Anti-Israel protesters chanted both “death to Israel” and “death to America” at a rally in Michigan on Friday.
The rally featured rounds of chants led by local activist Tarek Bazzi and the local imam.
Bazzi prompted the crowd to break into calls for “death to America” after speaking about former Iranian ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the beginning of al-Quds Day, a celebration on the last Friday of Ramadan during which they profess their support for a “free Palestine” and opposition to Israel’s existence.
Within hours of this event, President Biden was demanding Israel withdraw from Gaza.
Ceasefire. Or else.
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Bazzi says, “We have been asked in the past: ‘Why are our priests on the international al-Quds Day are [sic] so anti-America? Why don’t we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about America?’ Gaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-America because it’s the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities,” as chants of “death to America” continued in the background.
“Imam Kohomeini, who declared International al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shots upon the head of America,” Bazzi explained.
Speaking of Israel, Bazzi said the Jewish state “does not deserve to exist.”
He said (verbatim), “When these fools as us if Israel has the right to exist,” he said, “the chant ‘death to Israel’ has become the most logical chant across the world today.”
Speakers at the rally told the mostly Muslim crowd, "America Is One of the 'Rottenest Countries' on Earth; Israel Is ISIS, Nazis, a Cancer..."
At International Al-Quds Day Rally in Dearborn, Michigan Protesters Chant “Death to America!”; Speakers at the Rally: America Is One of the “Rottenest Countries” on Earth; Israel Is ISIS, Nazis, a Cancer pic.twitter.com/B6hMlaKfi5
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 7, 2024
The chanting took place last Friday on International Quds Day, held to support Palestine and oppose Israel's war on Hamas, in Dearborn, Michigan, which is represented by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the only Palestinian American member of Congress.
The city was notoriously dubbed "America's Jihad Capital" in a commentary for The Wall Street Journal by MEMRI's executive director, Steven Stalinsky.
MEMRI is an organization that translates and publishes news the so-called "legacy" news misses, attempts to rewrite to advance their far-Left agenda or simply attempts to erase.
Three days after Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, anti-Israel demonstrators pack the Ford Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan.
The Wall Street Journal commentary began with this:
Thousands march in support of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Protesters, many with kaffiyehs covering their faces, shout “Intifada, intifada,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “America is a terrorist state.” Local imams give fiery antisemitic sermons. This isn’t the Middle East. It’s the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Mich.
Almost immediately after Oct. 7, and long before Israel began its ground offensive in Gaza, people were celebrating the horrific events of that day in pro-Hamas rallies and marches throughout Dearborn. A local headline describing an Oct. 10 event at the Ford Performing Arts Center read “Michigan rally cheers Hamas attack.” Imam Imran Salha of Dearborn’s Islamic Center of Detroit told the crowd that Israel’s past actions have put “fire in our hearts that will burn that state”—Israel— “until its demise.” In May 2023, Mr. Salha had urged his congregation to say “amen” in agreement with his prayer that Allah “eradicate from existence” the “sick, disgusting Zionist regime.” In October 2022, according to the Washington Free Beacon, his organization received $150,000 in funding from the Homeland Security Department’s nonprofit security grants program.
At another rally, held Oct. 14 in front of the Henry Ford Centennial Library, Imam Usama Abdulghani also didn’t hide his support for Hamas’s terrorist actions. The American-born, Iranian-educated Shiite Islamic scholar called Oct. 7 “one of the days of God” and a “miracle come true.” He described the attackers as “honorable.” He said they were “lions” defending “the entire nation of Muhammad the messenger.”
Steven Stalinsky also wrote this in his WSJ commentary:
Ahmad Musa Jibril is perhaps the most influential English-speaking jihadi sheik. From his home in Dearborn he promotes holy war to his tens of thousands of followers on Twitter and Telegram. On Oct. 7, the day Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took almost 200 hostage, a Twitter account bearing his name retweeted a post that said, “The hearts haven’t been overjoyed like this in so long.” This account also posted a tweet imploring Allah to “purify the land from the aggression of the apes, swines, and hypocrites.” He later recorded a video calling on Muslims in the West to start normalizing the term “jihad” by using it frequently “on your social media, and in the mosques.” He has called President Biden a “senile pharaoh.”
A recent commemoration, Stalinskij notes, included poetry and praise, along with claims about ISIS being operated by both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Mossad. Imam Abdulghani used his remarks to express his “warmest congratulations” to “our very special leader, Imam Khamenei”—essentially declaring allegiance to the Iranian ayatollah who regularly calls for the destruction of the U.S.
RE the "senile pharaoh."
Open support for Hamas is spreading. Since Oct. 7, similar protests have occurred in major American cities featuring pro-jihadist imagery, chants, and slogans. Rallies are now also expressing support for the Iran-backed Houthis, who have been lobbing missiles at Israel and trying to sink commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
What’s happening in Dearborn isn’t simply a political problem for Democrats. It’s potentially a national security issue affecting all Americans.
The "senile pharaoh" has spoken.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that it had withdrawn its forces from southern Gaza, following a demand from U.S. President Joe Biden last week for an “immediate ceasefire.” Hamas declared victory on the news.
The decision, coming on the day Israelis marked six months since the October 7 attack, came as a surprise to the Israelis.
Takeaway
Recently, Muslims in Dearborn and across America have been warning President Biden and his people that unless he took decisive action against Israel, they would withhold their vote for him in November and vote "uncommitted."
Apparently, Muslims have begun to dictate some of Biden's foreign policies. We could ask, "How far will he go down this path? Will he sell out our country for a vote?"
If he and the far-left will toss Israel under the bus, will he do the same to biblical Christians in America?
John Adams said, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
He was talking about biblical morality and Christianity. Not other religions and other ideologies.
On June 28,1813 Adams said, "Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty, are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane System."
As Ben Franklin stepped from the room where he and other Founders of our country had just completed writing our Constitution, he was asked, "What kind of country have you given us?
He answered, "A Republic, if you can keep it."
The question today is, "Will we keep it?" We can, if we will to do so with God's help.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Bold. Be Faithful. Be Prayerful.