Mideast Meets Midwest. TLCs All-American Muslim makes Islam homey

摘要

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN MONROE, Mich., one of our biggest football games each season was against the Fordson High Tractors, from the Detroit suburb of Dearborn-a perennially tough team and Monroe's rival since 1928.1 knew, vaguely, that Dearborn had the largest Arab-American population in the U.S., but all I saw were beefy guys in football helmets. It's not as if they called themselves the Fordson Crescents.