DEARBORN—On
Thursday, May 7 activists stood outside Dearborn Sweets demanding an apology
from Rush Limbaugh after the radio host made controversial comments about the
company.

The
event, “Fight Bigotry With Baklava” was held outside Dearborn Sweets only a
month after a YouTube video
featuring Dearborn-based Muslim-owned bakeries attracted national attention and
received more than 2 million views. 

The video,
“Hidden CAM: Gay Wedding Cakes at Muslim Bakeries?” was made by
comedian, actor and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder. It has upset some
Muslims who appeared in it and who say Crowder’s claims are not true and that
he falsely portrayed them.

In the video,
Crowder is seen visiting three Muslim-owned bakeries, including Dearborn Sweets,
and claiming they all refused to take the order for a gay couple’s wedding
cake. 

After the
video was posted, community activist and Huffington Post writer Brian Stone
said Limbaugh accused the LGBT community of being afraid of
“battling” Muslims over wedding cakes, because Islam’s real goal is
an “all-out assault on Christianity.” 

Participants
called Limbaugh’s comments anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT.  Stone and others who attended the event
joined the grassroots campaign Take on Hate to encourage metro Detroiter’s to
“Fight Bigotry With Baklava” by buying Baklava from Dearborn Sweets.