Warren resident Justin Tye says he will keep speaking out after doxxers sent hate mail to his home for warning about his city’s mosque buildout.
Fox News Digital reports that the 57-year-old lifelong Michigan man faced online exposure of his address, and a package at his door, after he and neighbors described rapid mosque growth and neighborhood strain in Warren.
Tye told reporters he is not backing off. Longtime residents say outdoor amplified prayer, restaurant turnover, and a cluster of new mosques have upended blocks they have lived on for decades, and that raising the issue brought intimidation to his front lawn.
City officials later denounced the home targeting and said every resident deserves safety and the freedom to speak. Tye’s answer was simpler: this is his home, and he is not done talking.
Several weeks before the latest sit-down, Tye and other Warren neighbors spoke with Fox News Digital about a growing Muslim immigrant population and what they called deep change on their streets. After that story published, his address was doxxed.
Hate mail followed. One package arrived labeled for “Justin Tye, Bigot at Large.” Inside were stickers reading “F, Trump and f, you for voting for him,” plus a box of feminine hygiene products.
Tye did not flinch.
"Being doxxed, I'm not afraid. I kind of figured this was gonna come with the territory."
He tied the fight to roots, not politics for sport.
"This is my home, this is where I was born and raised, this city, this state,"
And he put the cost in plain terms.
"Some things are worth the trouble, and this is worth the trouble that could come from it,"
On a guided tour of the area, Tye pointed to what he described as five new mosques built or under construction within seven miles of his house. He said the shift began when a mosque was purchased roughly six years ago.
"It all started when they bought the mosque, roughly six years ago,"
He described an unannounced outdoor Eid al-Fitr prayer after Ramadan that jolted the block awake.
"After Ramadan, they would have their Eid al-Fitr prayer service. It was unannounced. We didn't know anything,"
"All of a sudden, we were just woken up to 100-plus people behind the mosque, with an imam on a podium with big amplifier speakers, belting out his prayer service. So it woke up the whole neighborhood."
Tye called the scene “chaos.” He also flagged conversions of familiar local buildings, an old industrial machinery business and a former Baptist church, into mosque sites, plus another towering mosque still going up. A photo caption in the Fox report showed Jeff Tye at a neighborhood sign barring semi trucks, with a semi truck visible on the property of the Al-Ishaan Islamic Center behind it. Tye was photographed on his front lawn on Aug. 25, 2026.
Other residents echoed the pressure, if in shorter bursts. One neighbor tracked restaurant turnover.
"Seems like every restaurant that closes up, American restaurant, there's a Muslim restaurant that opens up. I've seen four or five of them so far,"
A second neighbor said the issue is not small irritations.
"I'm normally laid back. Things don't bother me,"
"But it's like, this is my neighborhood and they're just taking it over, and that's what bothers me. And they don't care."
Tye framed the demand as basic respect for people who never left.
"I'm not gonna stop. I mean, you come here from another country and you disrespect the people who have lived in this neighborhood for decades, and in many cases like myself, there's several people I went to school with that bought their parents' homes and live back here,"
"These people here, these Muslims... you need to respect the people, the Americans that are here. Stop disrespecting the people that lived here for decades."
After the first story, the City of Warren put out a social message titled “One Warren: Stronger Together, No Room for Hate.” On a Friday afternoon after the doxxing drew notice, the city answered again in sharper language about homes and speech.
"Every Warren resident deserves to feel safe in their own community. No one should have to fear being threatened, harassed, or intimidated, simply because they chose to speak up or raise a concern."
"Targeting someone at their home crosses a line,"
"A person’s home should be a place of safety and privacy, never a place where they are made to feel unsafe because of their views. Regardless of where we stand on an issue, every resident deserves dignity and respect."
Officials added that disagreement is not a license for payback.
"disagreement should never become an excuse for personal attacks, intimidation, or retaliation."
"There is room for everyone in Warren. There is room for disagreement, debate, protest, and advocacy. But there is no room for threats, harassment, intimidation, or hate. We should hold ourselves and one another to a standard that protects both the safety of our neighbors and the freedom to speak openly."
The statements draw a line against doxxing. They do not settle the underlying fight over noise, land use, and how fast a neighborhood can change before longtime residents are told to sit down.
Tye said the blowback is only half the story he is hearing in town. Support, he argued, is showing up in ordinary errands.
"I'm getting a lot of support,"
"And that's what I've been hearing mainly is, 'finally a voice,'"
"Like I was out, I had to go do some shopping. I went to Meijer, I went to the bank, and then I stopped at a pizza place to get a pizza, and all three places I was stopped by people, asked if I was the Justin that was interviewed by Fox, and I said 'yes.' And the support I'm getting is incredible."
That is the split Warren is living with: officials preaching unity, activists trying to shame a homeowner into silence, and neighbors thanking the man who said the quiet part on camera.
Free people still get to describe what is happening on their own block, and a package full of insults does not make the mosques, the speakers, or the turnover disappear.
