Detroit’s Little Iraq hosted a rare Shia-majority sanctuary from Saddam’s persecution
Evidence
In this section of the city, refugees from Iraq landed in that rare Muslim community where Shia Islam—the religion’s minority sect—was the majority. A place where Iraqi storefront mosques sit along Warren Avenue and processions honoring Shia martyrs march down Greenfield Road. A place where Shia Muslims like Hussein found sanctuary from the sectarian persecution inflicted by another Hussein, Saddam. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 195
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: Clarifies that in the global Muslim minority Shia sect, west Detroit’s Iraqi community constituted a rare Shia-majority enclave.
Related
- Bombed Iraq was rebuilt as a Shia cultural enclave in west Detroit (similarity 0.88)
- Iraqi Shias faced persecution from Saddam and US forces alike (similarity 0.78)
- Metro Detroit holds the most concentrated Muslim American community in the country. (similarity 0.78)