What is up with Dearborn Michigan today?

So, um...this is an interesting headline: FBI kills leader of radical Muslims; 12 charged. Wanna bet where it comes from? Dearborn Michigan, of all places. Readers may remember Dearborn as the town that banned a Christian ministry from handing out pamphlets at a Muslim festival. So clearly they've got a bit of a problem with Muslims in their town. I'd say that problem's gotten a bit worse, now. From the Detroit Free Press:

The leader of a local mosque who authorities also are calling the head of an Islamic fundamentalist group was killed in a shootout with federal agents this afternoon during a series of raids that resulted in charges against a dozen men.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, leader of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, is accused in a federal complaint of heading a Sunni Muslim group with a mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.
Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was gunned down after firing on officers as the FBI raided a Dearborn warehouse, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. An FBI canine also was fatally shot. Raids also were conducted in Detroit.

Ah, yes. Christopher Thomas. Named after the great prophet...Chris, I guess. Mark Steyn had an interesting post up on the Corner today, in which he wrote:

Two U.S. residents, one an American citizen, one a Canadian citizen, educated and assimilated, and enjoying a nice enough living to be able to afford to fly to Denmark to kill a couple of guys over a cartoon. In the long run, Afghan cave-dwellers and Waziristani goatherds are less of a threat than fellows like Messrs Headley and Rana. The company name — "First World Immigration Services" — is a rather droll jest.

So, just plug in the name Christopher Thomas, and you've got another chapter in the saga. At any rate, the main story continues:

"The eleven defendants are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years and known to be armed," a joint statement from the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office said.
A 12th man was arrested late Wednesday in connection with the investigation. Three of the men charged were at large Wednesday night.
Abdullah and the others were charged with conspiracy to commit several federal felony crimes, including illegal possession and sale of firearms and theft from interstate shipments.
Abdullah spoke of attacking Super Bowl XL
Abdullah believed he and his followers were soldiers at war against the government and non-Muslims.
"Abdullah told his followers it is their duty to oppose the FBI and the government and it does not matter if they die," FBI agent Gary Leone said in an affidavit unsealed today. "He also told the group that they need to plan to do something."

Abdullah, 53, of Detroit stayed true to his word as armed FBI agents raided a Dearborn warehouse at Michigan Avenue and Miller. Authorities said he refused to surrender, opened fire and then died in a shootout in which an FBI dog also was killed.

( Read the rest here. )Well that's not very nice. On a whole, I'd say that Dearborn Michigan's got some problems with its religious community. It's too bad that it's devoted so much of its energy already to making sure that Christians can't hand out pamphlets at a festival...

H/t to Xanthippa for the story.

[ UPDATE: From Blazing Cat Fur: 3 Ontario men sought in connection with Mad Mullah Shot in Dearborn Michigan ]