DEARBORN, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – When Jake Lang came to Dearborn with a Quran in one hand and slab of bacon in the other, he said he expected he would incite the Muslims who lived in this city.
Mission accomplished.
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Lang completed his night of activism by addressing the Dearborn city council.
“You guys don’t live like we do,” Lang told the city council. “We don’t want you in our country. … For white Americans, we are being driven out. You come here and you marry four or five women, and you outbreed us. You change the laws. You make all our country look like the places you fled from. We don’t want you here. Respectfully, get the f*** out of my country. I don’t want you here.”
A police escort lead Lang out of the city council chambers.
Condemnation from the Michigan GOP.
Chris Long, grassroots chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, posted a statement on social media condemning Lang.
“I fully and absolutely condemn what unfolded in Dearborn today,” Long said in the statement. “What we witnessed was an unprovoked stunt designed to antagonize an entire community for absolutely no reason. Attempting to burn a religious document isn’t activism and it doesn’t accomplish or change of [sic] anything. … Yes, the threat of radical Islam is real. That’s a fact. But this kind of stunt does absolutely nothing to address it.”
Tuesday’s march.
Earlier on Tuesday, Lang walked through the streets of Dearborn during a Christian march. Anthony Hudson, a Republican running for governor in Michigan, organized the march. It drew about 100 people. However, Lang captured the attention of protesters who were upset that he had arrived in Dearborn.
Lang, a Jan. 6 protester sent to prison for his role in the 2021 protests at the U.S. Capital after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, eventually received a pardon from Trump. Lang is from Florida and running for a U.S. senate position.
He promoted he was coming to Dearborn.
A video of Lang being punched by men an hour before the march began and having his two Qurans stolen before he could burn them was the clip that made the rounds.
In the end, a crowd of about 40 mostly Arab men surrounded Cam Higby, who came to document the march, and Lang.
The crowd tried to intimidate Lang. One woman in with a bullhorn said “Dearborn made it clear, fascists are not welcomed here!” a few inches from Lang’s ear.
Others yelled, “We are going to Charlie Kirk you!” as they smiled and laughed.
Lang told Higby that one Arab man in a car who had stopped on the street called Lang over and appeared to tell him something. Later, Lang returned and told Higby the man threatened to kill him.
“From the river to the sea.”
Other Arabs brought a large sign that read, “From the river to the sea …” That’s a slogan that many in the Jewish community believe stands for the extermination of the Jewish state.
One of the men with Lang was spit on by an Arab man.
Higby was attacked before the march when a non-Arab man sprayed him in the face with pepper spray.
Groups of Arab men surrounded Lang after the march ended at the city hall building. Every step Lang took, the followed him like a bee hive.
At 6 p.m., police constructed a barricade and Lang and Higby stood protected behind the police line.
“This,” one man told the group of self-described patriots who were pulled away from the crowd and protected by a metal barricade and a wall of police officers, “is the bad side of Islam.”
