Anti-Muslim surveillance failed to deter the mainstreaming of Detroit’s Arab communities

Evidence

In Greater Detroit, home to some of America’s largest and oldest Arab and Muslim communities, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks has done little to alter this trend. If anything, it has reinforced it. No one predicted this outcome in the early days of response to the attacks. … It seemed that Detroit was being reconfigured as the home front for the War on Terror. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 667