The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, announced Saturday that the Detroit suburb will tighten pricing around places of worship and city infrastructure in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed that labeled the Detroit suburb “inflammatory.” .
“Effective immediately – Dearborn Police Department will increase its presence at all places of worship and major infrastructure points,” Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (D) said in a statement. post on Platform X, formerly known as Twitter Saturday.
“This is a direct result of @WSJ’s inflammatory opinion piece and an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric targeting the City of Dearborn online,” Hammoud continued. “Please be alert.”
WSJ released Friday’s editorial, titled “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital,” argues:[l]The city, which has a majority Arab-American population, sees local enthusiasm for jihad against Israel and the West.
President Biden visited Michigan on Thursday despite complaints from residents of the Wolverine State over the handling of the current situation in the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
On Wednesday, community members gathered to protest Biden’s visit to Dearborn. The White House’s schedule for Thursday’s visit to the Midwest state is vague, and when White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the matter, she told reporters she was unaware of any specific concerns. said.
“More broadly, the president has met with Americans who have a wide range of views on the Israel-Hamas conflict,” she said in a talk on Air Force One. “White House officials are also in regular contact with Muslim and Arab American leaders in Michigan and across the country.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim advocacy group, recently reported an “unprecedented” rise in Islamophobia and anti-Arab bigotry in the month after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel last October. It was announced that a complaint had been received regarding the quantity. It sparked the ongoing war.
The group claimed it had received 1,283 complaints of bias, an increase of 216 per cent compared to the previous year.
“Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian rhetoric that has been used to justify violence against Palestinians in Gaza and to silence Palestinian human rights supporters here in the United States is part of this unprecedented rise in bigotry. Corey Saylor, CAIR Director of Research and Advocacy, said in a statement. Remarks at that time.
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