Free Republic

The mood in Dearborn, home to America's largest mosque, could not be further from that on the grimy streets of English cities where disaffected Muslim youths hang around street corners. Islam may be thriving in America - it is the fastest growing religion - but it is a religion of a very different tone to the harsh message preached by some fundamentalist imams in the UK. No one in Dearborn, the unofficial capital of American Arabs, justifies the London bombings.