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I dont feel safe any more: Dearborns Arab Americans on rising IslamophobiaResidents in Michigan city on edge as threats against their community rise, and some are reassessing their support for Trump
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But Dearborn, the USs first majority-Arab-American city, home to many residents who have lost family members to Israeli bombardments in Gaza and Lebanon, seems to attract particular vitriol.
Residents report growing racism platformed on rightwing media outlets. In recent weeks, Fox News has devoted significant attention to Dearborn, highlighting, for example, noise complaints about mosques and an alleged dispute between a local pastor and the citys Lebanese American mayor.
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Now, interviews with some of those who backed Trump last year suggest that support may be eroding.
Faye Nemer, the founder of the Dearborn-based Mena American Chamber of Commerce, which works to build economic and cultural exchanges between organizations in the Middle East and US, says that many among the Arab American community who backed Trump in last years election did so on the premise that he would be a president of peace. She was among a cohort of Arab Americans who welcomed and organized Trumps visit to Dearborn just days before the presidential election last November.
Were cautiously optimistic about this ceasefire deal [but] its become somewhat problematic what was promised during the campaign cycle versus what were seeing occur on the ground, she says.
Nemer says she believes theres a shifting of opinion in the Arab American community. I think they are in for a rude awakening come the midterm elections, she said of the Republican party. There should be some introspection there.
I dont feel safe any more: Dearborns Arab Americans on rising Islamophobia | Michigan | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/08/arab-americans-michigan-dearborn-trump

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FHRRK
(1,211 posts)Zero political capital should be wasted on their ignorant asses. They picked a side, they can deal with it.
Volaris
(11,140 posts)UpInArms
(53,539 posts)
pfitz59
(11,963 posts)Hugs and kisses?
Tetrachloride
(9,138 posts)Bobstandard
(2,041 posts)These arent just people who now feel cheated or even threatened by DT. These are people who screwed the rest of us. Its not surprising that their victims (ie us) are pissed and eschewing high manners for the moment.
Tetrachloride
(9,138 posts)Bobstandard
(2,041 posts)Scrivener7
(57,407 posts)
tanyev
(48,043 posts)😣
NBachers
(18,946 posts)yardwork
(68,290 posts)In any case, they've said over and over that they don't care at all what we think or say.
SSJVegeta
(1,703 posts)Everybody can be convinced -especially if it suits their basic interests.
Tetrachloride
(9,138 posts)As for myself, I care.
yardwork
(68,290 posts)They wrote "we want you to know it was us."
I have nothing but contempt for anybody who worked to elect Trump. The man is an evil, incompetent criminal. He's destroying our democracy.
Everybody who voted for him and bragged about it is my enemy. Full stop. I'm not interested in hearing their excuse for electing an evil criminal.
Tetrachloride
(9,138 posts)the full timeline from multiple points of view is the honest way
Biden was silent. Let that sink in. Biden was silent.
yardwork
(68,290 posts)Edited to add that anyone who cares to google "Biden comments on Gaza" will find a wealth of information, including videos and statements by President Biden calling for a ceasefire and criticizing Israel.
It's a blatant lie to say that "Biden was silent" and in any case Biden was not the nominee.
I don't give a SHIT what excuses anybody has for voting for Trump. THEY have blood on their hands and they are my enemies.
betsuni
(28,431 posts)newdeal2
(4,310 posts)You cant honestly tell me Gaza would have been worse off with a Dem president vs. Trump.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(129,635 posts)Wasn't like it should have been unexpected.
crimycarny
(1,938 posts)First of all, I am NOT saying that all pro-Palestine protestors were some sort of false flag operation, but one thing I never understood was why the pro-Palestine protests were never at Trump rallies, and why they seem to have largely disappeared after Trump won. Even more confusing to me is why there haven't been recent uprisings of protestors after all of Trump's egregious actions against Gaza/Palestine since he won.
Why? This is a legitimate question, not meant to be provoking. Where are the "Genocide Trump" versus "Genocide Joe" monikers?
Maybe those protests are still out there, but now against Trump, and I'm simply not reading about them.
groundloop
(13,350 posts)markodochartaigh
(4,297 posts)Gaza on a map before the protests (not including protesters from the Middle East of course)?
Gaza has been a hellhole for more than a decade, where were those protesters all this time? Yemen is also being pounded into rubble by a US ally with US weapons. Have these protesters protested that? This whole thing blew up on Putin's birthday. Hamas is Iran's client state. Iran is Russia's ally. The same techbros who own the social media platforms are sympathetic, if not downright friendly with Netanyahu and Putin.
tanyev
(48,043 posts)and, no, they're not showing up at Trump events. I don't know what they think private citizen Harris could accomplish for Palestinians and I don't understand why they aren't outraged at a president who supports Netanyahu 100% and is already making plans for luxury resorts in a cleared-out Gaza.
yardwork
(68,290 posts)The demonstrations, the internet campaigns, the cute logos, the identically worded slogans that hit the day after Hamas attacked Israel were all planned in advance and centrally coordinated.
