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On 3 September 2017, the satirical web site AsAmericanAsApplePie.org, playing off the recurrent creeping sharia conspiracy theory, posted a fake story reporting that the Muslim mayor of the fictional town of Blairsville, Michigan had outlawed Christmas in the city as of 2017: For starters, there is no suburb of Dearborn, Michigan called Blairsville, and the photograph used in the story to depict a supposed Christmas-banning Muslim cleric is actually an Associated Press photograph of Mohammad Qatanani, the leader of a mosque in New Jersey who has been in the news because he has been fighting potential deportation. It is clear from AsAmericanAsApplePie.org's About page that it is a satire site that is not meant to be taken literally: Whether one thinks the content of the site is funny is subjective, but the post seems intended to play off anti-Muslim sentiments and ongoing fearmongering over an alleged war on Christmas, which is recycled in one form or another every year despite a consistent lack of evidence to support its assertions. Predictably, despite the fact the story is satire and its details completely fictional, people posted it to social media with anti-Muslim commentary like this, for example:
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