Once again the question must be asked: how long can a nation endure the presence within it of people who hate it and long for its destruction?
Elahi’s love of death is a reflection of the Qur’an (62:6) and the frequently repeated statement of jihadis: “we will win, because we love death more than you love life.” We shall see.
“Dearborn Heights, Michigan Shi’ite Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi Praises Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei’s Defiance Of President Trump, Adds: For People Of Dignity, Death For A Higher Purpose Is As Beautiful As A Necklace On A Beautiful Girl; Visiting Sunni Imam Achmat Salie, Board Member Of Michigan Coalition For Human Rights And Professor At University Of Detroit Mercy: We Love Martyrdom, They Do Not; Iran Destroyed One Third Of Israel – Ethically And Methodically,” MEMRI, June 27, 2025:
During a Muharram commemoration at the Shi’ite Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, on June 27, 2025 Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi quoted Imam Hussein, whose death is commemorated during Muharram, saying: “I reject humiliation – even if the price is the sword – I don’t care.” Elahi added that Imam Hussein had equated death for a higher purpose to the beauty of a necklace on a beautiful girl. He asserted that only the Shi’ites had supported the suffering people in Gaza over the past two years. Elahi also claimed that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responded to President Trump’s demand that Iran surrender in the same spirit shown by Imam Hussein, and he added that Trump likely didn’t know the word “surrender” doesn’t exist in Imam Hussein’s dictionary.
On June 30, 2025, Sunni Michigan Islamic scholar Dr. Achmat Salie was invited to speak at the Muharram commemoration by Elahi. Salie is a professor and program developer at the University of Detroit Mercy, and created Islamic Studies programs at Oakland University and University of Detroit Mercy. He is a board member of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights.
Salie said that Muslims love martyrdom, while non-Muslims fear death and would rather live a thousand years. He praised Khamenei and said that Iran had successfully destroyed a third of Israel during the June war between the two countries. He added that “Iran has done such a thorough job and did it so ethically and methodically.”
Imam Elahi is a prominent Iran-born Shi’ite cleric who heads the Shi’ite Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights. He is considered a central figure in the U.S. Shi’ite community and is known to maintain close ties with the Iranian regime as well as with the local Michigan Democratic leadership. In March 2025, Elahi hosted Congresswomen Debbie Dingell and Rashida Tlaib at the Islamic House of Wisdom. On January 1, 2023, he delivered the prayer at the inauguration ceremony of Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Elahi has also met with former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and former Secretary of State John Kerry. He is also known to maintain close ties with the Iranian regime. On September 24, 2024, he met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during his visit to address the UN General Assembly in New York City.
In a November 6, 2020 sermon at the Islamic Center of Detroit, Dr. Achmat Salie said that both U.S. presidential candidates, Trump and Biden, are “Zionist puppets,” and that all the decision-making in the world is done by tech companies in Silicon Valley and Israel. In addition, Dr. Salie rejected germ theory and argued that face masks cause illnesses. Claiming that Islam’s enemies want to shut down mosques and keep abortion clinics and bars open, Dr. Salie suggested that there may be a plot to infect Muslims with COVID-19.
Mohammad Ali Elahi: “[Imam Hussein said:] ‘I reject humiliation – even if the price is the sword – I don’t care.’
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“Look at the beauty of a necklace on the neck of a girl, that is how beautiful death is for people of dignity – for [the sake] of a higher purpose.
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“Those [Shi’ites] who said: ‘We respond to your call, oh Hussein,’ those who said: ‘Away with the humiliation,’ are the same ones who have been saying: ‘We respond to your call, oh Gaza’ in the last almost two years.
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“The only ones who supported and showed solidarity with people who were suffering in Gaza were the ones who said, ‘oh Hussein!’
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“Seyyed [Khamenei] the Leader, may Allah protect him, made the same statement as Imam Hussein, you know that the word ‘surrender’… The President said Iran [must] surrender, and Seyyed [Khamenei] said that this term ‘surrender’ is not something new, it has been going on for the last 46 years.
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“And the same president who used the word ‘surrender,’ [he said:] ‘Iran, you have no option, surrender’ – probably he didn’t read all these mottos of Muhrram, and things about Imam Hussein. He didn’t know that in the dictionary of Imam Hussein, that word doesn’t exist.”
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Achmat Salie: “We love martyrdom, they don’t love martyrdom. They fear death, they want to live a thousand years.
“Ayatollah Khamenei also recited a beautiful verse of the Quran: ‘It is only Satan who frightens [you] of his supporters.’ It is Satan who, actually, puts fear in the hearts of his own allies. Look at what Iran has done to Israel, destroyed one third of it.
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“Iran has done such a thorough job and did it so ethically and methodically.”
SKA says
Mat the good person of dignity, Imam Elahi, obtain the object of his love speedily!
OLD GUY says
Elahi needs some dignity, what a lousy religious individual. Islam once again shows its true colors, hatred, rape, violence and murder the islamic creed.
somehistory says
What utter nonsense.
Firstly, the ugly goon…inside and out….doesn’t *love* anything. However, he does heavily *lust* to see people die. His ;death for people of dignity,’ leaves him out. So ‘death’ for goons who are ‘ripe for reaping’ will have to do in his case.
The mo goon on a commission for “human rights,” is just like putting rats in the cheese barrel. The only *rights* mo’s are for, are for other mo’s like themselves.
