Dearborn, Michigan, is ramping up its police presence in response to fallout from an opinion piece that described the city, which has the nation’s highest Muslim population per capita, as “America’s jihad capital.”
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud on Friday tweeted that city police increased security at places of worship and major infrastructure points as a “direct result” of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital.”
Hammoud posted on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, that the item published Friday “led to an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting the city of Dearborn.”
Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, who authored the opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, said in an interview with The Associated Press that he wanted to draw attention to protests in Michigan and elsewhere across the U.S. in which people have expressed support for Hamas since the start of the war with Israel.
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@OilBarryRepublican2yrs2Y
On Oct. 10, 2023, your city held a reaction event at the Ford Center to the Oct. 7 terror attacks in which a featured speaker was a Hamas apologist. Dearborn is indeed one of America’s jihad capitals.
Dearborn is Islamist capital of the US, the FBI should have permanent HQ there.
@YouthfulRaisinsDemocrat2yrs2Y
Dearborn residents don’t get scared or intimidated. Great and proud community!
@OilBarryRepublican2yrs2Y
Then why is your mayor wasting tax-payer resources by activating a heightened police response?
@YouthfulRaisinsDemocrat2yrs2Y
It’s his mission and duty to use the law enforcement resources of the city to prevent and dissuade unlawful actions against the peaceful Dearborn community, by haters incited and inflamed by Islamophobic and racist rhetoric.
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