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. This decision, he revealed in an X/Twitter post, was in response to “an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric online targeting the city of Dearborn.” He attributes the cause of this concerning escalation to an opinion article recently published by the Wall Street Journal. 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...