Dearborn, Michigan - a fitting place it seems for hatred

Sarah Honig is a columnist who writes predominantly in the Jerusalem Post through her column, Another Tack.  On October 4, 2012 she examined the state of affairs in Dearborn, Michigan.

Dearborn, Michigan, may have started off as a no-account aggregate of farms and modest homesteads but it would evolve into a singular omen. This once-quintessential emblem of old-time Americana would stand out as a powerful indication of important things to come. Dearborn encapsulates within itself something akin to an ever-unfolding prophesy of America’s future.

It’s perhaps no quirk of fate that the latest episode in Dearborn’s annals is about protecting the honor of a prophet via anti-blasphemy laws – the draconian sort which proliferate in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other centers of Islamic enlightenment. It’s all along the lines of the international ban on anti-Islam speech proposed at the UN General Assembly by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and darling of America’s own elected leader, Barack Obama.

Obama's recognition of Muslim grievances gives rise to something dangerous to the American way of life.

This perception of righteous resentment, accentuated by their own favorite president, brought Dearborn’s Muslims out for an extraordinary rally to urge that legal prohibitions be legislated against free speech, if that speech is deemed hurtful to “the religious feelings of Muslims.”

Not the feelings of Jews or Hindus, mind you, just Muslims.

Yet, we should not necessarily be surprised because Dearborn, home of the assembly line, was also the operational headquarters for Henry Ford.  Ford, no friend of the Jews, in fact he blamed them for every ill in the world, was an idol of one Adolf Hitler.

Read Ms. Honig's full column here.