Can these two be deported, forthwith?
Hoi Polloi says
Reminds me of just how happy Frances was to see Christians (in his view) martyred by muslims, their children left defenseless and doubtless now being raised by muslims. I’m also reminded of his sanctioning muslims striking Christians. If he’d actually shepherded his own flock, these muslims wouldn’t be in these positions in this country and people wouldn’t misunderstand Christianity as toothless. So many religious leaders behind all this evil.
somehistory says
I agree, HP.
The former ‘pope,’ would have slapped his mother if she had spoken the Truth about all of it.
Michael Paul Skok says
Deport them to the North Pole.
Romy Jones says
Not a bad idea but I’m hoping that Musk’s Mars project picks up speed.
Wellington says
I trust no Muslim, even the nicest and most moderate of them. I’ll deal with Muslims if I have to (I always hope I don’t have to) and be civil with them but I would say the same thing about Marxists (which increasingly is looking like it will become a synonym for Democrats), KKK members, Neo-Nazis, et al.
As always, it is the hateful ideology one adheres to that is paramount and never the fact that many who adhere to a hate-laced ideology (or a simply goofy one, of which there are many) in their day to day life can be very pleasant.
Yes, it’s the ideology that counts first and foremost and it can work the other way around. For example, while I consider Christianity an enlightened and good religion, there are some Christians who are simply terrible people, but it would be a mistake to judge Christianity upon this basis. Ditto the other way around which is where I started this comment.
crown says
As always, a great comment, Mr. W!
The way I might express one of the distinctions between Christianity and Islam would be:
A Christian is often a good and decent person insofar as he adheres to the true meaning of his religion, whereas a Muslim is almost always a good and decent person insofar as he does NOT adhere to the true meaning of his religion.
Wellington says
Quite true, crown. With your first example there is a direct proportionality while with your second example it is an inverse proportionality.
gravenimage says
+1
࿗Infidel࿘ says
💯
Billy says
USA Leftists are working daily with Islam’s Muslims to destroy America from within using lawfare, deceit, discrimination, violence, and terrorism like taught in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:5, 29, 111; 98:6-7, etc.). Islam is a cancerous ideology against ALL Non-Muslims.
Allah’s hateful, totalitarian Islam, a Criminal-Terrorist Enterprise and a Murderous-Demonic Cult of Believers, Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, mass murder, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, genocide, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:41, 88; 5:35, etc.).
Allah’s demonic ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they surrender to Muslim rule when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Hence, Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam functions as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29, 111; 49:15 etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a hateful Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7 and more).
Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah, the counterfeit god, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”.
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, slavery, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:191, 208,216; 4:65, 89,91, 95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
Wellington says
Yes, Billy, Islam plus Leftism is a pretty much perfect recipe for the destruction of not only America but all of Western Civilization. Happening now.
Hoi Polloi says
“neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah.”
Thank you. You’ve made a necessary point in explaining islam. I often see or hear “islam grants the right to ——-.” Islam goes further and commands.
Patrick says
Why the hell is he not deported?
gravenimage says
Damned good queston, Patrick…
PRCS USN (ret) says
Because OUR legal system gives him the right to say what he said.
gravenimage says
PRCS–with all respect–vowing to murder Jews is *not* protected speech.
PRCS USN (ret) says
Perhaps I missed the “murdering Jews “ part. In fact, to better inform our fellow citizens—I hope he repeats it all again, and again, and….
The Istanbulian says
So should israel and america keep giving them what they want?
These guys are very generous with other people’s lives.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They absolutely should. Maybe take them to the Arctic and bomb them there
gravenimage says
Michigan: Shi’ite imam praises Iran’s defiance of US, speaks of ‘how beautiful death is for people of dignity’
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Strange that this Imam is not going for a “beautful death” trying to murder Infidels himself. Odd, tnat…
Hoi Polloi says
Always the one real question regarding these figures pushing others to martyr themselves, isn’t it?
Tim gallagher says
That is exactly what I thought, gravenimage. Surely it must be that this piece of crap just hasn’t been able to get his ticket yet to get over there and get killed with dignity. What hypocrites these scum are.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, why is he here, and not in Teheran?
gravenimage says
All good pointl Hoi Polloi, Tim, and Infidel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Aside from this imam’s admirable fealty to the United States, the thing that struck me was whether he’d have had the same opinion had he been sitting in Teheran, as opposed to Dearborn Heights
Andrew Blackadder says
Why are these people not arrested for hate speech as many others are when speaking truth about the Fascist Religious Cult of Death that is islam.
muhamad, may piss be upon him, met an Angel of Satan in that cave and certainly not an Angel of Mercy.
Pure Satanic evil.
Michael Paul Skok says
Deport them to the North Pole.
What’s wrong with this lovely letter, Spencer? Why won’t you publish it?
Death to Islam!
JOHN TOTH says
THANK YOU FOR ALL (!!!!) TO TAKE THE TROUBLE TO WRITE THE SAME THING WHAT I WANT TO WRIT… THANK YOU.
Sabrina E says
These evil Muslims should all be deported and never allowed to return to the United States. Free speech is one thing, making death threats against American is another. I will never understand how these haters like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and others like them are allowed to remain in this country and continue to spew hatred toward us.