I don’t give a RIP about being politically correct. Here’s the truth: America was founded on CHRISTIAN values.
— Coach Tommy Tuberville (@SenTuberville) April 9, 2026
If you refuse to assimilate and follow our laws, love our country, and be a proud AMERICAN… then LEAVE.
We don’t want you here.https://t.co/dETXKcNAmw
If Senator Tuberville really wants to evict residents of our nation who don't love our country, he should have urged the deportation of the guy who on January 20, 2917 referred to "American carnage" and who on october 30, 2022 described the USA as "rigged, crooked, and evil." But no big mouths on the right said anything either time, and that fellow is President for a second time.
Here is where a liberal or progressive is to say "but immigrants love this country even more than do native-born Americans." But that's not the point. If there were such a thing as an effective loyalty test, Donald Trump would have been banished to the golf courses of Scotland long ago.
So Tuberman is a bigoted extremist, longing to deport persons practicing an unacceptable religion. He hates Muslims because they're Muslims. However, there are Muslims who hate people because they're not Muslim. Note the
September 23, 2025 meeting of Dearborn’s City Council, where first-term Mayor Abdullah Hammoud refused to apologize for trying to bully Christian evangelist Ted Barham into leaving the city at the previous city council meeting on September 9, 2025. Barham attracted the mayor’s ire at that meeting by complaining about the naming of a busy intersection after a Hammoud supporter who, in addition to praising former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, once joked about sending Israeli Prime Minister the Benjamin Netanyahu “back to Poland.”
Not only did Hammoud, the mayor of a city with more than 100,000 residents—55 percent of whom are Muslim—fail to apologize for bullying Barham in a vain effort to get him to leave the city, not one council member offered a word of criticism of Hamas and Hezbollah after they were challenged to do so by one of the more than 100 audience members who showed up to attend the September 23 city council meeting.
“Do you definitively, unequivocally—by name—denounce Hamas and Hezbollah, or do you support them?” Dearborn resident Anthony Deegan asked the council members on September 23. They said nothing in response.
It doesn't seem as if asking for criticism of Hamas and Hezbollah is asking a great deal. Council members would not have to betray their principles. Or perhaps they would have because
With its silence, the council lent credence to Barham’s concerns about the naming of the intersection of Warren Avenue and Chase Road after Osama Siblani, the founding publisher of Arab American News. According to the ADL, Siblani told the Chicago Tribune in 2006 that, “If the FBI wants to come after those who support the resistance done by Hezbollah, then they better bring a fleet of buses. I for one would be willing to go to jail.”
Siblani’s gibe about needing a fleet of buses to arrest Hezbollah supporters in the region is no joke. In 2024, Dearborn hosted an Al Quds Day celebration during which protesters called for America and Israel’s destruction. Siblani has condemned chants calling for America’s destruction, but according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, he has legitimized an anti-American narrative to audiences in the Middle East. In 2024, he described U.S. efforts to drive Iran out of Syria as an attempt to steal the country’s oil. “America wants two things: To partition Syria and to keep the oil and gas resources,” he said.
Siblani, who now has a street named after him in a substantial American city, appears to be quite a character inasmuch as
In 1993, Siblani, a newspaper publisher, abandoned the principle of free speech during an appearance on Larry King’s show on CNN on which he condemned U.S. President Bill Clinton for meeting with Salman Rushdie for an hour. Rushdie was forced to live in hiding as the result of a fatwa calling for his murder issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. Khomeini issued the fatwa in response to the publication of Rushdie’s book, Satanic Verses. “When [Clinton] met with Salman Rushdie in the White House for one hour,” Siblani said, “it’s sending a message—The President’s thereby sending a message to the Islamic world that he condoned the insult of Islam, and that is something that should not have been done.”
By way of comparison, Siblani came to the defense of Al
Manar, described by National Review (NR) in 2006 as “a satellite television
channel operated, owned, and controlled by the Iranian-funded Hezbollah
terrorist network [that] was designated as a global terrorist entity.” NR
reports that Siblani “was quoted in the Washington Post as saying, ‘I disagree
with the State Department that it [Al-Manar] incites violence. … By that
standard, they should shut Fox News for inciting against Muslims.’”
After Barham strongly criticized naming a street after a supporter of Hezbollah, city councillor
interrupted Barham to declare, “I’m going to stop you because he’s not a violent person. You can interpret his words any way you want, but I will guarantee you he is not intending to incite violence anywhere in the world. … [W]e’re not going to allow personal attacks in our community.”
Well, of course he is, because the Mayor dwells in the sewer of deeply personal attacks. After Barham responded to the councillor
Eventually, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, a Shia Muslim whose family hails from Lebanon, weighed in, calling Barham, “a bigot,” “a racist,” and “an Islamophobe.” He didn’t stop there.
“I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here,” the mayor told Barham. “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 because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.” It was an astounding display of contempt from an elected official who had sworn to uphold the United States constitution when he was sworn in as mayor in 2022. Hammoud’s verbal attack was an attempt to use the language of coexistence and a narrative of Muslim victimhood to put an uppity non-Muslim in his place.
When a Christian resident of Dearborn, Michigan, spoke out against naming a street after well-known Hezbollah supporter Osama Siblani,
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) April 10, 2026
Mayor Abdullah Hammoud got very angry: “You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe! Get out, you are not welcome here!” pic.twitter.com/za0KVi5LBI
Well, of course he is, because the Mayor dwells in the sewer of deeply personal attacks. After Barham responded to the councillor
Eventually, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, a Shia Muslim whose family hails from Lebanon, weighed in, calling Barham, “a bigot,” “a racist,” and “an Islamophobe.” He didn’t stop there.
“I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here,” the
mayor told Barham. “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 because you
are not somebody who believes in coexistence.” It was an astounding display of
contempt from an elected official who had sworn to uphold the United States
constitution when he was sworn in as mayor in 2022. Hammoud’s verbal attack was
an attempt to use the language of coexistence and a narrative of Muslim
victimhood to put an uppity non-Muslim in his place.
That expression of tolerance and support of free speech came from the mayor of a major municipality outside of the city of Detroit.
So we have two individuals, Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville and Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, one of whom believes No Muslim Need Apply and the other who believes No Non-Muslim Need Apply.
Dogmatism or narrow-mindedness is often derided as characterizing the extremism of the far right and of the far left. However, in this case, that would be a serious misreading of the situation.
If Senator Tuberville's bias or parochialism is a product of right-wing radicalism, Hammond's prejudice is something a little different. Consider infamous Twitcher streamer Hasan Piker, who once stated "America deserved 9/11" and, as NBC's Kristen Welker noted, has "referred to ultra-Orthodox Jews as inbred, employed anti-Semitic dog whistles (blood-thirsty, violent pig dog) against an anti-Hamas viewer of his stream, compared liberal Zionists to liberal Nazis and said Hamas is 1,000 times better than the Israeli state." And, of course, the old "if you don't like it here, why don't you go back to where you came from," when he attacked a pro-Trump Vietnamese-American woman with
F--- you, dude," Piker said. "I mean, seriously. F--- you old lady. Shut the f--- up you stupid f------ idiotic old lady with your stupid f------ gamer headset. Who has f---ed you harder, America or f------ Ho Chi Minh? Suck my d--- old lady. Goddamn dude. F--- this refugee. F--- this South Vietnamese motherf------, whatever, like Christian supremacist psychotic f------ refugee living in America now and able to talk that s---. Why don't you go back and live in f------ South Vietnam in the same conditions if that's your perspective?
Seems nice.
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