2nd Largest Muslim Population in the Non-Muslim World: How Dearborn Became The Mecca of America

Amazing but true! [Paris is the first.]  Also the largest mosque on this continent is not in New York or Los Angeles–it is in Dearborn Michigan. Now Paris I understand.  I love Paris.  In fact, I love all of France.  The French are among the most tolerant cultures on the planet.  I can understand why Muslims from the Middle East would want to migrate to that lovely city–but Dearborn Michigan?  UGH!  Why? 

A conversation with my dearest friend who lives in Orange Country, CA started this particular quest for the facts.  She is a Republican so naturally everything she says I take with a large grain of salt–especially  her emails that often are Republican chain letters.  I always subject them to a Scopes.com test for truth and they always fail. LOL.  But today we were chatting on the phone and she said that Michigan had the largest Muslim population outside the Middle East. Now that REALLY sounded suspect to me as I thought the Muslims had better sense than to move to Dearborn.  Turns out that Sandy was almost right on that, but it was equally surprising for me to learn that Dearborn even placed as second.  Why? Why? Why? 

Further research revealed that the main answer to that question is none other than Henry Ford! He would not allow a Jew to work in his factory.  Consequently Dearborn became known as the American Mecca for Muslims.  

Yep! Henry Ford.  Now I did vaguely remember that Ford didn’t like Jews, but I didn’t realize how Muslims would benefit from that prejudice. 

How involved was Ford in hating Jews? In 1938, four months after the forced annexation of Austria by the Nazis, Henry Food accepted the Grand Cross of the Supreme order of the German Eagle for his invaluable contributions to the Third Reich.  His “invaluable contributions” included large cash donations to the Nazis to finance their takeover of Germany and thousands of military vehicles and warplane engines to power the Nazi conquest of Europe and Britain.  We don’t read about this in our history books because the rich don’t like to say bad things about other rich people AND especially rich well connected to Wall Street. 

Ford was a total fanatic against JewsHe even published a weekly newspaper titled:  The Ford International Weekly THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT It ran such disturbing headlines as “The International Jew: The World’s Problem”  All Ford dealers were required to sell the paper