Posted on 09/23/2023 3:11:33 PM PDT by grundle
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. —
...last year, a Muslim who emigrated from Yemen as a teenager became mayor — the city’s first leader in nearly a century with no Polish roots — alongside what is believed to be the nation’s only all-Muslim city council.
Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of the Hamtramck’s progressiveness. The Muslim community that had previously experienced discrimination, including voter intimidation and resistance to mosques’ public call to prayer, had finally taken its seats at the table.
Yet the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity that made Hamtramck something of a model is being put severely to the test. In June, after divisive debate, the six-member council blocked the display of Pride flags on city property — action that has angered allies and members of the LGBTQ+ community, who feel that the support they provided the immigrant groups has been reciprocated with betrayal.
“We welcomed you,” former council member Catrina Stackpoole, a retired social worker who identifies as gay, recalls telling the council this summer. “We created nonprofits to help feed, clothe, find housing. We did everything we could to make your transition here easier, and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”
Some people, like 23-year-old Selena Briggs, are talking about moving out of the city, saying they no longer feel welcome.
“I don’t feel comfortable to even hold hands with my girlfriend,” said Briggs, a lesbian who works at a cellphone shop on Joseph Campau Street, a main commercial thoroughfare lined with mostly aging store fronts where furniture, clothing, jewelry and cannabis can be bought.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Elections have consequences
(“I don’t feel comfortable to even hold hands with my girlfriend,” said Briggs, a lesbian who works at a cellphone shop on Joseph Campau Street, a main commercial thoroughfare lined with mostly aging store fronts where furniture, clothing, jewelry and cannabis can be bought.)
When worlds collide.......
Alphabet perversion is white supremacy?
It’s still a false dilemma to be forced into a choice between the homosexual agenda and Sharia.
Michiganistan run outta Americans already? Good thing you got all those miggy refugees.
Salena and Catrina. Poor little libbies. First Clintoon loses and now this. Two fine examples of why men wanted to keep females out of politics for so long.
Clueless liberals finally getting a clue about Islam.
“We welcomed you,” former council member Catrina Stackpoole, a retired social worker who identifies as gay, recalls telling the council this summer. “We created nonprofits to help feed, clothe, find housing. We did everything we could to make your transition here easier, and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”
Catrina, what did you think was going to happen?
Idiots.
The alphabet soup folks should feel lucky the Muslims aren’t throwing them off buildings... yet.
Looks like the Oregon Ducks are banning Coach Prime flags. LOL
Cue dfwgator cartoon......
(Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of the Hamtramck’s -——progressiveness-——)
Ya gotta love stupid people......
Just be happy they aren’t throwing Queers off of roofs (yet)
Wow, three decades of Hollywood making movies about cruel, corrupt Christians and mild-mannered, misunderstood Muslims, and now the LGBT crowd finds that life is actually not that cut and dried after all.
Exactly. Wait until they get full-blown Sharia. There'll be a dedicated multistory building for gay men's punishment. Holes in the ground for stoning adulterous women. Shoplifters can look forward to a public square chopping block suitable for taking hands and heads for more serious crimes.
Oh Yes. Your diversity is going take giant bite out of your woke @$$.
Poetic justice to Christophobic left.
I’m always reminded of that photo of the four European
girls holding the sign, Refugees Welcome.
Wonder what they are thinking now ?
Taken its seats? It took the entire table !
“ had finally taken its seats at the table.”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.