First things first: I know quite well both Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s First Minister, and Stephen Kerr, the Tory MSP who has been prominent in asking questions about how the Scottish government decided to make a donation to an organisation working in Gaza.
You could almost hear the gale-force sigh of relief when Lee Anderson made his heartfelt yet blundering remarks about Islamists having control of Mayor Sadiq Khan, of London “and of Starmer as well”. It was exactly the excuse the powers that be needed to change the subject.
An op-ed piece that dubbed a Detroit suburb “America’s jihad capital" is being condemned by two Democratic state lawmakers, who described it as “racist and Islamophobic" in a resolution presented Tuesday. Introduced by state Rep. Alabas Farhat and House Floor Leader Abraham Aiyash, the measure calls on The Wall Street Journal to retract the piece, which was published Friday, and issue a public apology to the City of Dearborn. “It was a pathetic excuse for an editorial piece," said Farhat, who represents Dearborn.
The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, said the city's police officers were ramping up their presence across places of worship and major infrastructure points following an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that he called "bigoted" and "Islamophobic." The WSJ published the piece on Friday headlined as "Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital."
Jerry Holt/Getty ImagesThe mayor of Dearborn, Michigan has stepped up security measures in response to a widely criticized Wall Street Journal op-ed that declared his town “America’s Jihad Capital” because of its high-percentage of Arab and Muslim residents.Abdullah H. Hammoud, announced on Saturday that he was dispatching more police around places of worship and major infrastructure points around the city in a statement on X. He did not mince words explaining why.“This is a direct result of the