December 16, 2003
Cases Citing Arabs Rise
International Herald Tribune, 22-23 November 2003.
Prosecutions of Arab and Muslim Americans in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb with a large concentration of Arab citizens, have shot up since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, the Detroit News reported. The number of people with Arab or Muslim names charged with legal violations, from assault to failure to cut weeds, has jumped 9.3 percent since the attacks, the paper said Thursday. Its analysis of 100,000 district court records also found that charges against those without such names had dropped by 6.7 percent.