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DETROIT — A Michigan mayor ordered increased police patrols in the city over the weekend after an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal labeled the city as “America’s Jihad Capital.”

After the opinion piece was published Friday, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said police would ramp up their presence “effective immediately” in places of worship and major infrastructure points. Hammoud, the city’s first Muslim and Arab American mayor, alerted the community to the opinion piece Saturday afternoon on X, formerly Twitter.

Hammoud cautioned residents to be vigilant and said the decision was a result of the opinion piece that has “led to an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting” the city.

Hate crimes across the United States reached record levels in 2023, according to preliminary data released in January from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University. At least 2,184 hate crimes were reported in major U.S. cities last year, which included the surge of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim incidents amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

It had come just one day after Dearborn residents hosted a protest of President Joe Biden’s visit to the area on Thursday, criticizing the Biden administration for its response to the war. On Sunday, Biden and other political leaders came to the defense of Dearborn.

“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,” Biden posted on X. “We must continue to condemn hate in all forms.”

“As Mayor of the Dearborn Heights, which neighbors the City of Dearborn, I am both perplexed and appalled by the Wall Street Journal’s false derogatory term used to describe the City of Dearborn as the ‘Jihad Capital,'” Bazzi said. “The people of the City of Dearborn, along with the City of Dearborn Heights, and all its neighboring cities are placed in peril when hateful misinformation is disseminated in mainstream media.”

Michigan mayor calls for increased security in response to Wall Street Journal op-ed

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