The Muslim mayor of Dearborn tells Christian the resident that he is not welcome here ‘

The governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, remained silent for days after a controversy in Dearborn, where the city’s Muslim mayor scolded a Christian resident who opposed new signaling panels in honor of a publisher of Arab-American newspapers known for the previous statements considered to be sympathetic to the terrorists.

Fox News Digital attempted to reach the office and the staff of Whitmer on Wednesday, a week after the Detroit Free Press reported for the first time the DEARBORN Meeting Kerfuffle.

Mayor Abdullah Hammoud would have told the resident Ted Barham that he was “not welcome here” and that if Barham had left the city, where about 40% of the population is Muslim, he would hold a parade.

The Muslim mayor of Dearborn told Christian that he is not “welcome” in the debate on the honor of the pro-terror Arabic chief

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer looks at President Donald Trump signs executive decrees in the White House Oval Office on April 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Barham expressed his concern in front of the city in honor of the newspaper publisher Osama Siblani, saying that renamed the streets for the controversial figure is likely to call them “Hezbollah Street” and “Hamas Street”.

Hammoud accused Barham of not believing in “coexistence” and advised him to close his eyes if he rolled along the avenue where signs commemorating Siblani were installed.

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Barham would also have said that Siblani may have done good to the Dearborn community via his newspaper, but supported his criticisms and read the past quotes from man born in Lebanon, according to the Free Press.

Certain previous declarations cataloged by Memri, the Middle East Media Research Institute, quote Siblani as claiming that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and that Hezbollah would have – in 2024 – “Take care of work” with regard to demonstrators who sang “death in Israel”.

According to MemriSiblani claimed the blood of the jihadists at the time “to irrigate the land of Palestine”.

In 2006, Siblani was quoted in the media saying: “If the FBI wanted to come after those who support the resistance carried out by Hezbollah, then they would better bring a bus fleet. I, for my part, would be ready to go to prison”, according to the documentation of the anti-deficiency league.

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Siblani told Free Press that he did not know Barham – who had said that he lived before in the Palestinian territories – and that his comments cited by the resident “was cited (via) pieces” and were removed from his context.

He also criticized Memri, co -founded by a former intelligence official in Jerusalem, for having allegedly engaged the same practice.