Iraqi Voters Go To The Polls In Philadelphia

Dearborn, Michigan - October 31: Two days before the American Presidential election, Iraqi men break their fast during this holy month of Ramadan, October 31, 2004, in the Kerbalaa Islamic Education Center in Dearborn, Michigan, on the western edge of Detroit. Michigan State has the highest population of Arabs in the country, with Dearborn's Iraqi Muslim community at approximately 20,000. Husham Al-Husainy, director and Sheikh at the Karbalaa Center says that the majority of the Iraqi population in Dearborn gave strong support to President's Bush's removal of Saddam Hussein's regime, but now he and many others have shifted their support towards John Kerry, feeling that George W. Bush has made too many mistakes in iraq. "I was the number one proponent for the removal of Saddam, now I am the number one proponent for the removal of Bush," says Al-Husainy. On the wall hangs portraits of two Iraqi Shia Muslim clergymen, left is Muhammad Bakr Al-Sadr killed by Saddam Hussein's regime in 1979, and to the right is Al-Hakim killed last year in Iraq during a terrorist attack. (Photograph by Farah Nosh/Getty Images)