DEARBORN, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Conservative political commentator Matt Walsh took on the city of Dearborn in a recent podcast, saying it’s wrong to have allowed it to “essentially become an Arab state” and that Muslims should assimilate to American culture.

A Muslim mayor and a Christian minister.

Walsh, who is known for his recent movies “What Is A Woman” and “Am I Racist?” was responding to a Sept. 25 New York Post article about a conflict between the city of Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and Christian minister Ted Barham. At a recent city council meeting, Hammoud said Barham was “not welcome here” and would “launch a parade” when Barham left town. The New York Post article stated Hammoud refused to apologize, which set off Walsh.

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The conservative commentator was critical of Barham for refusing to file a lawsuit against the city of Dearborn and whose response was just to tell the mayor, “God bless you.”

Walsh called Barham’s response “shameful” in the podcast which has garnered 638,000 views in two days on YouTube.

“He wasn’t just talking to you, pastor, he was talking to every Christian in your community, that’s what he was saying,” Walsh said. “He was saying ‘Christians are not welcome here,’ and so getting up there and just saying ‘God bless you. I love you,’ that’s not a good enough response.”

Walsh continued: “Maybe if you got up there and say, ‘I’m going to sue you into the ground. How dare you speak to me that way? I’m an American citizen. You watch your mouth. You don’t talk to me that way. I’m going to sue you into bankruptcy. I’m going to haunt your dreams. For the rest of your life, I’m going to come after you.’ Now, if you say that, maybe you get an apology.”

Muslim call to prayer.

Walsh also referred to a Dearborn citizen complaining about loudspeakers broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer at 5:30 a.m.

“Dearborn has become essentially an Arab state,” Walsh said. “It’s a Middle Eastern Islamic capital right in the middle of the American Heartland. And for some reason, we’ve allowed that to happen. We don’t have to allow it.  This is our country. We are allowed to say, ‘No, you are not going to Islamicize our citizens.’ … This is America. That’s the Middle East. We don’t want America to be the Middle East. We are pretty well justified in not wanting that. We can look over there and say, ‘We don’t really want that. We don’t want any part of that.’ ”

The lay of the land in Dearborn.

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Walsh then read off the Muslim names of eight city officials, including the mayor, police chief, public health director and city council members.

“Let me give you the lay of the land in Dearborn,” Walsh said. “Again, just to remind you, this is a city in America. I am not reading from the organizational flow chart of a city in Saudi Arabia. This is the American Midwest. A place where you will now be woken up by the Muslim call for prayer at 5:30 in the morning. Our Founding Fathers did not have this in mind. They did not have in mind that we have American cities run by guys named Hammoud, who shout down Christian citizens and tell them they are not welcome, who name streets after Muslim figures, who have the Muslim call to prayer blasted through the streets.”

Walsh: Muslims must assimilate.

Walsh said Muslims can live in the U.S., but under American culture.

“That doesn’t mean Muslims can’t live here. That is not what anyone is saying,” he said. “What it does mean is that you have to assimilate into our culture rather than erasing our culture and supplanting with yours. These people who are doing this are legal citizens for the most part. And also they will say, if you ask them, that they do love the Constitution and they do love Democracy and they do love freedom. All that stuff allowed them to come here and turn our communities into third world enclaves.”

Walsh said, “If the entire country resembles Dearborn 50 years from now, is America still America? That really is the question.”