“Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here.”
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said that to a Christian pastor at a city council meeting last year. The pastor’s offense was objecting to the renaming of a street in Dearborn for Osama Siblani, a local publisher with a long public record of support for Hezbollah and Hamas. The mayor added that the day the pastor moved out, he would “launch a parade.”