"Detroit is right next to Dearborn"
TLC has a new reality show about American Muslims, set in Dearborn, Michigan. American Muslim Aman Ali has a spirited response:
Brilliant! What better way to show the mainstream public an insight
into how multicultural and intellectually diverse Islam’s followers are…
with a show focusing on just Arabs (20 percent of the world’s Muslim
population) who follow the Shia sect of Islam (about 10 percent of the
world’s Muslim population).
The show, which premiered over the weekend, presents itself as a
glimpse into the American Muslim community but ignores an overwhelming
majority of the cultures that comprise it. South Asians like my parents,
who came from India, make up one of the largest group of Muslim
immigrants in the United States.