support the Ideology, Quran and Sunnah, which allow the behavior of Daesh(ISIS). What Muslims think, as slaves of Allah, is of no consequence if the doctrine allows this savage behavior. It is Islamic Ideology, itself, that permits and encourages militant Jihad.
I think you’re married to a temporarily docile lion and you think it’s a pussycat.
Jay Boo says
Obama said “only” 10,000 more.
Translation = 500,000 after he gets his foot in the door.
Jaladhi says
Here we go again – poor babies, always a victim. Just for once why don’t they play it straight and admit their religion is the problem instead of crying – boohoohoo!! Thy should get rid of all these imams from their mosques because they teach them terrorism against non-Muslims!1
vlparker says
Yeah, ISIS are savages……….just like Mohammad.
Rob Crawford says
Did anyone correct the guy with the sign about 750,000 potential terrorists? The Tsarnaeves were “refugees”‘”.
Katnis says
My sentiments exactly. If we thought a little longer, I’m sure we could come up with a few more, less recognized names. But to your point, the sign is incorrect.
katnis says
I am probably the only person here who is somewhat interested in the fact that 100 people showed up. Is this the largest gathering of muslims protesting terrorism to date? I see it as progress. Good for them. I hope more join next time. Someone needs to take a stand. Someone needs to be brave. It needs to begin somewhere.
Call me naive, but I still hope that islam will see some sort of reform, and a more modern, compassionate islamic faction will arise.
silvergreycat says
katmis,
*… I still hope that islam will see some sort of reform, and a more modern, compassionate islamic faction will arise.* Dr. Bill Warner adds,,,* the Koran says over 90 times that Mohammed is the perfect life example. Where do we find Mohammed? We find him in the Sira (his biography) and the Hadith (his traditions).
…To know Islam, know Allah and Mohammed, the only two Muslims you need to know. Said another way, if a claim is made about Islam that cannot be traced back to Mohammed and Allah, then it is not Islam. And Islam cannot be reformed, by its very structure. Reforming Islam means reforming Allah and Mohammed. One does not reform perfection.
…It is critical to understand that Muslims do not cause Islam. Islam causes Muslims. Islam is a doctrine that insists that every Muslim submit to a perfect, universal, eternal Koran, the exact words of the only god. A Koran that is perfect down to the smallest detail. Interpretation and context do not allow any escape from this boundary. A Muslim’s only practical way to temper Islam is by denying or ignoring the texts.*
Link… http://www.politicalislam.com/subjective-fundamental-errors/
see also… http://www.4truth.net/fourtruthpbworld.aspx?pageid=8589953043
and… http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/02/is-allah-worst-communicator-ever.html
…
Katnis says
Thanks for the thoughtful answer and for providing those links. I never know what to expect when I comment. I appreciate your reply. The articles were great. Pretty much squashed my thoughts on possible reform.
Just to note – My hope for change and the possibility of a better future is rooted in my upbringing. It continues to emerge as I strive to understand the topic at hand.
Here is a line from one of the articles that pretty much sums up why it’s hard to argue for change and the reform of islam: “This must be true because it cannot be false. It cannot be false because it says it’s true.” Further, since the koran is perfect, as is mohammed, there really is no need to change. And if you try to change, you are worse than the kefir and should be killed. So the rules are this: islam AS IS, or death. Those are the two choices.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who call darkness light and light darkness and call bitter sweet and sweet bitter”. Isaiah 5:20
Woe, indeed.
Phyllis says
katnis , TRY READING THE QURAN AND HADITHS AND WISE UP, THERE IS NO COMPASSION IN ISLAM
TerryA says
Your naive.
Katnis says
Darn it. I asked for that.
There I go applying western thinking again.
Bradley Lexvold says
I’ll believe their against ISIS when they participate in my contest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKRgv9r61jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LyEZQOP1vk https://www.facebook.com/events/1030429303655543/ http://www.secedelinks.org
Baucent says
The guy with the sign “750,000 refugees since 9/11 and 0 of them terrorists”..who is he trying to kid?
Clearly he hasn’t heard of all those Somali refugees who have returned to Somalia to joint Jihadist group al-shabab (also linked to ISIS). And then there are the Boston bombers, arrived as refugees. How many of the foiled terror plots and people currently on FBI watch lists arrived as refugees?
Jura says
TAQQIYA
mortimer says
Victims? I agree that ALL Muslims are victims…but victims of the delusion of Islam.
Muslims feel trapped by their death cult…and indeed they are! But they PROJECT their own guilt onto ‘others’ just as Mohammed did.
Muslims need to be deprogrammed out of Islam. ISIS is not a misunderstanding or a false version of Islam.
That may be a bitter pill for Muslims to swallow, but swallow it they must. And then they must leave Islam.
someone says
One of the signs says “750,000 refugees since 9/11 and 0 terrorists.”
The disgusting Tsarnaev brothers who carried out the horrific jihadist Boston bombing were __refugees__. They received citizenship years after 9/11, and their hateful jihad was perpetrated in 2013.
No doubt there are other examples, but I hope people’s memories are not so short that such absurd claims go unchallenged.
