Dearborn’s Arab Muslim majority shapes how its officials must handle anti-Islam agitators

Evidence

Pastor Jones’s visit to “Dearbornistan,” as neocon bloggers like to call this Detroit suburb, 16 must have shocked him. The city has 40,000 Arab Muslim residents out of a total population of 100,000, and its municipal government is highly responsive to the needs of this unique constituency. Handling anti-Muslims agitators is a skill savvy local politicians must acquire. By publicly burning the Qur’an, Terry Jones had already caused rioting in Afghanistan that left 12 people dead, and his visit to Dearborn was considered a serious threat to law and order in the city. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 672

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s guiding question about where fear relocates—here the fear/symmetry is inverted: the white provocateur fears an Arab-run city.