I knew there were also a lot of Molems in the Toledo area, I once had a (quite blond WASP) girlfriend whose stepfather was a very successful Paki in Toledo. I was more or less kidding about the Ford/Detroit arab connection, finding it more curious than anything else. I mean Italians in the California wine country makes sense, Basques in the sheep country in the Central Valley foothills makes sense, etc., but why Detroit/Dearborn? for the arabs. The Danny Thomas connection makes as much sense as anything I've heard, although I thought he was a Christian Lebanese like one my college classmates. And who the ???? is kasee kasum????
Kasee Kasum, is a top 40 D.J. now probably in his 60's that does a nationally sindicated "Top 40" Coutdown. I probably spelled his name wrong, but you get the picture. In regards to D. Thomas being a Christian that is quite possible.
One of the largest percentages of the 300,000 Middle Eastern Imigrants in the S.E. Michigan area are Kaldikians (spelled correct?) they are IRANIAN Christians, some Catholic I believe. I believe they are around 60,000 to 80,000 of that number, but I would have to check to be sure they are not seperate from the 300,000 number.