The mayor of Dearborn ripped into a resident who objected to the placing of two signs in the city honoring an Arab American leader, telling the resident he's "not welcome here."

In his fiery remarks at Tuesday's council meeting on Sept. 9, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud also told the resident that if he moves out of Dearborn, he will have a parade celebrating it. Speaking during the public comments part of the meeting, a resident, Ted Barham, had objected to signs from Wayne County placed on Warren Avenue named after Osama Siblani, a longtime Arab American leader, because of Siblani's past statements on some Middle Eastern groups. The day before the council meeting, on Sept. 8, the signs were unveiled in a ceremony attended by Hammoud, Siblani and several other officials and Arab Ameri

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