Governors attended their fund-raising banquets in the 1950s; mayors attended their mosque openings in the 1930s; their political meetings and community protests were dutifully reported by the local press in the 1920s, and the opening of the Highland Park Mosque in 1921, the handiwork of Syrian, Turkish, and Balkan Muslims, received several columns— and a photograph of three turban-wearing, flag-waving imams—in the big Detroit newspapers.

XREF: Connects to the broader narrative of early Muslim American civic participation, contrasting with assumptions that such engagement is recent.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 690