dearborn and southfield are suburbs of detroit.earborn has the largest concentration of arabs outside the middle east. and southfield has a significant concentration of jewish people. and now that we're at war with each other, relations between the two communities at times reflect the tensions of the middle east. some of these tensions are covered in the local newspapers. >> last year we had an editorial that was published. it was published right on super bowl day in detroit. >> we are a right of center conservative page. >> and the editorial is on sunday, he says that -- that palestinians have lust for jewish blood. >> it was very critical of palestinians, but that's not the problem of being critical. it was dehumannizing them. >> and describing palestinians as terrorists. >> same thing, they have a unique nature against self-interest >> and they're waiting for a moment, for the right moment to kill the jew. what type of a statement is this made by an editorial. what are you trying to say to the jewish community in here that watch

and asked if i would come and speak at her church, which was about an hour and a half away from dearborn so i said yes. i thought it would be a small church group, there were 160 women who just we sat and had a very open conversation, allowed them to ask all the questions they wanted to and from that point on, they actually had call their friends at other churches and we get started doing that where i just grabbed a bunch of friends for some conversation and it was something as simple as sitting down with him these various communities and churches talking to them about the arab-american community. and though that is something that i was able to greatly at that point the first few years post 9/11, most recently you have -- i know we have a lot of groups coming in, many tend to flock to america where they facilitate training and they do tours and talks about islam and who muslim americans are and what not to rely think it's something that on the community level you need to be able to reach out and open your hand and be willing to embrace your brother and sister and at the end of the day we

not clear to me that when this country is no longer the world's leading power, that the mullahs of dearborn, what they call michigan-istan want to say in the same polity as gambling of fire island. each might decide they're better off going alone. there is something more basic. take a retired federal bureaucrat in her early 50s, retired on fantastic unsustainable pension benefits and health benefits, and enjoying the early years of what is in effect a 30-year holiday weekend, she lives at 26 elm street. the guy at 24 he will misdemeanor street went exactly the same school as her. he doesn't get the 30-day holiday weekend. he has to go to work at hardware store until he drops dead to fund lavish retirement benefits of his neighbor and the retirement that he will never know. those two people can not coexist in the same street anymore than they can in athens or in london. another chasm, young versus old. what is left of american youth will be taxed to the hilt to pay for the retirement and medical care of a baby boom generation who enjoyed a life of american prosperity that their kids will nev

not clear that when this country is no longer the world's leading power that the molars of dearborn, with a call michigander stan will want to stay in the same policy as the gambling case of fire island. they might decide they're better off going alone. something more basic. take a retired federal bureaucrat in her early fifties, retired on fantastic unsustainable pension benefits and health benefits and enjoying their early years of what is, in effect, 30-year holiday weekend, she'll visit 26 some street. the guy at 2412 is exactly the same school. he has to go to work at his harms -- restore every day until he drops dead. the retirement that he will never know. those two people cannot coexist in the same street anymore than they can in athens of london. what is left of american youth will be taxed to the helped to pay for their retirement and medical care of the baby boom generation who enjoy the life of american prosperity that their kids will never know. the flash mobs, greek -- lethal rampage and ask yourself whether there will be more or less of that in oppose prosperity americ

then possibly do something against an arab or muslim or i can speak when it's pertaining to the dearborn community area. so that's a constant fear i know on a grassroots level that we have and it's something that's a huge issue for us. that people -- if you're afraid to then walk out of your home and walk the streets because so-and-so just left after doing this huge protest and now it's got people riled up who may want to do something against you, then what? then a person's rights are now infringed upon because they're not even comfortable walking, you know, down the street in their own neighborhood. >> who has the next question? >> since 9/11, do you find that the diversity of the arab-american and muslim community has been somewhat overcome? that there are groups that didn't even talk to each other or share the common heritage? have you found that's changed since 9/11? >> post-9/11, i know in metro detroit i think there was a more concerted effort for these various communities within the arab community to embrace one another and tackle these issues head on. unfortunately, it took that

i grew up in dearborn. .ini is just as american as a hamburger or a hot dog to someone else. so we are here. we're not going anywhere. we're going to stay here. we will define what america is and keep pushing our issues. and i think that's what adc will continue to do in the next 10 years. i think you'll start seeing a lot more discussion on issues like the jobs matter, the economy, health care. so we are not going anywhere. i think tea partiers and those things want to start politicizing us and using us as political favors, putting us up there as a bad guy to get some votes, i think they have another thing coming their way if they think they can do that in 2012. again, i just want to thank you guys. i want you to keep motivated, keeping tabs with what adc is doing. log onto the website. please take this book home, this report. there's great articles in there. distribute it, share the information, share what you know. and stay active and keep pushing and fight the good fight. hopefully in 10 years we'll be talking about something else. again, i want to thank you for coming. w

clear to me that when this country is no longer the world's leading power was that the mullahs of dearborn, what they call for mishighanistan will be of fire island. they might be better off going it alone but it's something more basic. if you take a retired federal bureaucrat in their early 50s, a retired on a fantastic unsustainable pension benefits and health benefit and enjoy the 30 years of what is a holiday weekend, she lives at 26 ellen street and the guy went to the same school was her but he doesn't get the 30 year holiday weekend he has to work of his hardware store every day until he drops dead to fund their retirement benefits of the neighbor and the retirement that he will never know. those two people cannot coexist in the same street anymore than they can in athens or london. another common young versus old. what's left of american youth will be taxed to pay for the retirement and the medical care of the baby boomer generation who enjoyed a life of american prosperity that their kids will never know. look at the flash marks and the vantage of the wisconsin states and ask your

whether it is arab americans living in places like dearborn, or toledo, or orange county, california tackling challenges involving our national security, civil liberties, law enforcement, or even the particular communities that are affected, there are ongoing challenges. i am confident that there will be a happy ending. there is no ending. the story is ongoing. there have been challenges of civil rights and government scrutiny, sometimes unfair, political rhetoric that has spiked. i want to talk about that with our panel. why are we seeing anti muslim and anti arab hostilities by now, 10 years later. -- spike now, 10 years later. why is hostility against arab americans is at an all-time high, higher than it was after the 9/11 attacks 10 years ago. i am curious as to why that phenomenon has been occurring. i would love to discuss that with the panel and discuss some of the ways we can tackle some of those ongoing challenges and look to other communities. how can we as arab-americans, muslim americans, build coalitions with our fellow americans to meet those challenges? and to look to