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President Joe Biden on Sunday denounced anti-Arab rhetoric in response to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece targeting Dearborn, Michigan, that the mayor called \u201cbigoted\u201d and \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The WSJ published the piece on Friday headlined as \u201cWelcome to Dearborn, America\u2019s Jihad Capital,\u201d suggesting the city\u2019s residents, including religious leaders and politicians, supported Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The column drew outrage from Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, as well as several US lawmakers and rights advocates from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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