Dearborn isn't a 'walk for peace': Tehran launders extremism US refuses to see
The scenes from Dearborn, Michigan, where thousands of Shiite mourners marched through the streets to commemorate the 40th day of a death nearly 1,400 years old, deserve to be understood as more than material for internet debate. Children carrying banners, religious paraphernalia, and portraits of figures such as Khamenei and Nasrallah, alongside troubling chants and incidents of violence, point to a larger problem of political-religious indoctrination. Dearborn offered a glimpse of an ideological infrastructure America has spent decades refusing to examine with the seriousness it deserves.
