In case you missed it, Dearborn Mayor John B. O’Reilly, Jr. took to the national airwaves Monday evening to set the record straight about our city, a week after Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle said Dearborn and Frankford, Texas are subject to Sharia law.

Dearborn Mayor O'Reilly speaks with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

O’Reilly did a nice job representing our city with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on AC 360 Monday night.

This is what Angle said at a rally of Tea Party movement supporters.

“We’re talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe isn’t a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it,” Angle said according to audio of the rally obtained by the Washington Post. “My thoughts are these. First of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas, are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don’t know how that happened in the United States.”

Cooper called Angle out, too, pointing out that Frankford, Texas, is now part of the city of Dallas. All that remains in Frankford is a church. So we’re not sure where Angle is getting her information but her misrepresentations were on national TV for all to view.

O’Reilly sent the Nevada candidate a personal invitation to visit Dearborn and in his letter gave her a good history lesson, too. (You can read the entire letter HERE.) We doubt she will visit but she could at least call O’Reilly.

“I am afraid that many share the perception that Muslims have only recently immigrated to this area and are imposing their culture on our region,” O’Reilly writes in his letter to Angle. ”The truth is that Muslims have been in America since the Revolutionary War, fighting for our independence. The first mosque in the Detroit area was in Highland Park, in the center of Detroit, and was opened almost 100 years ago to serve automotive workers who were flocking to Detroit to earn the unheard of wage of $5 a day at the Ford Motor Co. Model T Plant. When Henry Ford built the still unrivalled Rouge Manufacturing Complex in Dearborn in the early 1920s, the second mosque was opened a short walk away from the plant. Muslims have been practicing their faith in our community for almost 90 years without incident or conflict. To suggest that they have taken over ignores the fact that Dearborn hosts 7 mosques and 60 Christian churches . . .”

” . . . Contrary to the Sharia Law misconception, there are Christina Evangelists who proselytize to Muslims 365 days a year without resistance or interference from anyone.”

You can watch the entire interview by clicking HERE.