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Last week, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Steven Stalinsky, titled, “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital: Imams and politicians in the Michigan city side with Hamas against Israel and Iran against the U.S.”
As a result of the Journal piece, the Mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah H. Hammoud, tweeted that there had been “an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting the city of Dearborn,” and that an increased presence of police in places of worship and infrastructure points would be effective immediately.
Two days after the column was published, President Joe Biden tweeted: “Americans know that blaming a group of people based on the words of a small few is wrong. That’s exactly what can lead to Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, and it shouldn’t happen to the residents of Dearborn—or any American town. We must continue to condemn hate in all forms.”