A keffiyeh-clad attendee at a pro-Palestine fundraiser in Michigan vowed that people at the event are willing to fight and die to bring down the ‘American empire.’
A resurfaced video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows a man at the Stories for Liberation event in Dearborn Heights on February 7 called for the United States to be brought down.
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Dearborn Heights – as well as the neighboring city of Dearborn – have some of the highest populations of Muslims in the United States.
Dearborn was dubbed the U.S. ‘Jihad Capital’ by The Wall Street Journal and made headlines last year when protesters at a pro-Palestine rally chanted ‘death to America.’
The video showed the attendee promising to work towards and even sacrifice themselves to end America.
‘We do feel like change needs to come, because change must come. And in the form that it must come is that this empire, the American empire that’s been hurting our people since the beginning, the imperial Western powers that have been hurting our people since the beginning, they must fall,’ the man said.
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The alarming message sparked immediate backlash online, with some calling for the federal government to investigate his claims.
‘This guy is speaking calmly & clearly & the lady next to him had that Squeaky look in her eyes. TRUST he means what he’s saying people,’ actor Michael Rapaport said.
‘I’ll never get used to the hypocrisy of the people calling for the fall of America while living in America – particularly the ones that moved here,’ said another.
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Even those who said they are pro-Palestine slammed the man for his beliefs claiming he is hurting the movement.
‘You’re going to get Dearborn blown up. We’re with you on stopping our Country from being complicit in genocide, but the stand you’re taking is making it a no choice situation,’ one person said.
‘We don’t want your ideology or Israel’s. We want to restore the Constitutional Republic.’
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‘The bloodshed has to stop all over the world. And I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason.’
Many voters in Dearborn refused to vote in the primaries because residents are fiercely divided over the war in Gaza.
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