{"id":5016,"date":"2026-08-19T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:08:11","slug":"chaos-erupts-in-michigan-as-j6er-leads-christian-crusader-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"Chaos erupts in Michigan as J6er leads &#8216;Christian Crusader&#8217; rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Great Replacement conspiracy theorist and pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang brought his racial grievances and \u201cChristian Crusader March\u201d to Dearborn and its city council meeting on Tuesday, where the right-wing provocateur told council members Muslim people are \u201clooking to outbreed\u201d white people and \u201csteal our wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5014\">Judges sound alarm over Justice Department \u2018controlled by the White House\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dearborn, home to the largest Arab American population in the country, has long been the target of anti-Muslim rhetoric from people outside the community. Lang had spread his anti-Muslim message in the community as recently as August 2, when he was reportedly assaulted by a Dearborn resident. The Arab American News reports the resident, Abbas Abdoush, was later detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Muslims are being used by the Democrats to instill socialism in America,\u201d Lang said during the city council meeting as the crowd lingered outside. \u201cOnce the Muslims have power in this county, then they will start throwing homosexuals off the roofs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protest before the city council meeting was defined by diametrically opposed groups of Christian nationalist and counterprotesters screaming to drown out the sound of each other. A line of police in riot gear kept the peace by standing between Lang\u2019s group of provocateurs and the rest of the crowd that had gathered outside the Henry Ford Centennial Library, where the council meeting had been moved for safety reasons. Michigan Advance estimated the crowd size peaked at roughly 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is to staying free from the Muslim Brotherhood takeover\u201d yelled Lang ally Jayden Scott in a megaphone as he stood behind the police line separating him from the crowd. \u201cWe must fight back. This is a Christian nation. A Christian nation it shall remain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A throng of supporters answered with chants of \u201cU.S.A, U.S.A.,\u201d while a man with a megaphone of his own yelled \u201cJake Lang, repent\u201d, saying Lang doesn\u2019t follow the teachings of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Lang organized the protest with the help of Detroit Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, a supporter of President Donald Trump who was criticized for attempting to enrich himself through a cryptocurrency scheme after speaking at Trump\u2019s second inauguration. Sewell is also a member of the Faith Coalition Leadership Team of Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers, who faces Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, in November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichigan families deserve a Senator who will stand up to hate rather than enable it,\u201d El-Sayed campaign spokesperson Cole Wozniak said in a press statement issued just prior to the rally. \u201cMike Rogers must immediately disavow this rally, his affiliation with Jake Lang and January 6th terrorists, and explain why his campaign\u2019s faith advisor is rallying alongside out of state agitators against Michigan faith communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A request for comment was made to the Rogers campaign, but was not returned. This story will be updated when a response is received.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic elected leaders including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson, U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) all condemned Lang\u2019s protest as an attempt to stir hatred that could directly harm Dearborn\u2019s Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslamophobic racists are yet again marching in Dearborn to terrorize a whole faith community,\u201d Tlaib said. \u201cDearborn is a beautifully diverse place, home to a vibrant, loving Muslim community, and our families do not deserve to be subjected to such hate and bigotry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5012\">Republicans beg for help in deep-red Ohio as \u2018toxic brand\u2019 threatens party<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At several moments, it seemed as if the clash between Lang\u2019s Christian nationalist supporters and counterprotesters, mostly Dearborn residents, could turn violent. A small segment of the two groups \u2014 almost all men who appeared to range in age from their late teens to early 40s, some wearing masks or hoods to hide their faces \u2014 spewed much of the vitriolic rhetoric and tried to provoke each other into physical confrontations while denouncing the other side\u2019s beliefs and defending their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese (are) fake Christians!\u201d One young Dearborn man yelled at a man in a U.S. Navy hat.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cGo back to your country!\u201d The man responded.<\/p>\n<p>Both men ignored an interview request from the Advance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Muhammad al-thihabawi in his own words.<br \/>The unity he describes here is a little pollyanna. There were some real tense moments and anger. But he says he found unity amongst people of different religious and ethnic groups who believe in the \u201camendments\u201d and that Dearborn isnt bad pic.twitter.com\/CK9yGQbum9<br \/>\u2014 Tyler Scott (@T_Scotttttt) August 19, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A significant portion of the crowd was uninterested in violence. The Advance observed several women urging their male partners to \u201cshut the f&#8212;- up,\u201d and stay calm out of concern that \u201cyou\u2019re going to get arrested.\u201d Some seemed only interested in observing Lang\u2019s promised spectacle or trying to keep the peace. Most of the animosity seemed verbal. Dearborn police said information about arrests or violent altercations was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the city council meeting\u2019s public comment period, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, who was recently the target of death threats by an Alaska man, addressed the crowd saying that word of Lang\u2019s return to the city sparked fear across the city, with some businesses deciding not to open Tuesday. Hammoud said he met a young boy who asked \u201cif the crusaders were going to kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the Christian nationalist protestors Hammoud said, \u201cthey are attacking the idea that everyone can belong to America at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donna Brandenburg, gubernatorial nominee of the U.S. Taxpayers Party, attended the protest and said the whole event seemed orchestrated to stoke political resentment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like a big act,\u201d Brandenburg said. \u201cIt\u2019s trying to divide people. People in Dearborn want peace. They don\u2019t want the fighting. I saw more American flags in Dearborn than I did in Byron Center. People need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the palpable tension and verbal hostility that dominated the evening, Dearborn resident Muhammad Al-Thibabawi said he felt \u201cunity\u201d with people of different ethnic and religious groups and that most of the Christian nationalist protestors were uninformed about what Dearborn is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to a lot of these guys who are like \u2018dude we got here and this is just a normal city that practices their amendments to the fullest\u2019\u201d Al-Thibabawi said. \u201cWe take pride in what we have. We love America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5010\">The surreal reason Trump doesn\u2019t care about the USS Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Replacement conspiracy theorist and pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang brought his racial grievances and \u201cChristian Crusader March\u201d to Dearborn and its city council meeting on Tuesday, where the right-wing provocateur told council members Muslim people are \u201clooking to outbreed\u201d white people and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chaos erupts in Michigan as J6er leads &#039;Christian Crusader&#039; 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