Dearborn’s Muslim Mayor Tears Into Resident Opposed to Street Honoring Pro-Jihadist
Approximately 55% of Dearborn residents reported Middle Eastern or North African ancestry in a 2023 census making it “the first Arab-majority city” in the U.S.
Dearborn, Michigan, resident Edward “Ted” Barham, a Christian pastor, attended a recent City Council meeting to express his opposition to renaming a city street after pro-jihadist Osama Siblani. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud called Barham an “Islamophobe” who did “not belong in this city.”
Earlier this month, the city renamed a section of a street after Siblani, the founder and publisher of Arab American News, to honor his “contributions to the community.” Weighing in on this misguided decision, Hot Air’s David Strom noted that Siblani “is an advocate of violence and celebrated designated terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas, which seems incompatible with being officially honored by the government.”
Strom was hardly alone. The Washington Free Beacon reported:
Siblani, an Arab-American newspaper publisher, has advocated for Israel’s destruction, praised terror groups like Hamas, and claimed the American government is “bought by the Zionist lobby.”
Siblani’s radical track record in Dearborn—a heavily Muslim community known for being a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment—includes numerous public appearances in which he praised Palestinian jihadi groups as “heroes,” lauded the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and threatened to send Israeli Jews “back to Poland.”
During a September 2024 rally in Dearborn, when Israel was locked in a fierce fight against Hezbollah terrorists on its northern border, Siblani told a crowd chanting “death to Israel” that the terror group will “take care of the job” by eradicating the Jewish state, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which monitors radical activity.
Siblani later told the crowd: “To [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, who wants to bring [evacuated Israeli civilians back] to the north: We are going to take you back to Poland.”
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 13, 2025
Below, an X user lists several of Siblani’s greatest hits, which include describing Hamas’s bloody Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israeli citizens as “a military operation with no terrorist overtones,” and stating that Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Palestinian factions are “freedom fighters.”
He’s a scumbag..get these Muslims out of positions of authority in our country pic.twitter.com/1Of4S8SY7l
— VolatileQueen (@rogersqueen) September 16, 2025
At any rate, Barham told City Council members, “I feel like having that sign up there is almost like naming a street Hezbollah Street or Hamas Street. Hezbollah bombed the embassy in Beirut, including many Americans. I just feel it’s quite inappropriate,” according to Fox 2 Detroit.
Hammoud made clear where his sympathies lie in his blistering reply. “You’re an Islamophobe,” he told Barham. “And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor you are not welcome here. The day you move out of the city will be the day I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.”
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud to a resident: "You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe! Get out!"
The resident opposed naming a street, in Dearborn, after pro-jihad Osama Siblani pic.twitter.com/hGTuTD4FFI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 16, 2025
America has a long tradition of embracing people from every corner of the globe. Our nation has offered countless newcomers the chance to build new lives, and many have expressed deep gratitude for the extraordinary possibilities that await them here.
For more than 250 years, immigrants have managed to balance the preservation of their cultural heritage with integration into the American way of life.
Unfortunately, this does not hold true for most Muslims. While they are happy to take advantage of the opportunities the U.S. — and the capitalist system — offer, they refuse to assimilate into Western culture. Siblani and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) come to mind. While both have benefited enormously from Americans’ largesse, neither has been afraid to express their contempt for this country.
Approximately 55% of Dearborn residents reported Middle Eastern or North African ancestry in a 2023 census, making it “the first Arab-majority city” in the U.S.
Dearborn is a microcosm of what we can expect if the influx of Muslims into the U.S. continues: the displacement of Americans.
The Dearborn experiment suggests that, unlike every other ethnic group that has immigrated to our shores over the last two and a half centuries, the Islamic culture just might be incompatible with our way of life.
It’s worth noting that Dearborn is represented in Congress by the vile, antisemitic, and anti-American Rashida Tlaib. In the clip below, recorded on Thursday, Tlaib delivers yet another viral moment on the House floor.
BREAKING NEWS:📣 Rashida Tlaib (D) Michigan is losing her damn mind in the House today. 😡🔥🤣
Actually, does she have one? 🧠 pic.twitter.com/UzKKEB9I09
— MustangMedic (@MustangMedicX) September 18, 2025
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Eventually you will be forced to ask yourself if you’d rather be an islamophobe or alive
I’m an islamophob. I have no problems saying it. Anyone who isn’t and isn’t Muslim is a self destructive moron. I’m not sure what can be done. Our system wasn’t really constructed to protect it against invasion from within when it is done using the instruments the system provides.
