To complicate matters further, the US State Department uses Dearborn as a promotional tool in its public diplomacy campaigns abroad, producing high-gloss videos (available on YouTube) that show a robust, influential, unapologetically Arab Muslim city in the heart of the American Midwest. … In short, it is hard to imagine an American ethnic or religious community that is so enthusiastically embraced by the political and cultural mainstream even as it is relentlessly stigmatized, surveilled, infiltrated, scapegoated, and intimidated by federal law enforcement agencies.

XREF: Connects to the broader paradox of Muslim communities being simultaneously showcased as American success stories and subjected to surveillance—resonates with other post-9/11 civil liberties accounts.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 686