Posted on 07/21/2006 10:23:48 AM PDT by mojito
.... As the New York Times reported from Dearborn, "For miles along West Warren -- in hair salons, restaurants and meat markets -- shopkeepers and their relatively few customers stared at televisions tuned in to Al Jazeera." Incidentally, there were "relatively few" customers out and about only because, as one baker knew, "most of his regular customers were home watching [Al Jazeera], just as they had all day, every day," since Israel's offensive began. Why does this matter? Al Jazeera, of course, is the relentlessly anti-American, anti-Israeli, jihad-boosting "news" network. To find TVs in the heartland tuned in to this station today is roughly akin to coming across an American town, circa 1942, tuned in to Axis propagandists Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw. But this isn't, as they say, your father's heartland. Hezbollah itself is popular in Dearborn, which can fill a banquet hall to celebrate "Lebanon Liberation Day" -- the day Hezbollah claims as victory when Israeli forces withdrew in 2000. Osama Siblani, the publisher of Dearborn's Arab American News, considers members of Hezbollah -- along with Hamas and other jihadist groups -- freedom fighters. And, as Mr. Siblani tells it to the Detroit News, he's not alone: "If morally supporting Hizbollah or associating with [Hezbollah spiritual leader Muhammad Hussein] Fadlallah is a crime, 'there is not going to be enough buses to haul the people out and take them to jail.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
I lived in Dearborn for while.... West Warren is REALLY strange.
this bunch are the constituents of John Dingell,(D) in the House.
I don't think so, he's on the East Side of Detroit.
don't look now elmer- your identity has already changed
bump
Last line of the article:
"We can't fight if we don't know who we're fighting. We can't win if we don't know who we are."
Savage has been saying this for a couple of years.
Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:
...and the barbarians are already inside our gates.
Never, ever, forget:
Where It's 9-11 All the Time...Click the picture...
...and at our neighbour's gates, as well:
Terror Strike Toronto ( Aborted! )-- Click the picture:
"Hard to find a common denominator?" Like hell!
The best revenge would be for their children and grandchildren to reject Islam and follow Jesus.
I have a friend whose daughter’s looking at a move to MI.She’s a med student,just returned from a stint over in Africa. Another friend chimed in to the discussion we were having,that people in MI are nice,it’s a nice place,blah-blah-blah.Her entire experience is that of a tourist.I was telling her about the Sharia Law caliphate that is Dearborn.She said “I never saw any of that there!” Am I overblowing the situation? Michiganders,what say you? Do you love your state?Would you recommend it to anyone who’s looking to buy a home and relocate there? Just curious....
And I'm sure there are many nice folks in Dearborn.
However, it has become the center of Islamist radicalism in the United States, and local law enforcement obeys a kind of quasi-Sharia.
In addition to the recent Terry Jones brouhaha, there's this from last year:
"The arraignment of four Christian missionaries on criminal charges will get underway today in the 19th Judicial District Court at 16077 Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, Michigan in what has been described as police enforcement of Sharia law in an American city dominated by a large Muslim population.
To cries of “Allah Akbar” from the Muslim crowd, the four Christian missionaries were arrested on June 18, 2010 by Dearborn Police officers at the Annual Arab International Festival.
One of the arrested missionaries, according to the Thomas More Law Center was Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, MD, who purportedly attempted to engage in peaceful dialogue with several Muslim youths.
The other three missionaries reportedly were videotaping the conversation, before the police seized their cameras and hauled them off to a detention cell.
The Dearborn Police have refused requests from The Thomas More Law Center to view the video at the scene of their arrest, which the missionaries claimed would completely exonerate them of any wrongdoing.
The Thomas More Law Center is a national public interest law firm with headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, commented,
“It's evident that the Dearborn Police department was more interested in placating Muslims than obeying our Constitution. These Christians were exercising their Constitutional rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion, but apparently in a city where the Muslim population seems to dominate the political apparatus, Sharia law trumps our Constitution.”
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6719/pub_detail.asp
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