GuntherL says
In my hometown of Antwerp, Belgium, police interrupted a party of a famous Belgian footballer Radja Nainggolan (Thai roots) because other guests had reported him for ‘acting suspiciously’. You know what happened? They quickly cleared the misunderstanding and posed for a picture. Problem solved.
If only muslims would be capable to see the light side of life.
Angemon says
Where were they when the Dearborn Police Department arrested people for discussing Christianity with muslims?
That’s odd, seeing how ISIS claims to be islamic. They justify their actions with references to islamic texts and traditions, and their doing so attracted tens of thousands of muslims worldwide to join them. But hey, clearly telling non-muslims that ISIS has nothing to do with islam is the best way to deem their clams null and void, right?
Keyword being “said” – gotta play the fear card.
Let’s tell it as it is, shall we? It’s not that anti-muslim sentiment in Europe is allegedly high for no good reason – there’s the “no-go zones”, areas of muslim majority where non-muslim law ends and sharia begins, and non-muslims enter at their own peril, including firefighters or delivery people, there’s the disproportional number of criminals per hundred thousand of people when compared to non-muslim populations, and there’s all the threats and attacks against their European host nations justified with islamic scripture.
Perfectly understandable and justified.
If by “peace” they mean “everyone will be a muslim” then I believe that.
F***ing idiots. A phobia is, by its very definition, an irrational fear. If you claim that being opposed to muslims and islam because of what muslims do in accordance to islam you’re not talking about an irrational fear, you’re talking about a perfectly understandable response to a perceived threat.
Then they’re hypocrites, plain and simple. ISIS aims to spread the caliphate and islam through the whole world. Are you really saying that most muslims worldwide don’t consider a caliphate as the perfect society to live under, and don’t want to see islam ruling the world? Where’s the evidence to back such a statement? Of course, there’s none – evidence points in the exact other way. I bet his line of reasoning is like this: “there are 1.5 billion of muslims worldwide, and most of them are not waging war like the islamic state is, therefore they don’t support the islamic state or its aims”. Of course, there are many other reasons to why they’re not waging war like ISIS is, the most obvious being that most muslims worldwide aren’t in a situation where they can do so. Those people living in, for example, Saudi Arabia or Yemen, don’t get the chance to wage war on non-muslims because they live in muslim-majority countries.
Not “franchises” – local islamic terror groups whose existence predates ISIS and whose goals are the same as ISIS. Those groups willingly pledged allegiance to ISIS and now call themselves “the islamic state in < location>”. Because, you know, most muslims worldwide reject ISIS’ aims and stuff.
Of, for f***’s sake – comparing a bomb attack to distrust because of said bomb attack? And these f***ing idiots want to be taken seriously? Really?
D, Thinker says
A Lot of good points here. Yes, it makes every non-Muslim feel like swearing because leading politicians (many of them any way) either have blinkers on or they see an opportunity when this world wide Caliphate is discussed behind closed doors to usher in One World religion and a New World Order ( the vision that many Presidents of The USA and Prime Ministers of various countries constantly propagate before the world news cameras). They are supposed to be highly educated (including world history)! Some times I think their knowledge is turning to absolute foolishness and they want to drag us all along.
Doug says
Seems to me these “poor, put upon muzzies” are employing taqqiya, no?
Renee says
For the few that did turn up this must have been especially difficult (dangerous?)
So I applaud those that did turn up to protest ISIS.
citycat says
This stuff from muslims is a smokescreen while they carry on the important Jihad, which is breeding for Allah.
Infidels have been taken for a ride.
The religions have a common aspect that is the givings from the devotees to the religion. What has happened to those givings? Why is the Pope not shining with the light of truth. The muslims get a promise that is unquestionable. The buddhists vanish into golden light, the hindus get reborn, where’s the focus on here, on Earth.
Islam is radically different in that if there was a circle of all religions like that circle of representatives of each country, then Islam could not join because Islam is intolerant any other religion, and i’m not sure that Islam should be called a religion with respect to the Holy Qur’an that seems like an insane rambling of hatred to all infidels, and something about a crescent.
Dan Roman says
Like snakes in the grass.
Jim Peters says
Muslims have said they are afraid to come forward to protest ISIS and radical Islam. I believe they have a reason to fear so, if one follows the Koran. They feel trapped between radical Islam and the growing hatred in Western countries. I could understand this, but don’t trust them regardless. The lying that they are commanded to do in the name of Islam in order to deceive infidels and gain the upper hand leaves me no alternative but to support their removal from our societies. Mere ostracizing, assimilation or any other tactic is dubious at best.
Ralph says
What Happened To These Idiots 72 Virgins? Recon They All Left Paradise For The European Countries?
Hope says
OK, so they are against ISIS. BIG DEAL, WHO ISN’T??? What I want to know is, when will they renounce SHARIA LAW, which is a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America? That is the real threat to the US. Little by little, their demands for us to change our laws and customs to suit THEM, are increasing. I see at least one news article about this every day. If you truly are Americans, renounce Sharia Law! Assimilate! Maybe then you wil experience less “Islamophobia!”
