Did Blairsville Muslim Mayor Outlaw Christmas within City Limits? Fact Check

A series of articles claim that a Muslim mayor of the town of Blairsville in Michigan declared an executive action that would remove all Christmas decorations within the city limits because they are “offensive”.

The story appears on a number of small sites and blogs and reads in part –

Muslim Mayor Outlaws Christmas 2017 Within City Limits
The Muslim Mayor of Blairsville, a small suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, has declared by executive action that Christmas decorations, music or festivities of any kind in view of the public is “offensive to the majority of residents and therefore forbidden.”
The town, with a population of nearly 120K people, is 52 percent Muslim as of the 2010 census and probably slightly higher since. The remaining residents are 3rd and 4th generation American families who have been living on family land or settling the area in general for 250 years, but their rights don’t matter:

The story is fake, and first appeared on the site AsAmericanAsApplePie.org which is known for publishing nonsense stories like this.

Firstly, there is no Blairsville in Michigan (there is in Georgia and Pennsylvania.)

Secondly, follow up articles that claim President Trump fired the mayor of this fictional town actually use a photo of Nazir Ahmed from the British House of Lords. These follow up articles identify the mayor as Rahadi al Shatir – however we could find no city or vicinity in United States with someone by this name as mayor.

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Thirdly, the sites publishing this nonsense are known (and self-confessed fake news websites.) ThatsFake.com lists AsAmericanAsApplePie.org as a fake news site, and AsAmericanAsApple.Pie.org also has a disclaimer on a separate webpage that reads as follows –

When no one can trust the lying fake news liberal media anymore because they hate us and guns and Harley Davidson and meat and OUR president, As American as Apple Pie is here to be your beacon of something you can kinda rely on sometimes but not really.

And this would certainly be one of the times you cannot really trust them. The story is entirely fake.