Cam Higby just CALLED OUT the mayor of Muslim-dominated Dearborn Michigan at the council meeting and had the entire room STUNNED
Antifa ambushed Higby and Dearborn police let the criminal run free.
Dearborn has been conquered.
Dearborn Michigan has the highest percentage of Arab Americans of any U.S. city and one of the longest-standing Muslim communities in the country. Here’s a concise timeline of its Muslim/Arab history:
Early 20th century – First wave
- 1910s–1930s: Lebanese, Syrian, Yemeni, and Palestinian immigrants (mostly Christian at first, but including Muslims) arrive to work in the Ford Motor Company plants. Henry Ford recruited heavily in the Middle East.
- By the 1920s Dearborn has one of the oldest mosques in the U.S.: the American Moslem Society (originally the Moslem Mosque of Highland Park, moved to Dearborn; still operating on Vernor Hwy).
1920s–1960s – Small but growing Muslim community
- Yemenis (both Muslim and some Christian) settle in the Southend neighborhood for auto-factory jobs.
- The Islamic Center of America (founded 1949 as the Islamic Center of Detroit) builds its first mosque in Detroit but serves many Dearborn residents; it will later relocate to Dearborn.
1967–1980s – Major growth after U.S. immigration reform
- Immigration Act of 1965 removes national-origin quotas → large influx of Muslims from Lebanon (fleeing civil war), Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, and later Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- Dearborn’s Arab population jumps from a few thousand in 1970 to ~30 % by 1990.
1990s–2000s – Dearborn becomes “Arab capital of North America”
- 2000 census: Dearborn is ~30 % Arab American; by 2010 ~40 %; 2020 census ~54 % of residents claim Middle Eastern/North African ancestry (the highest proportion in any U.S. city of 100 k+ population).
- Roughly half of Dearborn’s Arabs are Muslim, half Christian (mostly Chaldean/Assyrian and Maronite Lebanese).
- Islamic Center of America opens its current large mosque on Ford Rd in 2005 — at the time the largest mosque in North America.
- Dearborn establishes the first Arab-American museum in the U.S. (Arab American National Museum, 2005).
Present day (2025)
- Population ≈ 108,000–110,000
- ~50–55 % of residents are of Arab descent
- Muslims make up an estimated 40–50 % of the total population (no official religious census, but based on mosque attendance, Islamic school enrollment, etc.).
- Six major mosques, dozens of smaller masjids and prayer spaces, multiple full-time Islamic schools, halal butcher shops and restaurants everywhere, Arabic signage common.
- City council has had a Muslim majority since 2022 (first all-Muslim council in a major U.S. city of this size).
In short: Dearborn went from a mostly white industrial suburb in the 1950s to the most concentrated Arab and Muslim community in the United States by the 2020s, driven first by Ford jobs and later by chain migration and refugee resettlement (especially Iraqis after 1991 and 2003).
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