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Dearborn has the proportionally largest Muslim population in the United States and the largest mosque in North America. [7] [8] In 2023, Dearborn became the first Arab majority city in the US, with 55% of its residents claiming to be of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry in a 2023 census. [9] [10]
Sally Howell, author of Competing for Muslims: New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit, said that the district began treating "Muslim families more directly like consumers". [24] Howell said that the district agreed "to segregate Muslim students from mainstream classrooms" but that the district routinely denied that this was the case. [24]
In Wayne County, the city of Dearborn has a large concentration of Arab Americans, mainly Lebanese. Recently, the area has witnessed some growth in Albanian, Asian and Hispanic populations. Immigration continues to play a role in the region's projected growth with the population of Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint (CMSA) estimated to be 6,191,000 by 2025.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump made unprecedented gains among Michigan’s Middle Eastern and Muslim population this year thanks to a months-long effort to woo voters ...
In 2000, Dearborn, Michigan, ranked second with 29,181, and Los Angeles ranked third with 25,673; although Paterson, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area, was estimated to have become home to 25,000 to 30,000 Muslims as of 2011. The Muslim population in the New York metropolitan area approximates 1.5 million, the largest ...
A controversial protest held by Al Quds Committee Detroit was held April 5 outside the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn. ... from Arab American and Muslim advocates for ... 2023, at the ...
Mayor Abdullah Hammoud slams WSJ op-ed suggesting residents in Dearborn, Michigan — including Muslim faith leaders ... in the last three months of 2023, following the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in ...
A 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center estimated that 10-13% of Muslims worldwide adhere to Shia Islam, with a global total of between 154 million and 200 million Shia Muslims. In the Americas , Pew estimated a population of just under 4.6 million Muslims overall in 2009, with a small portion of those being Shia.