How could we not have one Arab poster on This Board?

I find that disconcerting.

Relax

The city's population includes 40,000 Arab Americans.[18] Ethnic Arabs own many shops and businesses, offering services in both English and Arabic.[19] In the 2010 census, Arab Americans comprised 40% of Dearborn's population; many have been in the city for several generations. The city has the largest proportion of Arab Americans in the United States.[20] As of 2006 Dearborn also has the largest Lebanese American population in the United States.[21]
The first Arab immigrants came in the early-to-mid-20th century to work in the automotive industry and were chiefly Lebanese Christians (Maronites). Other immigrants from the Mideast in the early twentieth century included a large Armenian-American community, who are Christian. Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs have also immigrated to the area. Since then, Arab immigrants from Yemen, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, most of whom are Muslim, have joined them. Lebanese Americans are still the most numerous group.[22][23] The Arab Muslim community has built the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America,[24] and the Dearborn Mosque. More Iraqi refugees have come, fleeing the continued war in their country since 2003.
Warren Avenue has the commercial center of the Arab-American community. The Arab American National Museum is located in Dearborn.[25] The museum was opened in January 2005 to mark the Arab American community's history and contributions to the United States.

Chaldeans, according to my Michigan friend, are basically guidos who own convenience stores. Never call them Arabs.

Don't lots of government services here have material in Polish? I know the Social Security office in Mount Prospect does.

You know others concerns, you know why and then you try to give an example of another ethnic group as if we should look at them the same way. You keep looking at it like there is no difference, I won't.

What? As a retard pointed out, much of Michigan's Middle Eastern population is Christian. They're not declaring jihad on Detroit. They're just wearing too much Axe.

OK, it's a great place with wonderful people and I hope to live there one day.

CPGuy's political/cultural thoughts are at least consistent.

"Thoughts" imply presence of intellect, so that can't be it. Rather, cpguy's most hated foreign language is reason; most guys see "Thanks, Obama!" memes and think "not again," or "too played out". Cpguy sees them and says "brilliant!"

Wha? I didn't post this because I hate brown people. I just posted the article and left it up to your imagination!

Some things are so predictable (laughable).

This was an email I got and posted it as such with no editorial comment and posted it in the general discussion section.

Is it not worthy of discussion how the Arabic culture is growing throughout various parts of the world and causing very real issues? Is it OK for immigrants (from wherever) to come to this country and we allow them to immediately get welfare and handouts when we as a country are in debt up to our ass??

Or is that racist??!!

Why have a discussion when instead we can do name calling.

So much more appealing...

It actually would scare me if the US population was starting to consist primarily of the Muslim religion.

Why is that?

"Arab" just means that you or your ancestors hail from that region of the world typically inhabited by Semitic Peoples (middle east region). It has no religious or specific/country-based ethnic designation.

Got this email. I did call the number and yes, press 3 for Arabic:

This is from a fellow who lives and works in Dearborn!

You can't work in the school system front offices if you don't speak Arabic now and need to know many dialects as some Arabs can't understand others Arabic language!

Understand, everybody goes back to the 'homeland' for months and expects to get passed on to the next grade It's crazy as I am at ground zero on this kids (assuming girls, can't tell for sure) roaming the hallways in full blown burkas.