A city in Michigan where the Muslim mayor once told a Christian that he was unwelcome to live there now is being sued, for using taxpayer funded resources to make the city “a hostile place for Christians and Jews.”
That actually has been the practice of Muslims for centuries, to invade a nation, take control, then then impose restrictions that make Christians and Jews second-class citizens, even imposing what they call a jizya tax on non-Muslims.
The current fight is in Dearborn, Michigan, which now essentially is a Muslim-run, Muslim-oriented, Muslim-majority location.
A report at the Washington Stand explains the city is being sued for refusing to publicly acknowledge Christian and Jewish holidays while “facilitating” Ramadan festivities.
It is Margot Cleveland, a senior legal correspondent at The Federalist and resident of Dearborn, who is suing Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud and the city, the report said.
He is violating the First Amendment by posting Muslim symbols in public displays but not Christian or Jewish equivalents, the filing charges.
Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, explained the consequences to the city are horrific.
“It’s the result of mass migration of Muslims and how that slowly transforms a society. The city of Dearborn went from displaying a nativity scene, to removing the nativity scene, to paying for Mayor Abdullah Hammoud’s Ramadan celebrations and displaying ‘Ramadan Kareem’ banners on its lightposts. It is beyond scandalous for an American city to give Islam overt preferential treatment. This is another reminder of why elections matter,” Del Turco confirmed.
The publication revealed Cleveland reports having seen “Ramadan Kareem” banners spread throughout the city leading up to the 2025 Easter holiday.
“I was picking up pizza in downtown Dearborn. When I went down the boulevard, up and down the street were ‘Ramadan Kareem’ (generous Ramadan) banners, which is the equivalent of a happy or blessed Ramadan,” Cleveland told Fox News Digital. “This was the fourth week of Lent. We had Easter coming up in two weeks, and Passover was a week away. I was shocked, and then I saw the display all by itself — again, the crescent moon.”
She asked city officials about symbols for holidays of other faiths and they refused to respond, the report said.
She accused Hammoud of making Islam the city’s “preferred religion.”
Her investigative work later uncovered worse:
“Behind the scenes, Mayor Hammoud advanced his goals by using city resources and his Dearborn email account to invite select members of the community to an Iftar celebration, documents revealed. Observing and engaging in Iftar is an Islamic religious exercise: Iftar symbolizes obedience to Allah’s command. Muslims refrain from food, drink, and other physical needs from dawn until sunset, and Iftar is the moment when this fast ends for the day,” Cleveland explained.
“Other FOIA documents revealed that the police department planned to sell Ramadan t-shirts, embossed with the Dearborn police shield, a crescent moon, and the words ‘Ramadan Kareem,’” she added.
She said her requests for fairness were rejected.
“I have not asked the city not to celebrate Ramadan,” she told Fox. “What I’ve asked is that the city treat Christians and Jews equally. Put up Passover banners, Easter banners, put up a Star of David, put up a cross, do something. And throw in some patriotic symbols to show we are one Dearborn, one country where all faiths are represented equally. That has not been done.”
It was Christian pastor Ted Baram who was targeted by the mayor’s anti-Christian agenda.
He spoke out against renaming a street in Dearborn after Osama Siblani, a public supporter of the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Hammoud responded: “[T]he best suggestion I have for you is to not drive on Warren Avenue or to close your eyes while you’re doing it. … I think it’s quite hypocritical [that] you’re approaching this podium when you yourself have videos on YouTube standing in front of my mosque saying the cruelest of things about Muslims, about the religion of Islam, because you are a bigot and you are a racist and you are an Islamophobe.
“And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.”
Cleveland’s lawsuit is being handled by the American Freedom Law Center.
