Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:10:55 am
This is the Associated Press video report on an FBI raid in the Detroit area that resulted in a shootout, in which the leader of an extremist Sunni group was killed. [Video] UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:44:34 am: A more detailed video from CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group seeking Islamic state. [Video] UPDATE ...

Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:40:35 pm
The Saudi-funded, Hamas-linked radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations is unhappy with Barack Obama—because he’s not doing enough about a nonexistent invented “phobia:” Obama aides grilled in Dearborn. And because he says he supports Israel. They’re really hoping that Obama will be the one who ...

Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:22:14 am
An extended defense of Dearborn Arab-Americans who support the terrorist group Hizballah, by a Daily Kos front page writer: Daily Kos: McCain, Hezbollah, Arab-Americans and Bigots. As Tapper points out, Jawad has said things about Hezbollah that make it sound less sinister than one would think a group would be ...

Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:49:23 am
Big LGF kudos to John McCain for dumping an open Hizballah supporter from his Michigan Finance Committee; Debbie Schlussel has the details. Ali Jawad and his company, Armada Oil, were convicted of insurance and mail fraud in federal court and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution ...

Sun, Nov 4, 2007 at 9:27:29 am
Debbie Schlussel has an interesting post with the background story on an antisemitic, pro-Palestinian flag and banner that’s been flying from a house in Dearborn, Michigan.

Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 9:48:22 am
Here’s Debbie Schlussel in the New York Post, with still more evidence that way too many people in our government are either profoundly unserious about the threat from Islamic terrorism, or profoundly clueless: Border Cop Bungles. October 16, 2007 — JULIE Myers, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Cus ...

Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 8:53:00 am
In response to criticism over his choice of Spence Abraham, the Fred Thompson campaign announced that he had hired a new campaign manager. But it looks like the former lobbyist who worked closely with Islamist front groups is still there: DEARBORN — Few fumbles, few stumbles. He even knew the ...

Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:31:33 am
Officials in Dearborn deliberately withheld information about Hussein Zorkot, arrested with a loaded AK-47 and camouflage paint—because they were afraid of “stirring anti-Muslim sentiments” and “fanning the flames of terrorism.” This is bad craziness. Hussein Zorkot is an open supporter of Hizballah. His web site has jihad music with sounds of explosions, ...

Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:36:52 am
Here’s a video update on the case of Hussein Zorkot in Dearborn, Michigan, arrested with a loaded AK-47, wearing camouflage paint. [Video] Understatement of the week, from the anchorwoman: “Zorkot’s own web site is also being scrutinized. Some of what’s on it indicates he’s sympathetic to Hesbullah.” No kidding.

Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 7:53:45 am
In Dearborn, police arrested a Muslim yesterday dressed in black clothing with camouflage paint, carrying an AK-47. DEARBORN - Houssein Zorkot, a 26-year-old Dearborn resident, was arraigned Tuesday in 19th District Court on multiple felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent — a five-year felony. Zorkot, a third-year ...

Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 9:14:59 am
Another Islamic charity goes on the designated terrorist list—the “Goodwill Charitable Organization” in Dearborn, Michigan, a front for Hizballah’s “Martyrs Foundation:” US Treasury bans dealings with Hezbollah supporters. WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday it has moved to block financing to Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah ...

Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 9:21:14 am
The American Civil Liberties Union has given their blessing to the public funding of Islamic footbaths at the University of Michigan, to let Muslims wash their feet before prayers. The ACLU says it has nothing to do with religion. This pleases CAIR greatly, because now the Islamic community won’t have to pay ...

Tue, May 22, 2007 at 7:21:57 pm
The Arab American News warns its Islamic readers to watch out for a violent backlash that never comes, in the wake of another thwarted Islamic terror plot. DEARBORN — The Muslim Public Affairs Council has issued an urgent advisory to all mosques and Muslim community centers across the nation to secure ...

Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:42:25 am
They always come back, and yesterday the woman whose small claims case was thrown out when she refused to remove her face mask filed suit against the judge: Muslim sues judge who barred veil. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A Muslim woman who was told she had to remove her veil if ...

Tue, Feb 6, 2007 at 8:45:43 am
Debbie Schlussel’s New York Post article today is on the hate-spewing, terror-supporting Islamic cleric chosen by the Democratic National Committee to lead the invocation at its winter meeting: An Ugly Invocation. Apart from this article, the mainstream media have absolutely no interest in this story; but it really is shocking how ...

Fri, Feb 2, 2007 at 3:20:18 pm
The convocation for the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting was delivered today by Shi’ite Imam Husham Al-Husainy, of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center in Dearborn, Michigan, and it’s amazing what this spiritual leader managed to get away with saying, in front of America’s Democrat leadership: Video: Imam prays to stop ...

Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 4:58:28 pm
The Fox News documentary Hezbollah Inside America is starting in just a few minutes. Here’s an open thread... UPDATE at 1/20/07 6:00:45 pm: I have to say congrats to Fox News and David Asman on this one; an excellent show with new information, including a memorable interview with a weeping deported Hizballah ...

Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:54:50 pm
The cave-in of Northwest Airlines is quick, and complete: Northwest apologizes, vows to reimburse Muslims barred from flight. (Hat tip: shug.) DEARBORN — Reacting swiftly to allegations of discrimination, Northwest Airlines apologized to a group of 40 Muslims today for barring them from a plane in Germany on their return trip ...

Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 9:59:17 am
The Detroit News publishes an op-ed by Shi’ite terror apologist Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, the former spiritual leader of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iranian navy (a fact the Detroit News doesn’t mention), about the recent incidents of Islamic sectarian violence in Dearborn, Michigan: Metro Muslims must stop distrust, unite to save faith. It’s ...

Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:47:53 am
The Council on American Islamic Relations set up a Grievance Theater Hotline to solicit complaints about airlines from Muslims traveling to Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage. Apparently, the hotline served its purpose. The next episode of the grievance theater will feature 40 Muslims who showed up 20 minutes before their flight ...

Tue, Jan 9, 2007 at 5:57:59 pm
On Sunday, when three Middle Eastern men were detained under suspicious circumstances and without proper ID at the Port of Miami, I wrote: UPDATE at 1/7/07 1:50:14 pm: If it turns out to be a false alarm, expect the Council on American Islamic Relations to jump all over it as another case ...

Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 8:36:37 am
Speaking in Dearborn, Michigan (a center of radical Islam and support for Hizballah, as documented many times at LGF), in front of a crowd chanting “Allahu Akbar,” Rep. Keith Ellison said that Muslim activism is part of Allah’s plan to teach justice and tolerance to the United States: 1st Muslim ...

Thu, Dec 7, 2006 at 6:40:57 pm
Media reports about a Muslim woman who complained of religious discrimination at her gym were universally vague about the particulars of the case. Most of the articles summed it up like this: ...her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron... But Janet Levy’s piece in FrontPage has some interesting additional ...

Tue, Dec 5, 2006 at 8:49:59 am
This is getting ridiculous. Muslim woman cites gym after interrupted prayer. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) DEARBORN — Fitness USA, a gym chain, is investigating an alleged civil rights violation involving a local Muslim woman who says her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron, and that her complaint to management ...

Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 1:22:22 pm
An Investor’s Business Daily editorial sounds the alarm about the possible new chairman of the House Judiciary Committtee, John Conyers: John Conyers And The Muslim Caucus. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Congress: The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’s just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to ...