Racist WSJ op-ed: Unpacking the mess behind the piece on Dearborn, Michigan.

Abdullah H. Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, recently announced that he had called for an immediate increase in police presence at the city’s major infrastructure points and places of worship. Hammoud, Dearborn’s inaugural Arab American mayor, who was elected in 2021, unequivocally denounced the opinion piece as “Islamophobic, Anti-Arab, and blatantly racist.” In a statement to CNN, he said: “This is more than irresponsible journalism. In order to support his conclusion that Dearborn, home to one of the largest Arab American communities in the U.S., is “America’s Jihad Capital,” Stalinsky points to rallies, marches, and statements made by residents, including religious leaders. To further back up the article’s thesis that Dearborn is a hotbed of support for terrorism, Stalinsky highlights a 2001 Michigan State Police assessment produced just after 9/11. Gretchen Whitmer, herself the target of a foiled white nationalist terrorism plot, called the article “abhorrent.” In a speech, she said, “I thought that opinion article was incredibly cruel and ignorant and a total misrepresentation of an important city full of a lot of beautiful people who are Michiganders and our neighbors and our extended family.” It is commendable to witness Hammoud take a proactive and lateral approach to safeguard the Muslim community within his jurisdiction.