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LENDER
Adat Shalom Synagogue is pleased to present
The Dr. Fred Benderoff Memorial Lecture on Healing
BEYOND TEARS
THROUGH LAUGHTER:
A SHORT HISTORY OF JEWISH HUMOR
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Afterglow following lecture.
The community is welcome. There is no charge.
For information, call (248) 851-5100
No Award
FBI withdraws plans to honor
Arab American activist.
DIANA LIEBERMAN
StaffWriter
A
local Arab American leader
scheduled to receive a
national award from the
Federal Bureau of
Investigation saw that honor evaporate
before it took place.
According to Southfield attorney and
columnist Debbie Schlussel — who
takes responsibility for convincing the
FBI to withdraw the award — Imad
Hamad is a supporter of terrorism who
is under investigation by the very
agency that planned to honor him.
"This is not a question of Jews versus
Arabs — this is a question of America
versus terrorism," said Schlussel, who
authored a column Sept. 18 in the New
York Post opposing the award and
another column in the Post on Oct. 16
claiming that her efforts caused the FBI
to rescind the honor.
"I definitely disagree with terrorism
on any side," Hamad told the Jewish
News. "I have never in my life, in any
way shape or form, advocated any kind
of terrorism."
Hamad, born in Lebanon of
Palestinian refugee parents, became a
U.S. citizen in 2002. Midwest regional
president of the American-Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee (ADC),
Hamad and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey
Collins co-founded the organization
BRIDGES (Building Respect in
Diverse Groups to Enhance
Sensitivity), which works to improve
the relationship between the local Arab
American community and federal law
enforcement.
Willie Hulon, Detroit FBI special
agent in charge, nominated Hamad for
the Award of Excellence for Exceptional
Service in the Public Interest, the FBI's
top national civilian award.
Schlussel wrote in her Oct. 16 Post
column that, "When officials in
Washington checked on Hamad, they
found he was a subject of 'over a dozen
open investigations' involving terrorism
and related matters. Most of these
probes were conducted by Hulon's own
Detroit-based agents."
U.S. Attorney Collins told the Jewish
News that he supported Hamad's nomi-
nation for the FBI Award of Excellence.
"Imad is not the target of any
Homeland Security investigation, and
Willie Hulon has said he is not the tar-
get of any FBI investigation."
Neither Hulon nor the national FBI
offices would comment to the Jewish
News on the issue.
Hamad, a Dearborn resident, was
scheduled to fly to Washington Oct. 9
at FBI expense to receive the award,
which he would have shared with the
late Madeline Sweeney. Instead, the
award was given posthumously only to
Sweeney, the American Airlines flight
attendant who called in the alert when
terrorists took over her flight, which
crashed into the World Trade Center's
North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
"I will always feel honored to have
been a nominee," said Hamad, who
was one of a dozen Detroit-area resi-
dents named by the Detroit News in
2002 as a Michigander of the Year.
"Mrs. Sweeney is more deserving
than me — or anybody else."
Listing Reasons
Some of the reasons given by Schlussel
in her Sept. 18 New York Post column
for her opposition to Hamad's receiving
the award included:
• "The Immigration and
Naturalization Service suspected him of
being a member of the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine, [which
was] responsible for countless homicide
bombings and the October 2001 assas-
sination of Israeli Tourism Minister
Rehavam Zeevi. It so opposed Hamad's
presence in the United States that it
fought to deport him for two decades."
[In 1999, an immigration judge
ruled the government's evidence was
"vague, lacking in specificity and
uncorroboratedl
• "In a 2002 broadcast on Detroit's
FOX affiliate, Hamad supported a
Palestinian Authority TV Sesame Street-
style program that urges Palestinian
children to kill Jews and Christians and
encourages them to become suicide
bombers. Hamad called the program
`patriotic.'"
• "When U.S. Customs raided several
Islamic businesses and arrested owners
for laundering over $50 million per
year to Yemen in violation of the Patriot
Act, Hamad protested. When four
Detroit Al Qaeda sleeper cell suspects