Tag: history
A Reflection on Sacred Narrative and Civic Responsibility: To Mayor Mamdani’s Speech on 2/6/2026 by Dr. Ibrahim Atallah
A Reflection on Sacred Narrative and Civic Responsibility: To Mayor Mamdani’s Speech on 2/6/2026 Dear Mayor, I write in response to your recent remarks invoking sacred history in defense of hospitality toward migrants. The impulse toward compassion is not in question. What is at issue is the way sacred narratives were employed, selectively, and therefore ...
Southgate Police Accreditation: Trust, But Verify
A real estate “community update” graphic making the rounds says Southgate Police earned accreditation for excellence. Here’s what that actually means, what it doesn’t mean, and why Dearborn (and every Downriver neighbor) should treat accreditation as a starting line for public trust—not the finish line.[1] A polished graphic from a local business spotlighted big news: ...
Mahmoud Khalil and the Speech Deportation Machine
Newly unsealed government records tied to AAUP v. Rubio spotlight how immigration enforcement can be weaponized against constitutionally protected pro-Palestinian speech. Mahmoud Khalil’s case shows what happens when “foreign policy” becomes a loophole big enough to drive a black van through. A paper trail that reads like a warning label A batch of newly unsealed ...
From Universal Declaration of Human Values – Article 7 – Rules of Order
Robert Rules of Order should be the governing rules for all governing bodies in governments and their institutions, as well as non-governmental institutions. Article 7 – Rules of Order Democratic governance quickly decays into confusion and domination by the loudest voices when there are no shared rules for how we meet, debate, and decide. In ...
Beyond the Duopoly: Why Professor Butch Ware is the Radical Voice Dearborn Needs
By The Dearborn Greens / Dearborn Blog Staff For decades, the people of Dearborn have been told that our political safety lies in playing the "lesser of two evils" game. We’ve been told that if we just knock on enough doors for the "Fox" (the smiling liberal), we might avoid the teeth of the "Wolf" ...
Coleen Rowley: When Wars Come Home
How a former FBI whistleblower connects U.S. “forever wars” to rising violence at home — and why Dearborn should be part of this conversation. For many Americans, Coleen Rowley is a name from a different political era: the post-9/11 years, when a quiet FBI lawyer from Minneapolis broke ranks to expose how the Bureau mishandled ...
Young U-M Leader to Oxford: Yumna Dagher Named 33rd Rhodes Scholar
Yumna Dagher, a recent graduate of University of Michigan (U-M), has been named a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship recipient — becoming the 33rd Rhodes Scholar from U-M. Her journey from campus-gardens and Detroit urban farms to Oxford speaks to a vision that blends environmental justice, community food sovereignty, and cultural expression — a vision that resonates ...
Make the Greens Unignorable
Emanuel Pastreich’s three-part essay, A Green Party That Will Win, argues that Greens should stop chasing legitimacy from a corrupted duopoly and instead practice truth-first politics, radical democracy inside the party, and tangible community service that builds power from the ground up. Below, we present his full argument reformatted into three chapters—followed by Dearborn Blog’s ...
Introducing a Journey Through the Foundations of Universal Human Values: Article 5: Sexual Freedom — A Conservative Case for Liberty With Guardrails
Everyone has the right of freedom of choice and expression in their sexual orientation, and the only limitation of law should be related to securing the consent of adults within the sexual relationship and preventing rationally considerable harm related to it. Let me start where many of my friends in Livonia start: with a healthy ...
Introducing a Journey Through the Foundations of Universal Human Values: Article 4 Freedom of Religion: Defending not only the dignity of the believer—but the humanity of the doubter
.FridayMusings is pleased to provide our readers with Article 4 – Freedom of Religion from the Universal Declaration of Human Values by Wissam Charafeddine, a Livonia author and lecturer. This article is particularly important with its discussion of defending the dignity of the believer–but the humanity of the doubter.Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience ...