Dearborn Muslims Protested ISIS, and You Can Probably Guess What Happened Next

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34075-dearborn-muslims-protested-isis-and-you-can-probably-guess-what-happened-next

Last night, a Facebook correspondent messaged me an alarming note: “Hey Jesse, thought you might be interested in what's not being reported in the news. This is Dearborn, Michigan, right after the terrorist attack in California. What flags do you see flying here?” The link was to this Facebook post, a photo of what appeared to be a procession of flag-bearing people marching down a street on a gray day, though they’re mostly obscured by cars, so you can’t really tell what’s going on, with scary text reading, "This is Dearborn Michigan after the radical Islamic attack in California ! These are Isis flags and Isis supporters folks but the media has not reported because of politically correctness.” It had been shared almost 3,700 times, and I also found a tweet with the same photo that had been retweeted more than 1,300 times.

I assured the guy who had messaged me that if ISIS were openly demonstrating in Dearborn (which has one of the highest proportions of Arab-Americans in the country and which is therefore a frequent subject of unhinged rumors about Muslims), “the media” would be all over it, and that this was probably false — but that I’d look into it.

A reverse-image search on TinEye quickly revealed that this rumor's thousands of shares on Facebook and Twitter had caught the attention of the rumor-investigating site Snopes. In a post there, Kim LaCapria concludes that, no, there was not an ISIS demonstration in Dearborn. In fact, based on the timing of the photo and a couple of other nuggets of evidence, she makes a pretty strong — albeit circumstantial — case that if the photo’s real, it’s of an anti-ISIS march that took place in Dearborn on November 27, during which Muslims gathered to raise their collective voices against the terror group.

No way — the fever-swamp internet couldn't possibly be passing around a photo of an anti-ISIS march as a pro-ISIS march, right? Surely there has to be some boundary point in the national conversation marked with a sign reading "Rumors about Muslims this crazy and fundamentally wrong, even the most terrified and ill-informed Americans won't believe"?

[ben_thayer]

1. Too many people

see what they want to see, and believe what they want to believe. Not surprising in the least...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. Why are there so many Muslims in Michigan?

I am not saying this is bad. As a Southerner I am wondering what set of circumstances draws them to Michigan.
I know Dearborn has a lot of Muslims.
Can you tell me?

[romanic]

3. From what I know living here in SE MI

A lot of arab immigrants followed early Christian Lebanese Americans to the metro Detroit area (specifically Dearborn) to work for Ford - Dearborn is the HQ of the Ford Motor Company) - and other auto related industries. After the wars in Iraq, refugees came in since there were already large pockets of Iraqis in the area from early immigration along with Arab businesses and a Muslim population already in place.