American Al-Qaida Urges Attack on Detroit

**Jimaz** · October-23-10, 12:05 PM

In a video posted on militant websites Saturday, Adam Gadahn directed his appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called the "miserable suburbs" of Paris, London and Detroit as well as those traveling to the West to study or work.

By "miserable suburb of ... Detroit" is he referring to Dearborn? How miserable is Dearborn?

This isn't his first appearance.

**dtowncitylover** · October-23-10, 01:06 PM

Dearborn is far from miserable, in my opinion. However he probably didn't do the research on our suburbs.

The suburbs for Paris are miserable. Being "banlieusard", or suburbanite in French, has a very different connotation. Parisian suburbanites tend to be poorer and there are many immigrants, Africans and Arabs from the former French colonies. I'm pretty sure that's they way it is in London too.

**Gistok** · October-23-10, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

Dearborn is far from miserable, in my opinion. However he probably didn't do the research on our suburbs.

The suburbs for Paris are miserable. Being "banlieusard", or suburbanite in French, has a very different connotation. Parisian suburbanites tend to be poorer and there are many immigrants, Africans and Arabs from the former French colonies. I'm pretty sure that's they way it is in London too.

When Baron Hausmann built the wide boulevards in Paris in the 1850s and 1860s, almost half of medieval Paris was destroyed in the process. Much of the city's poor folks were displaced to the suburbs, while the more well to do could afford to stay in Paris. This has been that way ever since.

Haussmann's wide boulevards were "supposedly" for better sanitation and living conditions... but the real reason was to prevent the unruly Parisians from "manning the barricades" [[by making the streets too wide), and for the authorities to have clear straight cannon shots, when trouble did arise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussma...ation_of_Paris

As already mentioned, the outer arrondissment's [[districts) of Paris are today where the poor and immigants live.

**Thruster315** · October-24-10, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Jimaz

By "miserable suburb of ... Detroit" is he referring to Dearborn? How miserable is Dearborn?

This isn't his first appearance.

Can we pray that it'd be his last appearance?

Seriously if the rest of the nation picks up on the fact that Detroit was the only American city mentioned, some folks really might believe that Dearborn is a hotbed of terrorists- and they're not.