Posted on 11/22/2015 7:10:49 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
HAMTRAMCK, MICH. — Karen Majewski was in such high demand in her vintage shop on a recent Saturday afternoon that a store employee threw up her hands when yet another visitor came in to chat. Everyone wanted to talk to the mayor about the big political news.
Earlier this month, the blue-collar city that has been home to Polish Catholic immigrants and their descendents for more than a century became what demographers think is the first jurisdiction in the nation to elect a majority-Muslim council.
It’s the second tipping for Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-tram-ik), which in 2013 earned the distinction becoming of what appears to be the first majority-Muslim city in the United States following the arrival of thousands of immigrants from Yemen, Bangladesh and Bosnia over a decade.
In many ways, Hamtramck is a microcosm of the fears gripping parts of the country since the Islamic State’s attacks on Paris: The influx of Muslims here has profoundly unsettled some residents of the town long known for its love of dancing, beer, paczki pastries and the pope.
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Wonder why the Post didn’t write about the arranged marriages between old men and young girls in this Muslim community.
We have been warned!
Have they tried banning beer and pork yet?
Lemme know when there’s a majority White Anglo Saxon Protestant city in Iran and we’ll talk about feeling sorry for a bunch of vicious throwbacks who espouse a gangster “religion”.
The sheep are nervous.
Hamtramck had more bars per block than anywhere in the US back when.....but its no longer majority Polish.
There are Arabs at the foot of my bed, how did they get here? Roger Waters Pros and cons of Hitchhiking.
The Christians get to listen to the call to prayer 5 times a day.Always sounded like somebody trying to skin a live cat to me.
It will also be a great way to locate them when the stuff hits the fan
How long before the name of the town will be changed?
Cant have “ham” in the name of a moozlym town.
“The sheep are nervous.”
No the goats are. The sheep wre smart and left with the whites years ago!
“The Polish people think we were invading them,†said Masud Khan, one of the mosque’s leaders, recalling that time in an interview earlier this month. “We were a big threat to their religion and culture. Now their days are gone.â€
The mosque, which attracts about 500 people for its Friday prayer services, has purchased a neighboring vacant limestone building in the heart of the city that once was a furniture store. The mosque’s leaders plan to put a minaret — a spire — on the building and use it to continue broadcasting a call to prayer five times a day.
Invasion COMPLETE
How do Muslims get away with a loud call to prayer throughout the city and Christians are stopped from praying quietly in a group at events?
And in Oakland on Sunday the churches have to keep the singing down so neighbors can’t hear it.
Sharia is lurking!
I would think that the smart non-muslims are planning to get outta town ASAP. That place is going to be a prime target-rich place should (when?) the islamics start to misbehave.
You cannot make this stuff up.
Do you live around there?
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