Matthieu Baudin says
“,,,There are thousands of Muslims in Dearborn; why did only 100 show up for this? This is not the first time that attendance at a Muslim rally against terrorism has been decidedly underwhelming. Earlier this month, only 30 Muslims protested against the jihad massacres in Paris. In July 2015, a Muslim rally in Ireland against the Islamic State drew fifty people. In October 2014 in Houston, a rally against the Islamic State organized by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) drew the grand total of ten people. In August 2013 in Boston, about 25 Muslims rallied against “misperceptions” that Islam was violent. About the same number showed up in June 2013 at a progressive Muslim rally in Toronto to claim that their religion had been ‘hijacked.’,,,”
Undoubtedly there would have been considerably more who would have liked to have attended.
Perhaps they lacked courage; something that’s always safer for someone else to demonstrate, preferably exhibited back in their home country.
Tuscany says
ISIS is doing exactly what muhammed has told all muslims..there is no peace in the so called religion islam.. here’s a better understanding of muslims: radicals cut off your head while moderates hold your feet
gravenimage says
At a time when anti-Muslim attitudes are said to be running high in Europe – and when some Republican candidates for president of the U.S. have called for increased security against Muslims, and even a registry of Muslims living here – protest leaders said it was urgent that southeast Michigan’s Muslims show their opposition to terror in the name of Islam.
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So–it isn’t important for Muslims in the West to oppose ISIS because it is a violent and oppressive horror show, but just because Infidels are starting to wake up and become alarmed, and just beginning to consider resistance to Jihad…
Very telling.
More:
Members of the group said most Muslims around the world want peace, and they said that anti-Islamic feelings — what they called Islamophobia — had been stirred anew by recent events, including the downing of a Russian airliner claimed by militants; ISIS victories against U.S.-trained Iraqi troops, and terrorist bombings in Paris as well as at a hotel for tourists in Mali.
Wearing a black turban, Ahmed Qazwini, who called himself a Muslim scholar but not an ordained cleric such as an imam, told the crowd that Islam had been hijacked by ISIS and that “most of the media keeps concentrating on them,” causing a rise in anti-Muslim attitudes….
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Notice this Mohammedan does not actually condemn any of these atrocities–just that the filthy Kuffar dare report them.
Here’s more from Ahmed Qazini:
“I ask the Almighty to help us fight these terrorists, these extremists,” and to “help us in uniting as Muslims,” he said, adding: “Unfortunately, we have people. … claiming (that) all Muslims are terrorists. This is wrong. We have to fight the propaganda.”
This was at a protest demanding the US let in aggressive Syrian “refugees”.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/242553-dearborn-muslims-protest-in-support-of-syrian-refugees-and-against-islamophobia-in-america/
More:
The overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world do not support the aims of ISIS, said Saeed Khan, 48, of Rochester Hills, a lecturer in Islamic studies at Wayne State University.
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The meretricious Saeed Khan has long whitewashed Jihad.
More:
“As we arrived in Beirut for vacation, this bomb went off and ruined our trip. This bomber blew up a very crowded neighborhood and four of them were our aunt and her husband and two little girls,” said Century 21 Realtor Rumzi Chammout, 47, of Dearborn.
“So, we are the victims twice — by Islamophobia and ISIS,” Chammout said.
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Would someone who had just lost his aunt and uncle and little cousins to violent–and had this horror happen right in front of them–*really* list “Islamophobia” as a bigger threat than ISIS terrorism?
THE HINDU says
These muslims adopt ‘victimisation’ purely because of “kafirophobia” or “infidelophobia”. Islamic State is absolutely islamic because it follows the quran to the very letter. muslims cannot dissociate themselves from the islamic state because all muslims also follow the quran to the very letter. All strong suspects should be treated with ‘covert extra-judicial elimination’ by law enforcement instead of making them go through the long and often unreliable legal process.
D.P. says
I commend the Muslim demonstrators at the Dearborn, MI library for their bravery, irregardless of their small numbers. A Mosque in Dearborn with several hundred members posted a banner “Muslims against ISIS” for some time a while back. This was another brave stand.
Many Muslims around the world are probably not happy that Muslims in the city are not blowing themselves up over here every 10 minutes. To say this statement isn’t true would be either naive or a blatant lie…sorry, that is why we don’t trust Muslims. We see what Shiites and Sunnis do to each other so non Muslims don’t think we are extra special to avoid problems too.
The Prophet Mohamed was saved from death by Jews only to shortly thereafter slaughter the Jews and document rules on how to hate and kill them. The Koran clearly adds Jew and Christian in the same sentence repeatedly also, in case you haven’t paged through a copy.
The current Muslim countries weren’t always majority Muslim…they just killed almost all the non Muslim. Pick up a history book if you don’t believe it.
The leader of ISIS has his PHD or doctorate in Muslim studies by the way.
truusa says
folks read the Koran and hadiths and it’s scary. The Koran has verse when Muslims are out numbered to show outward love but inner hate. Get your Muslim numbers up and kill the non Muslim. It’s in there holy book.