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In reply to the discussion: How the liberal left loses the argument. Ceding criticism of Islam to the Right. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Those people are not "typical" Persians but there are a lot of 'em like that in USA. The ones that aren't Jews are Shi'a.
Most people don't realize that Persians invented beer (ab-e-jo) and that "Loaf of bread, jug of wine" guy was theirs as well.
And Dearborn, Michigan--home to the largest mosque in all of North America--is the heart of shi'ism in USA. American shi'ites (many of Iraqi/Arab extraction) built this thing:
"Islamic Center of America" by Dane Hillard - originally uploaded to Flickr as Islamic Center of America. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Islamic_Center_of_America.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Islamic_Center_of_America.jpg
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Center_of_America