Muslim activists who take the side of Palestinian terrorists and then cry about Islamophobia when people notice have no one to blame but themselves and their dishonest bait-and-switch.
The outrage this time comes from Dearborn, Michigan, which was described in the headline of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece as “America’s Jihad Capital.” Dearborn is an Arab American-majority suburb of Detroit, and so, naturally, this brought condemnations from several corners of liberal media and politicians. Dearborn’s mayor called the piece “bigoted” and “Islamophobic,” and President Joe Biden condemned the piece and said it could lead to “anti-Arab hate.”
The problem, though, is that beyond the inflammatory headline, all the piece does is describe events in Dearborn. For example, it describes hundreds of people gathering in Dearborn shortly after the Oct. 7 massacre to celebrate the attack. It lists several other similar events and protests and highlights several community leaders who cheered the attacks. Mayor Abdullah Hammoud described Israel killing the terrorists that slaughtered 1,200 civilians as “tyrants murdering our families.”
The Wall Street Journal piece did not do anything groundbreaking or shocking. It simply reported on events in Dearborn and observed what some of us had warned about already: Muslim activists were tying their identities to the terrorists who slaughtered Israeli (and American) civilians. That extends to Hammoud, who rejected a meeting with Biden because Biden isn’t condemning the Jews for fighting the terrorists who hate that they exist. The Washington Post detailed just last week how Dearborn residents wanted to punish Biden for his tepid support of Israel in the face of an existential terrorist threat.
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In other words, the best way to not be labeled “America’s Jihad Capital” is to not be willing to go to the mat for terrorists who want to erase Israel off the map and who defy ceasefire agreements and reject the ceasefire proposals that Israel has made. You do not get to be sympathetic to terrorists, whether intentionally or through your own biases and mind-numbing ignorance, and then cry foul when someone notices that your community is sympathetic to terrorists.
It is not “Islamophobia” or bigotry to notice that a lot of people in one city, including the mayor and prominent city leaders, are siding with Hamas terrorists and falsely accusing the victims of a terrorist massacre of war crimes. The takeaway should not be how “Islamophobic” people are for noticing terrorist apologia. It should be how alarming it is that so many people are siding with terrorists over people whom the terrorists want to slaughter.
