Dearborn – While normie Michigan voters have been lulled into an apathetic sleep on the issue of the Israel-Gaza war, the Biden Administration and Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign continue to extend olive branches to the radicals in Dearborn and make visits to kiss the mayor’s posterior. 

But wait, there’s more. In a stunningly clever and targeted operation of counterterrorism, thousands of pagers exploded last week in Lebanon, killing a large but unverified number of Hezbollah terrorists. No government has taken responsibility yet, though several news agencies have reported that Israeli officials have indicated they were behind it. In no time several left-wing Democrat politicians began complaining on Twitter and condemning the Israeli government. 

But less than two days after the explosions, something even more shocking and politically problematic occurred. A celebratory memorial was announced for one of the alleged Hezbollah terrorists killed in the pager operation titled “In the memory of the late martyr Fadel Abbas Bazzi” to take place at the Islamic Institute of Knowledge in Dearborn on Sunday. Bazzi’s real funeral was held on Thursday in Lebanon as documented by Reuters, however social media posts and Dearborn associated websites indicate he has family in Michigan, including an uncle in Dearborn.

I suspected there’d be no intrepid members of the media covering this memorial to a terrorist, and I was right. During my two hours at the event I didn’t see any local Detroit print or television media present. Of course that makes sense. An event such as this makes the Democratic coalition look bad at a time when Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, are working exceptionally hard to appear moderate and pro-American to suburban voters who are generally pro-Israel and negatively repulsed by radical Islam and antisemitism. 

Dearborn Police were on hand to protect the event from outsiders. Some of the attendees were quite obviously keeping a sharp eye for counter-protesters. Just hanging around the area resulted in someone near the main entrance taking my photo.  Ohhh, you got me.   

Regarding the event itself, about 300 attendees entered the mosque prior to its 3 p.m. start, but most interesting were the demographics. Several men attended, but the overwhelming majority was female, seemingly between the ages of 30 and 50. Of the men that did attend, most were between 50 and 60 years of age. I counted very few young adult males. 

One has to assume that a memorial for a Hezbollah militant, openly promoted online, might not be the best place for young men supportive of a group designated as an enemy of the U.S. to show their faces. This might explain the almost complete absence of military-aged males at the event. 

Nevertheless, openly memorializing a Hezbollah terrorist and using the term “martyr” to honor him seems like a radical escalation within the American social fabric, yet neither the mainstream media nor white liberal politicians in the state acknowledged it. 

Conservatives and right wingers calling out memorials to Hezbollah terrorist’s costs them nothing. Their supporters see it and think: We can’t have this. 

But Democrats have to pay a cost to their own left-wing factions in the media and the activist class if they openly oppose such activity, hence the reason Michigan Democrats have remained silent as Fadel Abbas Bazzi got fêted as a hero in Dearborn. God forbid if the mayor of Dearborn gets a little upset and Vice President Harris has to fly in for a secret meeting. 

That weakness in our culture, our politicians, and government why Hezbollah’s “martyrs” can now be celebrated openly in an American city. Fear of escalatory reaction, loosening of cultural guardrails, and the annihilation of norms gives anti-American forces the space and breathable air to operate in the open while constantly testing the stress points for more room to maneuver. 

It’s a progressive movement, so to speak. First they pulled down photographs of both Israeli and American hostages captured by Hamas. Then they put up encampments in college campuses and the harrassed Jewish students walking to classes. Then they held rallies in Detroit, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles with protesters using eliminationist speech. And now they celebrate the martyrdom of terrorists working for groups who target and kill Americans and their allies. 

I suppose it’s a tall order for mainstream journalists to report on a Hezbollah Memorial in Dearborn, but then again, reporting that Trump is Hitler every day, all day long, is busy work. 

J.Z. Delorean is a writer for Michigan Enjoyer and has been a Metro Detroit-based professional investigator for 22 years. Follow him on X @Stainless31.