Small city branded 'America's jihad capital' descends into civil war - as locals reveal why they detest both Biden AND Trump ahead of election

A city labeled 'America's jihad capital' by the Wall Street Journal has become fiercely divided over the war in Gaza - as residents refuse to vote for either candidate in the presidential election. 

Dearborn, a small city near Detroit, Michigan, is home to America's largest Arab American community. 

The mood amongst locals has significantly switched as the death toll in Gaza continues to mount - with little indication of a political solution in the near future. 

Residents of Dearborn believe America's political leaders are playing a major role in enabling the suffering caused by ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Their apathy towards the upcoming election is dwindling by the day. 

Abu Bilal, owner of Oriental Fashion - a clothing store on Dearborn's Warren Avenue, demanded to know 'where is the humanity' as he discussed the killings of 90 Palestinian civilians with The Guardian. 

A man getting his hair cut at the Al-Rehab Barber Shop on Dearborn's Maple Street said - in Arabic - that he doesn't care who becomes president following the November election. It won't make any difference to him...

His barber agreed, saying that he didn't vote in 2020 and doesn't plan to this year.

Joe Biden won the battleground state in 2020 by just 154,000 votes - and the demise in political spirit could be harmful to his ability to take the key swing state come November. 

Election turnout in Dearborn was 10 percent higher in 2020 than the previous election in 2016 - Biden also won 10 percent more votes than Hillary did. 

These stats suggest that voters were energized in 2020, but word on the streets of Dearborn, per The Guardian, is that this year's attitudes could not be more different. 

During the Democratic primaries in February, 6,432 Dearborn voters chose 'uncommitted' in protest of Biden's support of Israel's war. 

Biden held a campaign rally at a school near Dearborn on Friday - but Arab Americans across the country have rejected the campaign's bid to win their votes.

'The whole community was aware [that the administration had sent campaign officials to meet with the community], and I think it says a lot, that he sees us as no more than votes and that it's been normalized for our people back home to be killed,' Jenin Yaseen, an artist whose family is from a village outside Nablus in the occupied West Bank, said. 

'Dearborn is made up of people from Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere that have been directly impacted by American imperialism,' she added. 

Members of Biden's election campaign team visited Dearborn in January - and were met by an empty room on one occasion because Dearborn's mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, refused to meet them. 

Hammoud, along with two other Arab American state representatives, refused the campaign meeting because its purpose was to discuss elections and not the war.

The 33-year-old mayor was unimpressed with President Joe Biden's 'strange' comments about an Israel-Hamas cease fire – which the president delivered while enjoying a scoop of ice cream with comedian Seth Meyers.

Hammoud called out Biden in February, shortly before casting his vote for 'uncommitted' rather than the leader of his party at a Dearborn polling place.

'I think I find it strange that you're eating ice cream at a parlor - that is the moment that you talk about a cease fire coming forward,' he told DailMail.com when asked about the president's latest comments.

He then referenced Benjamin Netanyahu's statements about having a plan to invade Rafah inside Gaza.

'I don't look to lip service or words. I'm looking for action. You want a long lasting, permanent and just cease fire. 

'We don't want a return to the status quo of occupation and apartheid, of bombardment, of besiegement, of devastation and destruction for the Palestinian people. And that means establishing a just Palestinian state,' he said. 

In April, Muslim protesters were heard chanting 'death to America' and 'death to Israel' during a rally in Dearborn.

Demonstrators gathered in the city in commemoration of Al-Quds Day in support of Palestinian people and to oppose Israel.

The protest came less than a week after seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, drawing global outrage.

Video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows Tarek Bazzi, a local activist, delivering remarks at a podium as chants of 'death to America!' sound in the background. 

'It's not just Genocide Joe that has to go,' Bazzi said in reference to President Biden. 

'It is the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen, and would support it – such a system does not deserve to exist on God's Earth.' 

Bazzi then directed his attention to Israel.

'So when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist...the chant 'death to Israel' has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today,' he said.

Audience members then repeated the chant.

Bazzi explained that the rallies have become 'so anti-American' because 'it's the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities.'