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Abdullah H. Hammoud , the mayor of Dearborn , Michigan , recently called for an increase in police presence at the city’s major infrastructure points and places of worship.
Hammoud said he was responding to “an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting the city.
He attributes the cause of this concerning escalation to an opinion article published by the Wall Street Journal .
Frida Ghitis: Stalinsky ’s article suggests Dearborn is a hotbed of support for terrorism.
Ghitis says the article is written for a pro-Israel audience that already believes that Dearborn , Michigan , is an issue of national security.
She says the vast majority of the 50,000 American Arabs living in Dearborn are peaceful, law-abiding community.
The threat to destabilize Muslim and Arab life in America is just as real as the threat to our Jewish neighbors.
Wayne County Commissioner David Knezek expressed deep concern about Stalinsky ’s characterization of Dearborn .
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer , herself the target of a foiled white nationalist terrorism plot, called the article “abhorrent”.
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