Picture this: you’re driving through your hometown, a place you’ve lived your whole life, and you see a police officer walk by with a patch on his shoulder. But instead of reading the words “Police” in English — you know, the language of the country you’re in — you see Arabic. Welcome to Dearborn Heights, Michigan, the first police department in the United States to slap Arabic writing on its uniform. And folks, this isn’t satire. This is real.
According to the department’s own announcement, the new patch is “optional,” and was designed by Officer Emily Murdoch to “reflect and honor the diversity” of the city’s population — which is nearly 40% Middle Eastern and North African. They say it’s about “unity,” “respect,” and “celebrating culture.”
Now let’s hit the brakes and ask a basic question: What exactly are we unifying around if even the word “Police” no longer has to be in the language of the country we all live in?
This isn’t about being anti-immigrant or anti-Arab — it’s about common sense, national identity, and not bending over backwards to appease a multicultural fantasy that erases what brings us together in the first place. America has always welcomed immigrants. But that welcome has never meant we throw out the idea of assimilation, or start swapping out English on official uniforms.
It’s not a coincidence that this is happening in Dearborn Heights — a city that sits just outside of Dearborn, long known as a hub for Middle Eastern immigration. In fact, Dearborn Police already rolled out a Community Policing Center with Arabic signage — back in 2001, just two months after 9/11, when most Americans were still trying to process the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Let’s not forget that in 2001, Michigan State Police labeled the region a “major financial support center for many Mideast terrorist groups.” They even warned that “sleeper cells” could be housed in the area. But hey, nothing says “community trust” like writing police patches in the same script used by groups that chant “Death to America!” on the streets of Michigan.
And yes — that’s happening too. Just earlier this year, pro-Palestinian protesters in Michigan screamed for the entire U.S. system to be eliminated, while waving signs and chanting slogans that wouldn’t sound out of place in a Tehran rally.
So when Rep. Randy Fine from Florida posted a picture of the new patch and warned that it was all part of a goal to “bring Sharia law to America,” maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it as hyperbole. Maybe it’s a warning. And maybe, just maybe, it’s time to stop pretending that every cultural move made under the banner of “diversity” is automatically good for the country.
Let’s be clear: this is not about hatred. It’s about standards. It’s about remembering that the reason immigrants — from every corner of the globe — came to America wasn’t because we were just another country, but because we were a united one. One language. One flag. One system of laws rooted in Western values, not Sharia courts and tribal politics.
If we keep trying to be everything to everyone, we’ll end up being nothing to anyone.
Police uniforms should reflect order, unity, and the rule of law — not a patchwork of cultural exceptions. America isn’t a salad bowl where every ingredient stays separate. It’s a melting pot where we blend into something stronger, together.
It’s time to stop apologizing for expecting assimilation. It’s time to stop pretending that America has no culture of its own worth defending. And it’s time to stop letting left-wing identity politics infiltrate even our police departments.
Because when law enforcement stops speaking the same language as the citizens it serves — literally — the writing may be on the wall. And this time, it’s in Arabic.