From Fox News: At a Dearborn City Council meeting last week, Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud told local resident Edward “Ted” Barham, a Christian, that he was “not welcome” in the city after Barham raised concerns about new street signs honoring Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani.
FOX 2 Detroit reported that the signs honoring Siblani were placed at intersections on Warren Avenue by Wayne County, not the City of Dearborn. But the mayor escalated the debate, telling Barham, “Although you live here, you are not welcome here.”
Barham introduced himself as “Ted Barham, Dearborn resident,” and objected to two intersections being renamed after Siblani.
He said, “He’s a promoter of Hezbollah and Hamas” before quoting past remarks from Siblani, including, “He talks about how the blood of the martyrs irrigates the land of Palestine … whether we are in Michigan and whether we are in Yemen. Believe me, everyone should fight within his means. They will fight with stones, others will fight with guns, others fight with planes, drones, and rockets.”
“You’re an Islamophobe. 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,” Mayor Abdullah Hammoud raged in reply.
The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan Abdullah Hammoud calls a Christian resident an “Islamophobe” and yells at him to get out for opposing the city’s decision to name a street after jihadist supporter named Osama Siblani, who has praised terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/ilxJcu9All
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ABOUT THIS MAYOR: Abdullah Hammoud, 35, was born in Dearborn to a a Lebanese Shia Muslim family. He is the first Muslim mayor of Dearborn, was elected in November 2021 and assumed office in January 2022.
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