The goal - which worked - was to get Trump back in the White House. The strategy was to divide Democrats and erode support for Biden and then Harris.
DSA and other groups were vehicles for promoting the propaganda.
The operation had Putin's fingerprints on it. It unfolded similarly to his campaign against Clinton in 2016. Some other billionaires helped fund it, too. China is involved.
We see echoes of the propaganda here on DU. Note the occasional anti-vax, pro-RFK, Jr. posters - their views follow the Putin propaganda on I/P.
We can point and laugh at MAGA but some Democrats behaved just as stupidly and were gullible fools.
crimycarny
(1,938 posts)Your post reminded me of the BLM movement during the Clinton campaign in 2016. It always felt to me that there was an outside attempt to hijack and weaponize the BLM movement and divide Democrats.
I think outside actors take legitimate causes people care about, and attempt to twist them into weapons to use against whoever these outside actors want to weaken. Democrats keep taking the bait, and it's frustrating as h*ll.
As for DU posts, I'm always suspicious of those that tend to be overly toxic to anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint. It definitely seems an attempt to cause anger and division, and I block those DUers.
yardwork
(68,290 posts)The attempt to divide Democrats in 2004 and 2008 involved pitting LGBTQ people against Black people. I think the GOP and their billionaire donors were behind that effort.
Democrats, almost by definition, don't usually like being told what to do. We resist authoritarianism and centralized rules. We argue with one another.
The enemies of democracy use our strength against us.
sarisataka
(22,032 posts)Very well aware of the potential consequences.
Now we all share in the suffering
lostincalifornia
(4,690 posts)fault is it?
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,634 posts)Aristus
(71,066 posts)who want to deport everyone who isn't?
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you...
SunSeeker
(56,894 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,634 posts)SunSeeker
(56,894 posts)Champp
(2,294 posts)Everyone with a lick of common sense did.
Then they voted for Kamala, and for basic human decency.
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Coventina
(28,783 posts)
QueerDuck
(202 posts)Samael13
(61 posts)caballojm
(286 posts)no shit, Sherlock. If only there had been some way to know before the election that their support for Agent Orange would come back and bite them in the ass.
EllieBC
(3,574 posts)as much if not more than they do. See: Hamtrack, MI. Fairly certain any members of the LGBTQ community there don't feel safe.
Perhaps if they loved Palestinians more than they hated women and lgbtq having rights they might not have voted for Trump.
They can fuck right off.
AloeVera
(3,826 posts)Of their friends, family and fellow humans.
Demonization is getting real old.
EllieBC
(3,574 posts)the LGBTQ community. Thats always been clear.
So fuck em. They got what they voted for.
yardwork
(68,290 posts)I'm sure they find his shitposts about replacing Gaza with a beachfront resort hilarious.
There's no way to make this make sense.
calguy
(6,019 posts)Takket
(23,288 posts)Glorious bastard
(107 posts)Norrrm
(3,108 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,470 posts)bring peace???? What possible reason would you have to believe that?
DFW
(59,126 posts)They voted for him, and were not feeble-minded, demented, or forced at gunpoint. I am not the one they should come whining to if they lose jobs, health care, or the ability of their businesses to keep their heads above water. They consciously helped deliver this disaster upon us, and I can only hope that each and every one of them suffers the consequences in full. The amount of sympathy I have for them is equal to the amount of sympathy they had for us and the rest of the nation at the voting booth last November.
If all Arab-American communities, especially the ones in and around Detroit, suddenly deliver majority votes for Democratic candidates next November, maybe I'll be the one "reassessing" my sentiments. The occasional "oops" a year before the midterms does not cut it for me. "Oops" will not remove Noem's thugs from our cities, or looney toons types like Bobby Kennedy Jr.. Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard or Pam Bondi from their positions of excessive power, and they will not remove any of Mister Scratch's* six judges from the Supreme Court, either.
*I meant, of course, the Mister Scratch of "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
Mr. Scratch: You shall have your trial, Mr. Webster. But I'm sure you'll agree, this is hardly the case for an ordinary jury.
Daniel Webster: Let it be the quick or the dead, so long as it is an American judge and an American jury!
Mr. Scratch: 'The quick or the dead!' You have said it.
[he stomps on the barn floor; a door opens]
Mr. Scratch: You must pardon the leathery toughness of one or two.
Jabez Stone: [afraid] Mr. Webster!
