Dearborn, Michigan, is in federal court for preferential treatment for Muslims and discrimination against Christians and Jews!! ⠀ Margot Cleveland filed Sept. 17, 2026, in the Eastern District of Michigan. The American Freedom Law Center is on the complaint. ⠀ Mayor Abdullah Hammoud is a named defendant. Cleveland has lived in the city since 2007 and writes as senior legal correspondent for The Federalist. ⠀ She first saw “Ramadan Kareem” banners downtown in April 2025 while picking up a pizza. A lighted crescent moon sat in Peace Park on city property. ⠀ A FOIA pull showed $1,500 in public money for the banners. Another $5,000 went to the park display. ⠀ Dearborn Police sold Ramadan shirts with the department emblem. Cleveland emailed the city attorney on April 6, 2025, and asked that Easter and Passover get the same treatment. ⠀ Nobody answered that email. AFLC later wrote that Dearborn had become “a hostile place for Christians and Jews.” ⠀ In February 2026 the city hung crescent-and-star lights on municipal street lamps and called it the first of its kind in Dearborn. Hammoud said the display “reflects who we are as a city.” ⠀ The complaint says officials then added still more lighted Ramadan signs after she kept asking. She told city council on April 14, 2026, that she was not asking them to drop Muslim holidays. ⠀ The suit also quotes Hammoud at a 2025 council meeting telling pastor Ted Barham he was “not welcome” in Dearborn. Hammoud said the city would throw a parade if Barham left. ⠀ Barham had criticized a street named for Osama Siblani. The complaint alleges First Amendment retaliation and an Establishment Clause preference for Islam. ⠀ It also alleges a Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection claim. Dearborn is a majority Arab American city of more than 100,000. ⠀ #Dearborn# #Michigan#