The nation’s leading newspapers were under fire this weekend after publishing opinion pieces seen as “Bigoted,” “Islamophobic,” “Racist,” and “Reckless.”

A Wall Street Journal opinion piece published on Friday afternoon read ‘Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital.’

And on Saturday, The New York Times published a piece by long-time columnist Thomas Friedman titled “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom.” Dearborn,

Dearborn, Michigan, a city with the largest Muslim population in the US, has increased its police presence, fearing hate attacks after the Wall Street Journal branded it America’s ‘jihad capital.’ The Islamaphobic article was written by Steven Stalinsky, who is a commentator on’ terrorism’ and has served as executive director of the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, DC.

Friedman’s piece in the New York Times entitled, “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom,” posited Iran as a metaphorical “parasitoid wasp” with proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria as caterpillars. Friedman claimed, “We have no counterstrategy that safely and efficiently kills the wasp without setting fire to the whole jungle,” suggesting that the US militarily destroys the entire Middle East to annihilate Iran and its allies. He concluded that he could “contemplate” the Middle East by watching Animal Planet.