DEARBORN HEIGHTS- This week, Imam Hassan Qazwini, the former leader of the
Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, announced plans to build a mosque in
Dearborn Heights, in the spot of a previous Baptist church.

But that news was quickly
overshadowed by a threat that was made on social media that police are now
investigating.

“I live right there, I seen
them working on it, I should blow it up,” said one of the posts made by a woman,
who has since been identified as a 26-year-old mother who lives nearby.

The woman’s threats didn’t
stop there; she went on to post two more serious threats toward the mosque:

“Them Arabs, they need to
leave America, they are slowly changing everything, it ain’t gunna be America
anymore in about a year…bet,” the woman said. “That Arab church will be burnt
down, hopefully there ain’t kids in there” she said.

The woman who made the threats
later apologized online, but community members are not taking it lightly.

“When you threaten children,
it doesn’t get any lower than that” said Azzam Elder, attorney for the
Amity Foundation, which recently purchased the building.

Police said they’re taking the
threats seriously and the woman could face felony charges.

The incident marks the latest
in online threats targeting the Muslim and Arab community in metro-Detroit. The
most notorious one coming last November from a Fort Gratiot woman who called
for Michigan residents to bomb Dearborn because it had the largest
concentration of Muslims.  She was never charged.