Dearborn mayor tells Christian minister 'not welcome' after street-naming protest

American Thinker ^ | 21 Sep, 2025 | Susan Quinn

[MtnClimber]

While we are busy fighting with each other in this country (Left and Right), you may not have noticed that one Muslim-dominant community in Michigan is trying to impose its values on its residents and destroy our own:

A street once named to honor a Revolutionary War hero has now been partly rebranded for a man critics link to Hezbollah. That culture clash came to a boil not just on the pavement but inside Dearborn’s city hall on Wednesday, September 10 – where the mayor stunned residents by telling a local taxpayer he wasn’t welcome in his own hometown after the man criticized the renaming of a portion of Warren Avenue to honor a controversial figure in Arab-American culture, Osama Siblani. (Michigan News Source.)

The controversy arose because Edward “Ted” Barham spoke out at a city council meeting, protesting that signage on two intersections was changed to honor Siblani. At the council meeting, Mr. Barham read from a speech given by Siblani, publisher of Arab American News:

‘We are the Arabs who are going to lift Palestinians all the way to victory whether 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 fight with planes, drones, and rockets.’ Barham told council members, ‘It sounds like he could be inciting violence in Michigan.’

Siblani has a long record of controversial remarks. In 2003 he told the Washington Post, ‘Mr. Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters.’ (Fox News)

[Robe]

Not as long as Mr Smith and Mr Wesson live in my closet !

[Vaduz]

We are the Arabs

LOOK OUT

[Rappini]

That’s what happens when you are to conservative and allow them positions in Government affairs city and state. Now all the Christians have to to is get off their A$$ and vote them out in the next election.

[Liz]

Tax-paying Chiistian Edward “Ted” Barham spoke out at a city council meeting, protesting that signage on two intersections was changed to honor Arab terrorist, Siblani. At the council meeting, Mr. Barham read from a speech given by Siblani, publisher of Arab American News:

Siblani: ‘We are the Arabs who are going to lift Palestinians all the way to victory whether 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 fight with planes, drones, and rockets.’

Christian Barham told council members, ‘It sounds like Siblani could be inciting violence in Michigan.’