[a line of ghosts begin entering from the trapdoor]
Mr. Scratch: Captain Kidd - he killed men for gold. Simon Girty, the renegade - he burned men for gold. Governor Dale - he broke men on the wheel. Asa, the Black Monk - he choked them to death. Floyd Ireson and Stede Bonnet, the fiendish butchers. Walter Butler, King of the Massacre. Big and Little Harp, robbers and murderers. Teach, the Cutthroat. Morton, the vicious lawyer... and General Benedict Arnold. You remember him, no doubt.
Daniel Webster: A jury of the damned...
Mr. Scratch: [laughs] Dastards, liars, traitors, knaves. Your suggestion, Mr. Webster - 'the quick or the dead.'
Daniel Webster: This is outrageous, I asked for a fair trial...
Mr. Scratch: Americans, all.
JoseBalow
(8,648 posts)
kacekwl
(8,668 posts)Reap what you sow.
EdmondDantes_
(987 posts)But really would have been nice if they had thought of this a year ago. Hopefully they remember this in 2026 and beyond.
W_HAMILTON
(9,639 posts)EdmondDantes_
(987 posts)Very few decisions are permanent. I don't share the belief that anything Trump is doing is permanent. Yes it will take time to undo the damage, but it took the anti-abortion movement decades to reverse Roe v Wade, it took centuries to get rid of slavery and then Jim Crow. Same sex marriage, interracial marriage, etc. If we give up because it's hard, that's on us.
thucythucy
(8,997 posts)is you're not dead.
Doesn't work though for the children who will die of preventable diseases because of RFK Jr., the hundreds of thousands who will starve now that AID is dismantled, all those who might die because their health care is cut off, those who will lose their lives to shoddy drugs and contaminated food thanks to the FDA being compromised by corporate greed-heads, not to mention victims of gay and trans bashing, immigrants who have and will be "disappeared" by ICE detention....
All of this is and will be permanent to the people affected, just like the hundreds of thousands who died during Covid because Dear Leader opposed wearing masks on account of not wanting to smear his make-up. Who told us precautions weren't necessary because the virus would magically disappear with the warm weather...
Yes, Germans who supported Hitler and survived the regime and the war were able to "change their minds."
But then that didn't do much for all the innocents who died because of that support.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,094 posts)y'all made your bed, now you get to sleep in it.
I have zero fucks to give.
Vogon_Glory
(10,086 posts)No sympathy.
Jack Valentino
(3,558 posts)but maybe it didn't translate into Arabic...
Cha
(314,924 posts)Brick Wal Tumbling Down.
LS0999
(264 posts)You can't say that they weren't warned.They wanted to punish the Democrats. They hated some of the same people that maga hated. So they got what they voted for. Why complain now? You want to wake up now that ICE is at your doorstep? Smh.
Emile
(38,211 posts)Johnny2X2X
(23,481 posts)These people were duped. The Arab American votes that flipped from 2020 to 2024 cost Harris Michigan and maybe Wisconsin and Arizona.
Trump will throw these people into concentration camps the minute he finds a reason.
Happy Hoosier
(9,131 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,800 posts)
Ritabert
(1,706 posts)walkingman
(9,939 posts)NickB79
(20,128 posts)They're misogynistic fucks who'd rather be ruled by a male tyrant than led by an elected woman.
All the other excuses they give are bullshit.
Rebl2
(17,082 posts)I guess its the usual FAFO for these Arab Americans that voted for trump. Should have known this would happen to them. The trump administration doesnt care about any of the people that voted for him.
BannonsLiver
(19,732 posts)Anyway, whats everyone doing for lunch today?
Iris
(16,725 posts)betsuni
(28,431 posts)Big strong law & order businessman freedom Daddy will kiss ouchy boo boo and make everything alright!
I HATE YOU MEAN OLD DEMOCRAT MOMMY.
peggysue2
(12,211 posts)One of his first acts in 2017 was banning Muslims from entering the country. Does this sound like the Prince of Peace?
Project 2025 was a blueprint for installing a Christofascist government, a theocratic autocracy. The document was available online and broadcast by Kamala Harris and her campaign. And even now, pro-Palestine groups are berating Harris for not doing anything. After she lost the election.
Democratic leaders and voters warned the country repeatedly that Agent Orange without guardrails would be disastrous threatening lives and freedoms.
And here we are with American cities invaded by Trump's Monkey Brigades, threats of the Insurrection Act being shouted out and selective investigations and prosecutions of Trump's perceived enemies.
He has called all critics the 'enemy within.' But, of course, he has said worse of critics--vermin, traitors, gnats, etc.
This is the House the Deaf and Blind Built.
Arab Americans have every right to feel squeamish now. But really, what did they expect would happen by voting for a convicted felon, a maniac who only serves himself and holds a deep hatred for immigrants and anyone who is not lily white and silent?
Donald Trump was/is the Prince of Darkness, the Destroyer with an army of haters to bolster him up.
The question now is who are we as American citizens?
Purveyors of the Darkness or Guardians of the Light?