Dearborn’s Downfall
Muslims now run Henry Ford’s hometown.
September 23, 2025 by Bruce Bawer
As I have been shouting from the rooftops (figuratively speaking) for a quarter of a century, there exist in Western Europe entire cities, and large sections of other cities, that are already effectively under Islamic control. Muslim leaders who at first, before their fellow believers had achieved dominance, played the victim and spoke of religious freedom and minority rights, now wield their power ruthlessly, imposing sharia law with increasing imperiousness and treating the non-Muslims among them the same way that infidels have always been treated in Islamic societies. In Bradford and Malmö, in the Stockholm neighborhood of Rinkeby and the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, the future of Western Europe has already arrived, and it’s not a pretty sight.
I once hoped – long ago – that America would somehow escape such a catastrophic fate. I was wrong. Back in April I wrote about EPIC City, a project of the Islamic Center – i.e., mosque – in East Plano, Texas, which had bought over 400 acres of rural land on which it planned to build a Muslim-only municipality. The project had gotten pretty far along (with over 500 lots sold) without getting a lot of attention in east Texas, but, Texans being Texans, people did start standing up. The Justice Department launched an investigation – only to close it soon afterwards. Then, earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law, triggered by the EPIC City project, that forbids sharia-run property developments; but within just a few hours, the Texas Workforce Commission seemed to cave to the East Plano Muslims, dismissing a complaint that had been lodged against them under the Texas Fair Housing Act. In short, it’s not necessarily looking good.
Or take the case of Hamtramck, Michigan, a separate municipality that is surrounded by Detroit, just as Beverly Hills is surrounded by Los Angeles. But Hamtramck is no Beverly Hills. In 2015, it became the first city in the U.S. to elect a majority-Muslim City Council Local liberals cheered. But they weren’t cheering two years ago, when the City Council – now 100% Muslim – voted to ban rainbow flags from being flown on municipal property.
To be sure, Muslim residents who packed City Hall for the occasion did cheer. Lustily. As the Guardian reported at the time, one local posted a triumphant message on social media reading “Fagless City.” Responding to angry gay residents, Councilmember Mohammed Hassan shouted: “I’m working for the people, what the majority of the people like.” Former mayor Karen Majewski wasn’t pleased. “There’s a sense of betrayal,” she said. “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.” Yep, that’s how it works. Every time.
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