Metro Detroit holds the most concentrated Muslim American community in the country.

Evidence

Today, he lies buried only a few miles from the cafés he frequented, the friends he made, the streets and corners that perpetually remind me of him, where his long-estranged son returned and made a home. My father, a man who was a shadow for much of my life became real, present, and finally, a father, in his last days. Since his death, his shadow is ubiquitous in the city he brought us to in 1982, a city that would become the most concentrated, celebrated, and scrutinized Muslim American community in the country. I see him more today than I ever did before, and I listen closely to the vision he had for me and the pride that would beam from him when he read about my work. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 534

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 534
• XREF: connects to: African American Muslims are the largest Muslim American plurality yet stay marginalized. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 451; Detroit’s Muslim communities have been publicly active for over a century; No American community is so simultaneously embraced and surveilled as Detroit’s Arabs (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• No American community is so simultaneously embraced and surveilled as Detroit’s Arabs #corroborates (0.70)
• Detroit’s Muslim communities have been publicly active for over a century #corroborates (0.60)
• Bombed Iraq was rebuilt as a Shia cultural enclave in west Detroit #exemplifies (0.50)
• Latinx Muslims are the fastest-growing segment of Muslim Americans #qualifies (0.40) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 38