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City in Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Dearborn does not have an official count of Muslims in 2025 because the U.S. Census does not record religion; available reporting instead uses Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) ancestry and local in...
Cam Higby is a conservative/MAGA-aligned independent journalist and online influencer who says he documents political confrontations and has been physically targeted while doing so; multiple outlets r...
Anti-Muslim demonstrators led by figures such as Jake Lang staged a controversial rally in Dearborn on Nov. 18, 2025, where attempts to burn or desecrate Qur’ans and shouted calls to “clear out Muslim...
As of the 2025 election cycle, multiple U.S. cities are led by mayors who are identified in reporting as Muslim — most prominently Zohran Mamdani in New York City and Abdullah Hammoud in Dearborn, Mic...
Dearborn's reputation as a city with a large Muslim community developed over a century-long process beginning with early 20th-century Arab migration tied to the auto industry and accelerating with maj...
Dearborn, Michigan is widely documented as the first U.S. city with a , but authoritative data show the U.S. Census does not record religion, so claims that Dearborn is a . Local reporting, demographi...
The core claim is that New York City, followed by several Sunbelt and legacy immigrant cities (Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dearborn/Detroit metro, Paterson, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Philadelphia, and ...
Available sources disagree on precise counts but converge that Dearborn is home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States. A local demographic write-up estimates about 48,600 Musli...
A recent surge in Muslim electoral success has produced several firsts — notably Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 victory in New York City and a cluster of Muslim mayoral wins in Michigan and elsewhere beginning...
Available reporting and video evidence in the provided sources documents incidents of people chanting “Death to America” at rallies in at least one U.S. city—Dearborn, Michigan—during 2024–25, and com...
Jake Lang’s public record of speeches, social-media postings and organized rallies contains repeated anti-Muslim, racist and white-nationalist rhetoric that multiple outlets describe as white supremac...
Estimates for the number of Muslims living in the United States range from about 3.0 million (several survey-based estimates) to roughly 4.5 million (the 2020 U.S. Religion Census); Statista lists 3.8...
Dearborn’s exact percentage of residents who are Muslim is not known because the U.S. Census does not record religion; available data show , which experts and journalists use as an imperfect proxy for...
Estimates for Muslim populations differ by source and definition: several reputable compilations place the greater New York metropolitan Muslim population around 1.5 million (commonly cited figure) wh...
New York metropolitan area is the largest U.S. metro Muslim population by total size—sources put roughly 1.5 million Muslims in the New York metro and New York State at ~724,475 people (largest state ...
Dearborn’s Arab immigration story begins in the early 20th century with migrants drawn by Ford-era jobs and has continued in waves tied to Middle East conflicts and U.S. refugee flows; scholars and lo...
Dearborn’s Arab and Muslim population grew over decades as initial Christian Lebanese labor migrants were joined from the late 20th century by immigrants from Yemen, Iraq, Palestine and other Middle E...
Dearborn and Hamtramck are repeatedly identified across recent reporting as Michigan’s cities with the , with Dearborn notable for a large Arab-American Muslim presence and Hamtramck for becoming a Mu...
Jake Lang has publicly both made racist, anti‑Muslim and antisemitic statements and — according to multiple accounts of his speeches — explicitly said “I am a racist,” meaning that, based on available...
Estimates from multiple secondary sources point to the New York metropolitan area as by far the largest Muslim population center in the United States in 2025, followed by several other major metros in...