President Joe Biden denounces anti-Arab rhetoric in response to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece targeting Dearborn, Michigan, that the mayor called “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.”
The WSJ published the piece on Friday, headlined as “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital,” suggesting the city’s residents, including religious leaders and politicians, supported Hamas and extremism.
Biden, while not referring directly to the WSJ or the article’s author, says on social media platform X it is wrong to blame “a group of people based on the words of a small few.”
“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 says.
The city has one of the highest percentages of Arab Americans among US cities, with census figures showing it is about 54 percent Arab American.
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