A Wall St Journal writer calls Dearborn the Jihad capital of the country and they go out and prove his point

In February Steven Stalinsky, a Wall St Journal contributor, penned an article in which he described Dearborn MI as America’s Jihad Capital. It’s not without merit.

Thousands march in support of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Protesters, many with kaffiyehs covering their faces, shout “Intifada, intifada,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “America is a terrorist state.” Local imams give fiery antisemitic sermons. This isn’t the Middle East. It’s the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Mich.

Almost immediately after Oct. 7, and long before Israel began its ground offensive in Gaza, people were celebrating the horrific events of that day in pro-Hamas rallies and marches throughout Dearborn. A local headline describing an Oct. 10 event at the Ford Performing Arts Center read “Michigan rally cheers Hamas attack.” Imam Imran Salha of Dearborn’s Islamic Center of Detroit told the crowd that Israel’s past actions have put “fire in our hearts that will burn that state”—Israel— “until its demise.” In May 2023, Mr. Salha had urged his congregation to say “amen” in agreement with his prayer that Allah “eradicate from existence” the “sick, disgusting Zionist regime.” In October 2022, according to the Washington Free Beacon, his organization received $150,000 in funding from the Homeland Security Department’s nonprofit security grants program.

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Ahmad Musa Jibril is perhaps the most influential English-speaking jihadi sheikh. From his home in Dearborn he promotes holy war to his tens of thousands of followers on Twitter and Telegram. On Oct. 7, the day Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took almost 200 hostage, a Twitter account bearing his name retweeted a post that said, “The hearts haven’t been overjoyed like this in so long.” This account also posted a tweet imploring Allah to “purify the land from the aggression of the apes, swines, and hypocrites.” He later recorded a video calling on Muslims in the West to start normalizing the term “jihad” by using it frequently “on your social media, and in the mosques.” He has called President Biden a “senile pharaoh.”

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Of course, denizens of Dearborn took issue with that but then they went out and validated Stalinsky’s point.

Muslim protesters were heard chanting ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel‘ during a rally in a Michigan city dubbed the ‘jihad capital’ of the US by the Wall Street Journal.

Demonstrators gathered in the city in commemoration of Al-Quds Day in support of Palestine and to oppose Israel.

The protest came less than a week after seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, drawing global outrage.

Video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows Tarek Bazzi, a local activist, delivering remarks at a podium as chants of ‘death to America!’ sound in the background.

‘It’s not just Genocide Joe that has to go,’ Bazzi said in reference to President Biden. 

‘It is the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen, and would support it – such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s Earth.’ Bazzi then directed his attention to Israel.

‘So when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist…the chant ‘death to Israel’ has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today,’ he said.

Audience members then repeated the chant.

Bazzi explained that the rallies have become ‘so anti-American’ because ‘it’s the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities.’

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In the wake of the October 7 attacks on 1,000 Israeli citizens, protests erupted in Dearborn – supporting the Palestinian side.

There was more

Bazzi’s speech was followed by remarks from Michigan Iman Usama Abdulghani, who called Israel an “evil settler colonialist project” and a “cancer” while applauding those who are willing to publicly criticize the country.

“Israel is ISIS, they are Nazis, they are fascists, they are racists,” Abdulghani said. “The people of the world now know this.”

Protesters were then heard chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea,” a controversial phrase classified as “hate” by the American Jewish Committee.

“Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen, and would support it – such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s Earth.”

And there it is. The ultimate goal. Israel and the US are to be destroyed. It’s nice when they tell you what they want and this needs to be taken seriously. Europe is in deep trouble because it didn’t.

The outrage is a facade, a canard for that end.

Dearborn is but the first domino.

Islam doesn’t seek to join or assimilate. It seeks to dominate.

BTW, you won’t find coverage of this event on left wing media sites.

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