In the end, the Terry Jones affair was considered a public relations triumph for Dearborn and its Muslim citizens. When Jones returned to the city several weeks after his initial arrest, he was heckled by 700 protestors who gathered in front of Dearborn City Hall. As Jones repeatedly recited the Pledge of Allegiance, called for a ban on shari`ah law, and asked the US government to monitor all American mosques, Mayor O’Reilly stood by, urging protestors to remain calm. He personally restrained anyone who tried to break through the barricades that police had erected to separate Jones from the crowd.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 680