The mayor Dearborn, Mich., announced Saturday the city, just outside of Detroit, will ramp up price presence around places of worship and city infrastructure in the wake of an op-ed from the The Wall Street Journal that he labeled “inflammatory.”
“Effective immediately — Dearborn police will ramp up its presence across all places of worship and major infrastructure points,” Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (D) said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter Saturday,
The WSJ released an op-ed Friday entitled “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital,” which claims that there is “[l]ocal enthusiasm for jihad against Israel and the West” in the city, which has a majority Arab American population.
President Biden made a trip to Michigan Thursday, even with frustrations he is facing from the population in the Wolverine State about how he is handling the current conditions in Gaza, amid the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.
On Wednesday, community members came together to protest Biden’s visit in Dearborn. The White House schedule for the president’s Thursday trip to the Midwestern state was vague and when White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was confronted about it, she told reporters that she did not know of any specific concerns.