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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….
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Ray Jarman says
As the old saying goes, the truth really hurts. If the inbred inhabitants of Dearborn or any other city praises terrorists, it is the obligation for the press to apprise the citizens of the situation. To do otherwise would boarder on treason.
somehistory says
“jihad”….the word that means a mozlum or group of mozlums are waging war….by any means they wish to, which includes rape, beatings, threats, whining, complaining, lying, and so very often, murder…in the cause of spreading islam and subjugating the rest of mankind.
Every mozlum is under obligation to wage this warfare…one way or another.
mozlums have claimed that the word only means that a mozlum is engaged in some manner of self-improvement.
Sadly, and evilly, this “self-improvement” most often results in pain, sorrow and death for infidels…and even other mozlums.
This mayor is lying, of course. No mention of the many celebrations of the mass-slaughter of innocent people of Israel in his claims of people having a great phobia of him and his crew of fellow mozlums there in a city that once was home to **infidels** by the thousands and now, resembles some berg in pakistan.
mozlums have much use for the buzz words of “bigotry and racist.”
The squeaky wheel gets the grease and mozlums know all too well how to squeak.
biden promised that mozlums would be in every level of his administration; could be one of them wrote the tweet in support of the “jihad” of lying, whining, deflection and claiming to be victims of hate, bigotry and racism.
The mozlum mayor of Dearborn, told biden he needs to “co-govern and “co-write policy for the country” if he wants the mozlum vote.
There should be more people pointing out the fact that mozlums are all in favor of mass-murder, rape, lying, whining, extortion, etc. if it will spread the evil, demonic filth of islam.
It’s the Truth….not a phobia.
Larry Partch says
People hate the Truth when confronted with it.
Larry Partch says
People hate the truth when confronted with it!