Posted on 09/18/2026 2:38:59 PM PDT by devane617
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges the city of Dearborn spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on public displays celebrating Muslim holidays while ignoring a Christian resident’s repeated requests for Easter and Passover recognition.
Margot Cleveland, a journalist with The Federalist, filed a civil rights lawsuit with the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) against the city of Dearborn and Democratic Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, alleging the city violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, including protections involving religious establishment, free speech and equal protection.
"The City of Dearborn spent taxpayer money to light up its streets and parks for Ramadan while stonewalling a resident who simply asked that Easter, Passover, and other Christian and Jewish holy days be treated the same way," Robert J. Muise, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, said in a statement. "That is a straightforward Establishment Clause violation, and the retaliation our client faced for speaking up about it only compounds the constitutional harm."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Fight them!
Forget it, Margot. It’s Dearbornistan.
For many years Dearborn had one of the best Christmas decoration displays in the state if not the country. People would drive to see it. We have lost so much it is depressing. Now you have to be of a certain age to even know this. Thank you rats and losers like Bush.
“Mayor Abdullah Hammoud“
I know this is no hot take, but there’s the problem right there. I see the names of these mayors and other city and state officials and it is becoming more and more rare to read or hear and American name anymore.
If I sound like Archie Bunker I really couldn’t give two shits anymore.
Henry Ford held anti-semitism views.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#
In 1918, Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent.[84] In early 1920, Ford procured a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamously antisemitic fabricated text. He instructed the editors at the Independent to adapt the material in the Protocols to appeal to American audiences.[85][86] Later in 1920, Ford's paper began publishing a series of articles in the paper, claiming a vast Jewish conspiracy was affecting America.[87] The series ran in 91 issues. Every Ford dealership nationwide was required to carry the paper and distribute it to its customers. Ford later bound the articles into four volumes entitled The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, which was translated into multiple languages and distributed widely across the US and Europe,[88][89] selling more than 500,000 copies.[90] The International Jew blamed nearly all the troubles it saw in American society on Jews.[87]
Henry Ford hired Arab immigrants to work at his factories, particularly during the early 20th century.
Bravo. Good history about Henry Ford. He is much to be admired. His one tiny fault was hiring one man from Yemen. That one man brought several wives, a leader, and now look at the area. We need to kick out the Saracens from North America and Europe and doing so is not difficult. Simply take them to airports and fly them to Yemen.
Although consisting of only a handful of coastline cities, Yemen was once Christian.
Muslim holiday on display.
Interesting. Ford’s anti semitism is a nearly buried component of who the man was. It has little to do with why Dearborn has fallen however.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.