Given the reporter's note that he was surprised there was an osama on the basketball team, my guess is Muslims aren't too plentiful in Dearborn, but I'm not form there, so I can't say for sure. The kid profield here has the same name, same town, same religion, and is the same age. Sure as hell seems like the same guy.
Dearborn is probably the most Muslim city in America; the fact actually gets quite a few comments here on Free Republic.
Excerpts from:
All-American Terrorists: How Dearbornistan Boys Went From Football Field to Islamic Terror; TracFone Detonators & Passenger Lists
By Debbie Schlussel
"...Take Ali Houssaiky of Dearborn, Michigan, currently residing in a holding cell in an Ohio jail.
...Osma Sabhi Abulhassan & Ali Houssaiky
In 2003, he was an Honorable Mention on the Michigan Class-A All-State Football Team. The Fordson High School Football Team he co-captained was hailed in USA Today for its observance of Ramadan fasting. In 2004, he got a full scholarship to play football at Grand Valley State University. And now in 2006, this All-American running back is a...They admitted to buying over 600 pay-as-you-go TracFone cellphones, removing the chips, and selling them to their "boss" for $5 (each) over the cost of the phones. The chips are used in bombs by Islamic terrorist groups and have been used to detonate many carbombs. And their "boss" is the subject of an open investigation by the FBI.
Washington County, Ohio Sheriff Larry Mincks--whose men arrested the two--says there are frequent visits to the area by Middle Eastern men driving rental cars usually from Michigan or Virginia, "trying to purchase as many TracFones as they can," and shipping them to the Middle East. Now, I know why it's so hard for me to find a TracFone. Store clerks at CVS et al say Arabs all over the Detroit area have been buying them out in bulk amounts. After an arraignment hearing in an Ohio courtroom, Houssaiky shouted to reporters that he was "doing my job." Just what was his "job"? Do Homeland Security and the FBI want to face facts that these are not the only two Muslim All-American boys raised in this country performing that "job"?
Houssaiky's alma mater, Dearborn's Fordson High School, is the most Muslim populated public high school in America. Hate is prevalent in the tax-funded school, and many of its students have been participating in the pro-Hezbollah rallies in town. The school is "Hezbollah High." Did Houssaiky learn it is okay to participate in this "job" from his peers there? From his mosque? Or some other Dearbornistan institution?
In the face of mounting evidence against her brother, Diana Houssaiky claims the arrest of her brother is discrimination because "his name is Ali and his friends name is Osma." Actually, the discrimination is that Washington County, Ohio Deputy Sheriffs--instead of immediately cuffing the potential terrorists--gave them bottled water and let them sit in the grass to drink it.
The Houssaiky family has called the Michigan American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee to complain about the arrest and ensuing investigation. The organization, headed by "former" Islamic terrorist and FBI award revokee Imad Hamad, is telling people "not to rush to judgment."
...600 cellphone chips. A boss under investigation by the FBI. $10,000 in cash. Passenger lists from flights and info on airport security checkpoints. Lying to police about it. They hail from Dearborn, home to thousands of Hezbollah-supporting Islamists. And we are not supposed to "rush to judgment"?
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