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Michigan city ramps up security after 'WSJ' op-ed calls it 'America's jihad capital'

The fallout from a Wall Street Journal op-ed has led the Mayor of

Dearborn, Mich. is ramping up its police presence after a Wall Street Journal opinion piece described the Detroit suburb as"America's jihad capital."Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud described "an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting the city" in a social media post on Saturday and called it a "direct response" to the column, which was

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