Dearborn’s Muslim population exceeds all of New Zealand’s despite tiny size

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New Zealand is on the opposite side of the globe from Dunya’s world. The twenty-two-year-old graduate student, studying social work, was on the cusp of getting engaged to her sweetheart, Hussein, and beginning a new life in their hometown of Dearborn, Michigan. With roughly 70,000 adherents, Dearborn is home to more Muslims than the entire country of New Zealand, and a center of Muslim life in North America. … Muslims in New Zealand, on the other hand, comprise only 1 percent of the island nation’s total population. Islam is not nearly as embedded there as in Dearborn, nor its followers as visible. However, that Friday, March 15, 2019, would make New Zealand and the city of Christchurch central in the minds of the nearly 2 billion Muslims everywhere and a capital of white terrorism moving forward. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 881

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