By Debbie Schlussel
A tax-funded Detroit tourism group is spending big bucks to welcome a Black Muslim hate group to the bankrupt city.
This weekend, the racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gay, anti-Asian Nation of Islam has its national convention in the bankrupt City of Detroit. And some Detroit tax money went to pay for several expensive banners posted throughout Detroit Metro Airport welcoming the hate group to the city. See the photo posted below of one of the banners.

Click on the pic below to see the full banner and to view a larger version of it . . .

DebbieSchlussel.com has learned that the banners were paid for by the tax-funded Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau (DMCVB), an organization that gets most of its funds from taxes. We also learned that the DMCVB is responsible for actively recruiting the Nation of Islam and its loony, anti-Semitic, anti-White, anti-gay, anti-Asian leader, Louis Farrakhan, to bring their convention to Detroit.
The DMCVB is funded by a 2% tax on all hotel and motel stays in the Detroit metropolitan area. If you visit Detroit and stay at any hotel or motel with 35 rooms or more, you are helping to pay to welcome Muslim hate against Whites, Jews, Asians, and gays. The organization, which has no oversight and is completely unaccountable, refused to give me any information regarding the cost of the banners or the group’s policy regarding hate groups it recruits to the city. Unfortunately, even though the group is largely tax-funded, it is not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. Absurd. The DMCVB is also funded by the hundreds of Detroit-area businesses, including the Bozouki Club (a haggard strip joint), which pay it a membership fee to “promote” Detroit.
In November 1998, I went undercover to the Islamic Center of America–the largest mosque in North America–to hear the anti-Semitic speech of Nation of Islam speaker Louis Farrakhan. I felt like I was at a Nazi rally and had an inkling of how my Holocaust survivor grandparents must have felt in Nazi-infested Europe and anti-Semitic Poland before they were hauled off to the camps. My summary of the openly anti-Semitic Farrakhan speech, which I put in a Detroit News op-ed column, is below, at the end of this post.
When we first learned about these expensive banners hung throughout the Detroit airport and–we’re told–elsewhere in the City, we contacted the DMCVB. I spoke with the extremely rude, evasive DMCVB Communications Director, Renee Monforton and DMCVB employee Xenia Castillo-Hunter, who proudly told me she recruited the Nation of Islam to come to Detroit. Both of them hung up on me, after I repeatedly asked them if they would invite the Ku Klux Klan to Detroit for its national convention and spend money on welcome banners . . . and they repeatedly refused to answer the question.
Here is what happened with my conversation with Ms. Monforton:
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