On Sept. 11, a historic run for Dearborn mayor that impacted Arab Americans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Federal law enforcement shut down Muslim charities, including some in Michigan; targeted mosques and young Muslims with undercover informants in what critics said were entrapment cases; took actions that led to banks shutting down the accounts of some Arab Americans in metro Detroit, and profiled them at airports and border crossings, sometimes using terrorism watch lists that wrongly assumed they were extremists.
39% : Some of the same issues that came up in Abed Hammoud's race in 2001 -- sewer and flood problems, taxes, business development -- are still topics being discussed today in Dearborn, which faced severe flooding in June that angered many residents.

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