Neighbors remember the sound of church bells ringing on Sundays.
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Neighbors → remember → Sundays
A brick building with two sharply sloped roofs and a steeple — a Lutheran church for more than 80 years — still stands, but the cross that once stood atop the steeple is gone.
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that → stand → steeple
About six years ago, the property was sold and turned into the Al Ihsaan Islamic Center.
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property → sell → Center
"They’ll turn anything into a mosque," Justin Tye, 57, told Fox News Digital during a guided tour of his hometown, where the foreign-born Muslim population has grown significantly over the past decade.
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population → turn → decade
Tye remembers the church as the centerpiece of his American suburb where local children would gather on the lawn to play pickup sports.
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children → remember → sports
Lebanese, Iraqi and Syrian immigrants, mostly Chaldean Christians, began moving to the Detroit area in the early 20th century, after Henry Ford's combustion engine drove demand for laborers in the newly-minted auto industry.
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engine → move → industry
Warren, now the third-largest city in Michigan after Detroit and Grand Rapid, exploded almost overnight with the post-World War II auto manufacturing boom, as war veterans moved to the area to work for Ford and General Motors.
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veterans → explode → Ford
The blue-collar, white-picket-fence community incorporated as a town in 1957.
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community → incorporate → 1957
After leaving Warren in his adulthood, Tye returned 13 years ago and purchased his childhood home.
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Tye → leave → home
At that time, he says, it hadn't changed dramatically.
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it → say → time
Now, it’s much different.
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it → ’ → ?
Shortly after his return, foreign-born Muslims began flocking to the area.
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Muslims → bear → area
Wars in the 1990s and 2000s led to a boom of Middle Eastern migrations, as America took in a growing Muslim refugee and immigrant population.
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America → lead → refugee
Longstanding chain migration policies allowed family members to follow their relatives to the United States, and foreign immigrant visas have exploded in recent years.
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visas → allow → years
This, Tye said, has been the story of Warren.
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Tye → say → Warren
But his town’s plight is overshadowed in the media by nearby Dearborn, a now Muslim-majority city that has garnered national and international attention.
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that → overshadow → attention
Fox News Digital toured the area while Tye pointed them out.
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Tye → tour → them
Tye pointed out a residential home that local Muslims sought to turn into a mosque before a bitter zoning battle, where the Warren City Council eventually decided against the change.
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Council → point → change
Tye and several neighbors interviewed by Fox News Digital feel like they're being pushed out of their own hometown.
"It all started when they bought the mosque, roughly six years ago," said Tye, standing on the street corner in front of Al Ihsaan alongside his longtime neighbor, Wendy Schneider.
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Tye → interview → neighbor
"After Ramadan, they would have their [Eid al-Fitr] prayer service.
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they → have → service
We didn't know anything," he continued.
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he → know → anything
"All of a sudden, we were just woken up to 100-plus people behind the mosque, with an Imam on a podium with big amplifier speakers, belting out his prayer service.
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we → wake → service
So it woke up the whole neighborhood."
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it → wake → neighborhood
Since that day, Tye says the neighborhood has turned to "chaos," especially during Muslim holidays and weekly Friday afternoon prayers.
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neighborhood → say → holidays
Schneider, noting that she requires frequent doctors appointments, doesn’t make plans to leave her home on Friday afternoons, when worshippers flood the neighborhood for Jummah prayers.
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worshippers → note → prayers
Both neighbors claim the roads have become more dangerous, accusing the town's immigrant residents of driving erratically and claiming those who don't speak English don't fully understand the rules of the road.
"One thing that I've found is that the driving conditions around here are very dangerous, and especially on their Friday, I make no appointments," Schneider said. "Because it's too dangerous to try to leave my house."
For the same reason, Tye didn’t renew his motorcycle license plates this year.
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Michigan motor vehicle accident data shows that in 2010, the city had 3,607 crashes.
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city → show → crashes
In 2024, the last year for which the data was available, Warren had 4,086, a 13.3% increase.
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Warren → have → 4,086
Nationwide trends show about an 11% increase in crashes during the same time period.
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trends → show → period
A third neighbor, who has lived in Warren since 1971 and who declined to be named, echoed to Fox News Digital that the influx has disrupted their way of life.
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influx → live → life
"Seems like every restaurant that closes up — American restaurant — there's a Muslim restaurant that opens up.
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that → seem → restaurant
I've seen four or five of them so far," he said.
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he → see → them
A fourth neighbor, who also asked not to be named, was born and raised in Warren in a home his family has owned since 1966.
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family → ask → 1966
Like Tye, he left Warren but later returned.
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he → leave → Warren
It's been a decade since he came back.
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he → come → ?
"I'm normally laid back.
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I → lay → ?
Things don't bother me," he said.
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he → bother → me
"But it's like, this is my neighborhood and they're just taking it over, and that's what bothers me.
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what → take → me
And they don't care."
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they → care → ?
Tye said: "This whole neighborhood has been flipped in a decade — less than a decade — to Muslim.
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neighborhood → say → Muslim
…and 22 more, not listed.
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