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Michigan Muslims face reality of Trump victory: 'I pray for our community'
The Guardian ^ | 9 Nov 2016 | Ryan Felton

Posted on 11/09/2016 5:32:26 AM PST by Cronos

For the city of Dearborn, Michigan, where one-third of the city’s 96,000 residents are of Arab descent, the presidency of Donald Trump is almost certain to be volatile and unpredictable.

Just after 2.40am on Wednesday, when the election was called for the Republican nominee, Muzammil Ahmed, the chairman of the Michigan Muslim Community Council who attended an election watch party in Dearborn Tuesday night, tried to reach for a silver lining.

“Our country has made a choice of a very flawed and unpredictable candidate,” Ahmed told the Guardian. “Although I’m deeply worried about our future, our community is not giving up the fight.”

... Earlier, as midnight approached in the Detroit suburb, organizers of an election watch party at the Arab American Museum asked Suhaib Hashem to read a prayer aloud from the Qur’an. When the results showed a victory was close for Trump, the aspiring engineering college student said the gesture was needed, given the circumstances.

...“I’m moving to Canada, I’m serious,” Ahmed said. “I don’t want him around. He’s not good for us.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; dearborn; dearbornistan; immigration; mi2016; muslimamericans; trump2016; trumpwins
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To: Cronos

They will prosper like they never prospered before. They will still hate Trump but in their hearts they know he is right about the Wahhabi inspired perversion of Islam.


41 posted on 11/09/2016 5:54:31 AM PST by allendale
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To: Cronos

Someone let him know that “praying” to Satan....doesn’t work


42 posted on 11/09/2016 5:56:12 AM PST by montag813
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To: Cronos

They need to thank Allah that Trump is elected.


43 posted on 11/09/2016 5:56:29 AM PST by rovenstinez (Mso)
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To: Cronos
I am from Detroit originally.

Dearborn Michigan used to be called, “Little Beirut” and that is fine as long as you are a LOYAL American Muslim and OPENLY reject Radical Islam's message to your dying breath.

IF, on the other hand, you remain silent in the face of ongoing slaughter, (no, not an Israeli soldier shoving a POS Palestinian terrorist) but your brothers and sisters killing and maiming in the name of Allah all over the planet every day of every hour, then get the hell out and go back to your 7th century Muslim hell holes.

44 posted on 11/09/2016 5:56:39 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Cronos

Pray hard, you POS. Your boot is coming off our necks very soon.


45 posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:08 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Cronos

You pray for your community but we pray for all men. See a difference?


46 posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:35 AM PST by McCarthysGhost
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To: jsanders2001

I’m hoping that many illegals will start self-deporting out of fear of what will happen when Trump takes office.

God, let it be so.....


47 posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:52 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Cronos

Elections have consequences.
Someone said that. I forget who.
Truth be told, they don’t have anything to worry about though.


48 posted on 11/09/2016 6:00:16 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: metmom

Looking for an easier mark.


49 posted on 11/09/2016 6:01:49 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Cronos

I’ll bet a third to half of Dearborn Arabs voted for Trump and didn’t tell anyone.


50 posted on 11/09/2016 6:02:39 AM PST by Chengdu54
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To: Cronos

Live in the USA, abide by the laws of the USA = No problem.

Live in the USA and try to live by your OWN sharia law and just plain lawlessness = you got something to worry about now, pal.


51 posted on 11/09/2016 6:04:32 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: Cronos

They’ve got nothing to worry about. Unless they’ve broken the law somehow.


52 posted on 11/09/2016 6:06:50 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Cronos
“Our country has made a choice of a very flawed and unpredictable candidate,” Ahmed told the Guardian.

First of all...Ahmed, it ain't your country.

Your country is one of pedophiles, murdering jihadists, misogynist assholes and third world shitholery.

Pack your bags, pick up your koran (you'll need some ass wipe) and be on your way...free passage (one way, of course) back to whatever cesspool you oozed from.

53 posted on 11/09/2016 6:08:14 AM PST by OldSmaj (America has spoken. The Hildebeest is officially a !$%&!. Now, impeach the kenyan.)
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To: Arm_Bears

I’ll take “go back to where you came from” Alex, for $500!


54 posted on 11/09/2016 6:09:09 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Caipirabob

We need to change the laws to ensure that happens!


55 posted on 11/09/2016 6:12:47 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Cronos

There’s no room for Mohammadan hate in America, or on Earth.


56 posted on 11/09/2016 6:26:12 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Cronos

Get the hell out. If you would act like normal human beings and stop the violence, I could put up with your weird ways of praying.
Maybe now you will discourage your young men from turning into terrorists, and instead turn in those who get radicalized to the FBI.


57 posted on 11/09/2016 6:31:57 AM PST by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: Cronos

“Our country has made a choice of a very flawed and unpredictable candidate,” Ahmed told the Guardian.”

No, that was Hillary. She lost


58 posted on 11/09/2016 6:32:13 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Cronos
'I pray for our community'

And I pray for mine.

59 posted on 11/09/2016 6:33:21 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: rktman

no, they should go to their holy land of saudia. Leave Syria to the Christians and Allawis. Ditto for Liban


60 posted on 11/09/2016 9:00:04 PM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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