Muslims use our freedom of speech and religion founding elements against us but, how many want to become Americans and abide by them ? Very, very few. They are here to take over. Any compromise with them eventually will be ignored. According to their founder, they can lie to us infidels any time, any place, anywhere. This is their goal and in this case they speak their truth.
We really need a new word for dislike of Islam, rather than irrational fear of it.
It is very rational to be concerned about/wary of a “religion” which wants me dead or enslaved.
Dearborn needs remedial action, it is crazy to allow any terror supporting enclave to exist in America.
Dearborn, Michigan is now functionally part of the Ummah and therefore American laws and mores no longer prevail. If you are not Muslim, it is time to get out. If you have business relationships within the city, it is time to pull out.
Subotai Bahadur
If we get dearborn to secede from the union can we then declare war and invade it or bomb it out of existence?
Henry Ford hometown majority muslim now?
Henry Ford was a major antisemite so it would be fitting.
Something tells me he wouldn’t have occurred for the Muslims either. I for one I’m laughing at the whole thing.
Just like the Germans. They wanted to get rid of those pesky Jews in Darne did it. Now look at what Germany has become. Serves the master race right.
Hitler and the arabs got along fine. They had at last 1 hatred in common. Guess who?
Ford was the one who imported the Moslems in the first place. He had no problem with Islam.
One of the last edicts from Allah was that no Muslim should have relationships with any Jew or Christian. Dearborn is now and forever part of the Ummah. Even if “reconquered” by Infidels it is still part of the Ummah and needed to be taken back. Forget “business”… it is a No-Go zone.
It doesn’t matter what some dark age bandit said the voices in his head said, his self-serving ideas have no place in any civilized land and once purged, they have no claim on it,
Hit wrong symbol- Islam is not compatible with freedom. Business, maybe but otherwise, nope.
its a
mad mad mad muss world and we are living in it
the uk police go and knock on doors of suspected pro freedom troublemakers and the usa charges them with disturbing the peace etc
Police are good little doggies. They follow the orders of their masters.
How long before the name Dearborn disappears?
How do you say “New Mogadishu” in Arabic?
I don’t think there are many Somalis in Dearborn.
Meh, the majority sets the agenda and everyone else can like it, lump it or put in the very difficult, time consuming, thankless labor to create a coalition to effectively oppose the current political regime in Dearborn. That said every community should be observing, taking notes and drawing conclusions about the future of their community instead of the usual complacency followed by shock at ‘sudden change’ and only getting motivated after the opportunity to effectively prevent such has passed.
This is the Islamic way they now use instead of open warfare. they come in peacefully and through politics gradually takeover a town. Once in power they use intimidation and then actual force to rid the city of any nonMuslims. If need be they will use murder to attain their ends. Sharia law allows murder when it helps Islam. This should be a wakeup call but it won’t. We are so divided as a country that one side will say they are honorable and peaceful people and the other side will be to timid to act. Look at Europe to see the future of America. Dearborne will not disappear, it will become a shinning light on the hill to all Muslims.
Epic city Texas comes to mind
Eventually they will win out to build
Lots of politicans paid off in the area, including the mayor
Using extreme pressure to get ranchers to sake
It’s a real shit show
Only reason Abbott put a pause on it was because of public pressure
Ken Patton is a fighter, Abbott is a RINO in truth
I’ll never forget his grinning face with George Floyd’s family in Houston
Remember back in 1981 when Oregon got its panties all in a twist because Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was constructing the city of Rajneeshpuram around his 100-acre ranch for his “school of meditation?”
Good times!
Today, Oregon would probably invite the Ayatollah in to build an airbase.
Are you kidding me? Oregon/CA/Washington would invite the Ayatollah to resume uranium enrichment!
Repeal Hart-Cellar.
Yes, replace it with a closed door policy which encourages emigration.
As the Great Man from Kenya once said, “Elections have consequences.”
Surrounding towns should name streets for heroes who fought Muslim expansion. Charles Martel, Jan Sobieski, William Marshal…
I sure hope the Muzzies don’t destroy the Dearborn Sausage Company. Used to visit there for lunch when I had business at the Rouge River Steel plant.
Well the Mayor certainly showed that he aligns with terror organizations. Maybe a visit from the DOJ’s Civil Rights division would be a quick cure. Just sayin…
That would itself be a breach of his civil rights. He has the same right to express his opinions, including support for terrorism, as anyone else does.
Next will be Islamic police enforcing Sharia laws as in sections of European cities.
It’s waphat they do.