Over the past few months, we have published several posts about what is happening in Dearborn, Michigan. If you missed those, you can go back and read them here, here, here, and here. We've tried to send a wake-up call. Today, Marina Medvin seconded that alarm.
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— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) September 25, 2025
Dearborn Michigan is violating the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment, civil rights laws, state laws, etc. The city government is basically endorsing Islam with no equal treatment for Christianity and Judaism.
— Dearborn erected Ramadan banners, displays, etc.,…
Marina's alarm came after reading a report by 'The Federalist'.
An investigation by The Federalist finds the Arab-majority city has been extremely accommodating to Muslims, but not so much to minority Christians and Jews — particularly when it comes to the city’s involvement in celebrating religious holidays.
“The bottom line is that the City of Dearborn has become a hostile place for Christians and Jews,” civil rights attorneys Robert J. Muise and David Yerushalmi wrote in a letter of concern to Hammoud sent Friday and exclusively obtained by The Federalist.
City Attorney Jeremy Romer is copied.
Romer and Hammoud should be familiar with Muise and Yerushalmi. The attorneys have won some high-profile cases and hefty judgments against Dearborn for violating the religious civil rights of Christian clients.
For now, the attorneys’ American Freedom Law Center, a nonprofit Judeo-Christian law firm “Fighting for Faith & Freedom,” is reminding the mayor and the city that the Arab-majority city can’t play favorites with religious displays.
“While all of the residents of the City do not share the same faith, they do share the same rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution,” the attorneys’ reminder letter notes.
The letter requests the city equally recognize the holy days of Christians and Jews, including Christmas, Easter, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur.
‘A Preference for Islam’
As the law firm’s letter notes, there have been several instances in which city officials, particularly the mayor, have shown a “preference for Islam over other faiths.” The attorneys assert the city has failed to represent religious displays for Christians and Jews, with the exception of “secular” displays, but has erected banners for the Muslim month-long religious observance of Ramadan.
Documents obtained by The Federalist show taxpayers paid thousands of dollars for the Ramadan displays and other items. One double-sided banner cost $1,512. The city paid $825 for another sign, according to city invoices.
A Dec. 26 email from Jonathan Golich of Dearborn’s Parks and Recreation Department notes festive lights and displays would be left up “through Ramadan.”
“They [the contractor] also will be adding crescent moon to Peace Park west in February that will remain through Ramadan as well,” Golich wrote, noting the symbol Muslims use to honor and celebrate Ramadan and the feast that follows the month-long fasting. City emails include the crescent moon design and the greeting, “Ramadan Kareem” (Generous Ramadan) Downtown Dearborn,” in English and Arabic.
Now, obviously, people have the right to practice their religion. This is what America is all about. Governments don't have the right to give one religion a preference, however, and that is apparently what is happening in Dearborn.
That’s just one component … one! … the amount of violations under each constitutional issue and civil rights issue is just incredible. The brief would be 150 pages long if not longer.
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) September 25, 2025
Marina is a brilliant Constitutional attorney. She was able to save many J6 defendants from egregiously long sentences. If she says there is a problem, there's a problem.
@TheJusticeDept could really step up and do quite a bit of good by establishing the precedent that these @CivilRights abuses won’t be tolerated. DOJ failed to prosecute assaults/vandalism against Jews leading to more unrest, maybe now they’ll move to act.@HarmeetKDhillon
— HumbleModesty (@HumbleModesty) September 25, 2025
Hey @HarmeetKDhillon - your office needs to look at this… https://t.co/vPYxNwkz9E
— KeithH (@kch50014) September 25, 2025
Where is the ACLU?
— Mike Giorgino (@GiorginoMike) September 25, 2025
They would only fight against it if it were Christians. Let's be real.
Now is the time for the Trump Administration to step in and ensure the rights of all religions are being respected, and one religion is not preferred. When issues like this are allowed to metastasize, they spread. It is already out of hand. It is time to manage it.
