Posted on 12/03/2025 8:19:37 PM PST by Morgana
Dearborn, Michigan, was back in the national spotlight last month after a far-right protest spiraled into street clashes, a near-Quran burning, and the latest debate about religion, identity and political extremism in America's largest Muslim-majority city.
The drama began when Jake Lang – a January 6 rioter, newly pardoned by Donald Trump, and now a long-shot Republican US Senate candidate in Florida – arrived in Dearborn with an entourage, cameras, and a self-styled 'anti-Sharia' crusade.
He carried bacon in one hand and a Quran in the other, marching through the city center in combat gear and trolling locals, daring them to confront him. They did.
A series of scuffles broke out almost immediately. Shouts filled the air. Police monitored from a distance as Lang taunted counter-protesters and threatened to burn the Quran for the cameras.
One counter-protester finally snapped, landing a punch on the side of Lang's face. Lang laughed it off, telling reporters he had been 'punched harder by Capitol police officer ladies,' as the assailant darted across a busy street and vanished.
The skirmishes continued as Lang tried several times to light the Quran on fire. Video shared online shows him flicking a lighter beneath the holy book, only for counter-protesters to smack it out of his hands again and again.
At one point, he tapped the Quran with a slab of bacon – a provocative and offensive gesture – until a counter-protester snatched the book entirely and sprinted away.
Lang pressed on with his message. He told reporters and later a Dearborn city council meeting that white Americans were being 'outbred' by immigrants, warned that 'there can be no room for sharia law' in the US.
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If he’d soak the Koran in kerosene it would light a lot easier...and the bacon would give it a kind of down home fragrance.
Or even lighter fluid.
On a base level, all those “wind them up” antics are deeply satisfying for most Americans, but it really does nothing but create a public incident.
If this guy is serious about running for public office, he has to start thinking smarter and longer term.
He marched into their territory, he and his camera crew could have been quickly outnumbered by the Muslim locals.
I will say: Islam is a death cult. Allah is Satan. The Quaran is a cursed book and those who read it and believe it are compelled to commit theft, misogyny, murder, genocide rape.
There is no room for a 7th century troglodytes in Western Civilization.
To hell with Islam and all who serve and bow down to the demon Allah.
He could have dropped a deuce and used it…. Well, you get my point.
“The drama began when Jake Lang...” Jake, dude, I just would have given them a Christmas ham.
The gloves had to come off at some point. Followers of islam are satanic and deserve no accommodation. These subhuman animals will never assimilate.
He should have tore the pages out of the Quran, put them under a grill. lit them on fire and took a cast iron fry pan on the grill with the bacon. If any one of the Muslim wing nuts tried to stop him, he had the hot cast iron pan to wack them in the head.
As my retired military relatives would say, OUTstanding.
Why is so much happening too close to me in Michigan?
Slotkin here. Rashida Tlaib. Largest mosque in North America.
Largest Arab population in the United States including first majority Arab population and one of two Michigan cities with full Arab mayor and council control (Dearborn and Hamtramck).
November 3rd FBI arrests for an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot at residences in Dearborn and a storage unit in nearby Inkster, Michigan.
Our cup runneth over. With trouble.
Did you go to the Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit, down Woodward Blvd? I used to do that a few decades ago.
You might be much too far away from downtown though.
They used to have the best marching bands from all over the state. The asphalt was a-vibrating with drumbeats.
I never attended one of them growing up (age 79).
I have proudly and defiantly boycotted the City of Detroit since 1975. Never set foot even for the many sports and entertainment events I missed.
Lang certainly was looking for trouble but at least he has style.
My thoughts exactly.
Exactly.
That’s the truth.
Jake from State Farm?
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