By Peter Fernandez
The Biden administration is wooing Islamic America, especially in Michigan, where 300,000 registered Muslim voters are fierce supporters of Palestine and Hamas. Just outside Detroit, the suburban enclave of Dearborn has become a Mecca of anti-Israel/America malevolence. This is historically poignant since the famous automobile maven Henry Ford bought his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, in 1918 and printed an unsparing series of antisemitic attacks.
Long before October 7th, the Wolverine State’s Muslim leaders zealously opposed Biden’s vital support of Israel. Ergo, these Motor City mullahs’ most recent protests calling for a Gazan cease-fire are not, with a nudge and a wink, pacifist overtures to “the occupying Zionists.” These Pro-Hamas activists are not constructing beatific bridges between Arab and Jew, but getting dirty behind and beneath the scenes financing Tunnels for Terror, not to be confused with Kars for Kids. If Biden doesn’t do as these surly star-spangled Ishmaelites demand, their vote will be withheld, and this time, it will not be over a bowl of steaming mutton and chickpea stew.
According to a Cygnal poll conducted between October 16th and 18th, more than half of U.S. Muslim voters believed the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust was justified. A February 1 NY Times article stated that “President Biden ordered broad financial and travel sanctions on Israeli settlers accused of violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, a forceful gesture aimed in part at Arab American voters who have expressed fury about the president’s backing of Israel’s war in Gaza.”
The Biden Administration is only concerned with maintaining a Democratic chokehold on America until we all turn blue in the race. A Harvard CAPS-Harris poll shows that 80% of American voters do not stand with Hamas in their terrorist war against Israel. Therefore, these targeted sanctions are clumsy and desperate attempts at mollifying Muslim voters and do not in any way reflect the American public’s view of this conflict.
Arab Americans are well-represented within the Biden Administration, with 22 officials holding important positions. Updated: Meet the Arab Americans in the Biden Administration
After the Wall Street Journal printed a Feb. 2 op-ed by Steven Stalinsky, a counter-terrorism researcher, exposing Dearborn’s alleged support for Islamo-terrorism, Biden faulted the article: “Americans know that blaming a group of people based on the words of a small few is wrong,” he tweeted. “That’s exactly what can lead to Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, and it shouldn’t happen to the residents of Dearborn.”
However, according to Daniel Greenfield’s February 19th Front Page article, The Truth About the Dearborn Jihad, this “small few” was over 1200 people celebrating Israel’s demise inside Dearborn’s Islamic Center of America, the largest mega mosque in the country. See:The Truth About the Jihad in Dearborn | Frontpage Mag
“After the Hamas attacks,” writes Greenfield, “the Detroit News promoted claims by the Islamic Center of Detroit that it had been forced to boost security because ‘people were scared.’” Just the week before, the center’s Imam Imran Salha preached before worshippers that Israel had put a “fire in our hearts that will burn that state until its demise.”
On May 19, 2023, in a YouTube video translated from Arabic to English by the Middle East Research Institute, Salha said, “If somebody loves Palestine, but they don’t worship Allah, then I don’t want your activism for Palestine.” He also protested those who “shake hands with people who endorse things like the LGBTQ principles.”. Detroit Imam Warns Against Making Pro-Palestine Alliances with People Who Endorse LGBTQ Principles (youtube.com)
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer complained that the WSJ article regarding Dearborn was “incredibly cruel and ignorant and a total misrepresentation of an important city full of a lot of beautiful people.” Her “good friend,” Abed Hammoud, a former US attorney who once ran for Dearborn’s mayor, also headed the Congress of Arab American Organizations. Hammoud, a Lebanese immigrant, once insisted that US/Israel efforts against Hezbollah were “smearing the whole (Dearborn) community.
According to Greenfield, who is also a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Abed Hammoud was once the lawyer for Mohammad Bazzi, a financier for Hezbollah, the “specially designated global terrorist” who is also described as “a player for senior Hezbollah operatives and senior Iranian leadership.” While knowing this, in 2011, President Obama appointed Hammoud as an Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
In 2022, the Mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hussein Hammoud, nephew to Hamed Hammoud, participated in a New Generation for Palestine rally. In a video of the rally posted by MEMRI, Hammoud described Dearborn as “the city of resistance.” “Resistance” is the euphemism that Hamas and American social justice warriors substitute for “terror.”
At the same event, a guest speaker Osama Siblani, publisher of Arab American News, ex- claimed, “We are the Arabs that are going to lift Palestinians all the way to victory. When we are in Michigan, and whether we are in Jenin. Believe me. Everyone should fight within his means. They will fight with stones. Others will fight with guns. others will fight with planes, drones. And others will fight with rockets. And others will fight in their voice, and the others will fight with their hands and say free, free Palestine!”
An American Military News article published four days after October 7th reads, “Hundreds of residents gathered Tuesday at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn to protest against Israel and support Palestine after Hamas killed 1200 Jews.” Collin Rugg, co- owner of Trending Politics, shared video footage of the rally on X and stated that Alabas Farhat, a Democrat State Representative, was a featured speaker. Video: Michigan crowd cheers Palestine after Hamas kills Jews (americanmilitarynews.com)
By simply crying, “ISLAMOPHOBIA!” organized haters of America and Israel are granted license to lie and steal malleable American hearts and minds.
The author is a children’s book author and Vermont resident.
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The plan is to divide and conquer. United we stand, divided we fall. Those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it. Mystery Babylon is no longer a mystery. When you look at the wealthiest, the most insolated behind their security gates and fully stocked operational bunkers, is it really that hard to determine who is stoking the flames of division and bellowing for bloodshed?
Honest question. Why do I, as an American, have to support a small Religiously founded country, that is currently genociding it’s former residents and exists solely because of US taxpayer dollars and an incredibly high preponderance of dual citizens in the upper echelons of the US Government?
Answer? I don’t.
While everyone is looking at the Middle East, in Geneva, Switzerland, the plots are designed, hatched and unleashed upon the globe. What is Cern actually doing?
“A small Religiously founded country…” Are you referring to Sunni Moslem Egypt, which receives 1.5 billion in aid annually, or Shiite Islamic Iran, which is certainly Relgiously founded, and also receives billions from the US. I know, Alex, its so much more fun to blame the Jews, isn’t it?
I suspect “malleable American hearts and minds” are thoroughly sick and tired of hearing about how all of the world’s problems are the fault of White, Christian men.
I don’t have an obligation to “support” any side. America has enough problems at home to worry about. It doesn’t need to get involved with yet another mess made by others.
Other countries have their interests, their resources and their abilities. They should use them to sort out their own mess and stop agitating here.
I’m delighted that Biden’s lost the Muslim vote. Of course he’s not happy about it. His “team” is making quacking noises about a ceasefire and hinting that maybe, just maybe, slaughtering 20,000 kids went a weeee bit too far. Where was Biden last November when it mattered? Sending Israel missiles. Muslims won’t forget. The Dem woke coalition is forever fractured and there’s no putting Humpty Dumpty back together.