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Doing the Jobs Newspapers Refuse to Do

The leading candidate to replace Marianne Udow as director of the state Department of Human Services next month is a longtime community organizer and bridge-builder between metro Detroit's Arab-American community and other ethnic and business groups.

The appointment of Ismael Ahmed, executive director of the Dearborn-based Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), has been speculated about since Udow announced last week that she would leave Aug. 31.

Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Gov. Jennifer Granholm, declined to comment this week except to say that an announcement will come by month's end.

Sue Hamilton Smith, director of the Wayne County Department of Child and Family Services, said Thursday that Ahmed would be a good choice.

"A phenomenal man with great integrity," Smith said of Ahmed.

"Ish is one of those people that has the ability to talk as comfortably with corporate America as he does with the homeless. And he does do both."

That's what the Detroit Free Press had to say about Ismael Ahmed. There is even a nice photo of Mr. Ahmed looking a lot like someone you might buy a used car from.

BUT!

There is much more to the story. As Debbie Schlussel informs us,

Readers of this site are familiar with Ahmed because I've written a great deal about him. The former head of Jesse Jackson's Michigan Presidential campaign, heads a Muslim-dominated agency that defrauds Medicaid by helping bring pregnant Muslim women from all over the world to America and giving them phony Social Security numbers to use so they can defraud Medicaid and have you--the taxpayers pay thousands of dollars to cover the deliveries of their babies. Plus the babies get U.S. citizenship.

And,

It's also disturbing because Ahmed's agency used thousands of government job-training funds to train Al-Qaeda terrorists to get commercial driver's licenses and hazardous material hauling certificates.

And his agency used government money to sponsor the University of Michigan Divestment (from Israel) Conference. Imagine what Ahmed will do with access to and control over Michigan's giant budget for everything that falls under "Human Services."

While you're there, follow the links where Schlussel gives more damning evidence of Ahmed's terrorism ties.

The big question here of course is, why are our newspapers offering themselves as lapdogs to our political leaders who pander to radical islamists? What ever happened to "speaking truth to power?" Sure, they'll slam Bush, Cheney, Rove, and any other conservative within reach, but there are no consequences for those attacks. There are consequences for speaking truth to Islam. So we have Debbie Schussel and other bloggers doing the jobs that American newspapers won't do. And believe me, there is a price to pay.

Labels: Debbie Schlussel, Detroit Free Press, Ismael Ahmed

posted by Harry @ 10:56 AM