The mayor of Dearborn has ordered more police officers onto the streets, ramping up law enforcement presence across places of worship and major infrastructure points this weekend following an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal that called the Michigan city the “jihad capital” of the US.
And on Sunday Joe Biden weighed in, denouncing anti-Arab hate and, without referring specifically to the newspaper, saying “it shouldn’t happen to the residents of Dearborn – or any American town.”
The newspaper published the piece on Friday with the headline: Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital.
Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammoud reacted sharply, calling the piece “bigoted” and “Islamophobic” in an online post.