Portofino, Italy Portofino, ItalyAmerican Medinas: Turning US Cities Into ‘Beachheads’ for Islam
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Founded by Alexander Hamilton as the first industrial city in America, Paterson, N.J., is now home to America’s largest Palestinian community and largest proportion of Muslim residents. Today, New Jersey’s third-largest city is effectively run by its 30,000 Muslims, some of whom say they don’t need to learn English because it’s like living “back home” in an Arab city.
Paterson holds an annual Palestinian flag-raising ceremony, during which residents chant, “Free Free Palestine!” And in 2022, it renamed a five-block stretch of Main Street “Palestine Way.”
In June 2023, Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh signed a sister city agreement with the mayor of Ramallah, a city in the West Bank and the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority, which officially celebrates the killing of Israelis. And last year during a ceremony kicking off Ramadan, he declared his city the “capital of Palestine in the United States of America” and the “fourth-holiest city” in Islam. “We are 100% halal!” Sayegh gushed, meaning pure and lawful under Islam. The mayor even agreed to hang a sign at the city entrance that reads: “Welcome to Little Palestine.”
Paterson is just one of several American cities – which also includes Hamtramck and Dearborn in Michigan – now controlled by Muslims; followers of Islam also exert outsized influence in some larger cities such as Minneapolis and New York.
.....This is perhaps no more evident than in Paterson, where elected American officials annually raise the Palestinian flag. Several years ago, Paterson’s Muslim-majority city council voted to change existing noise regulations to allow the city’s dozen mosques to blast out the Islamic call to prayer five times a day – from before dawn to after dusk. The move has incensed some non-Muslim neighbors, including one who recently entered a nearby mosque to complain about the noise. “Everybody’s not Muslim here,” the man yelled. “I don’t want to hear that s-— every day.”
.....As Paterson’s mayor proclaims the city belongs to Islam, the religion’s dominance has spread beyond its borders. In nearby Clifton, N.J., Islamic leaders are proposing to build a new 40,000-square-foot mosque in place of a converted church where Muslims have been congregating. Muslims in Prospect Park, N.J., helped elect Syrian-born Mohamed Khairullah as their mayor. He leads three other Muslim men on the six-member city council.
.....Thanks to chain migration, the area has become a magnet for migrants from Islamic nations. So many Muslims are settling in the Paterson area that apartment buildings have waiting lists. Critics warn more surrounding towns will fall to Islamic influence until, one day, Islam spreads across the entire tri-state region. This seems to be the plan. During a Jordanian flag-raising ceremony in Paterson this April, a county commissioner vowed: “Inshallah (Allah willing), one day we will be able to raise these flags throughout all 16 municipalities in Passaic County.”
.....Located just 15 miles west of Manhattan, Paterson is part of a metropolitan area that includes New York City, where Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, is now mayor. The Muslim population grew at an astonishing rate in the metro area, rising from 1.6% in 2000 to 5% of the total population in 2020, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives. The nearly 1 million Muslims now rival the estimated 1.3 million Jews residing in the metro area.
The Center for Security Policy maintains that an “electoral jihad” has already begun in the region.
.....merica’s most famous elected Muslim official, Zohran Mamdani, rode into office through strong support from New York’s largely immigrant Muslim community.
“The election of Mamdani is a game changer,” Yasir Qadhi, chairman of the influential Fiqh Council of North America, said in a sermon last year. “That is a victory for the Ummah.”
He also rejoiced in knowing that growing percentages of Muslims in Western cities are “terrifying” non-Muslim leaders. Noting such comments, Robert Spencer, a senior fellow with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, said that with Mamdani’s victory, “Muslim leaders are speaking openly now about the conquest and Islamization of the United States.”
.....Situated in the middle of the Detroit metro area, Hamtramck is another microcosm of Muslims coming to power and gradually imposing their strict religious code on the greater community.
Muslim immigrants from mostly Yemen and Bangladesh have flocked to the two-square-mile city and carved out an increasingly Sharia-compliant enclave. Their numbers have made it a Muslim-majority city, and that’s translated into unprecedented political power. With almost 30,000 residents, Hamtramck is the first city in the U.S. to have an all-Muslim elected city council. Also sharing the Islamic faith are its mayor, city manager, attorney, comptroller, clerk and police chief. Like Paterson, one of the first acts by its Islamic leaders was to rename the city’s main street “Palestine Avenue.”
.....At Hamtramck schools, Easter break has been replaced with vacation at the end of Ramadan. Lunch menus are 100% halal: “The animals have been blessed by a Muslim” before being slaughtered for school meat, according to a school document certifying the practice. In 2023, the city council voted to permit the slaughtering of goats and sheep on residential property as long as it conforms to the Islamic ritual of slitting the live animal’s throat with a knife and draining the blood before further cutting and processing.
.....Just 15 miles from Hamtramck is another city with a dense concentration of Muslims. Almost half the Dearborn police force is now Muslim. Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn’s Democratic mayor, has called for the annihilation of Israel “from the river to the sea” and said Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack was “inevitable,” adding, “Ending this violence requires ending the occupation.”
Critics worry these Sharia-compliant enclaves are providing a theocratic blueprint for surrounding towns, and they warn the entire Detroit area, like that around Paterson, could come under Islamic control given current demographic trends. In 2020, the share of the Muslim population more than tripled in the Detroit metro area, rising to 5% of the total population from 1.4% in 2000, according to the latest data from the Association of Religion Data Archives.
Dearborn’s influence already has spread to its western neighbor, Dearborn Heights, where its police department introduced an Arabic version of its uniform patch, in the shape of a badge, worn by officers. In Southfield, Mich., another inner-ring suburb of Detroit, a Sharia-compliant bank has sprung up that caters exclusively to Muslims. It’s called the University Islamic Financial Corp., and it provides alternative loans for homes, autos, and businesses that conform to Islamic principles that prohibit the charging or earning of interest. UIF Corp. offers no other products, yet it is now the top Islamic finance institution in the country thanks in large part to demand from the surfeit of Muslims in the Detroit area. UIF has sold more than $1 billion in Islamic mortgages in Michigan and more than 15 other states. As RCI has previously reported, following pressure campaigns by Muslim lobby groups, American financial giants, including Morgan Stanley, AIG, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Citicorp, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase, now offer Sharia-compliant products that strictly adhere to such Islamic criteria.
Surveys show a sizable share of Michiganders are not happy with the spread of Islam in their state and have soured on Muslim immigration.
Almost two in five (37%) agree there are now “too many” Muslim immigrants in the state, according to a poll taken in May of 1,456 state voters by TechnoMetrica. By a six-to-one margin, more voters say Michigan accepts “too many” Islamic immigrants versus those who say the state accepts “too few.” Even Democrats who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 tend to agree, with nearly double saying there are “too many” Muslim immigrants in the state compared with those who say there are “too few.”
.....Thanks to the profusion of Muslim immigrants primarily from Somalia, Islam is flourishing in Minneapolis, and the faithful are mainstreaming Sharia practices across the city. Like parts of Detroit, the Minneapolis area has struggled to integrate waves of Muslim migrants. Numbering roughly 80,000, Somalis now make up close to 20% of Minneapolis’ total population. The state’s largest city is now known as “Little Mogadishu,” after the capital of Somalia.
In Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside ward, where bazaars displaying Arabic signage and halal eateries have replaced once-popular bars and clubs, Islamic men have organized posses to patrol the streets and enforce Sharia law, including prohibiting alcohol and the mixing of sexes, and ordering women to wear head-to-toe religious garb, according to local reports. At the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the mostly Muslim taxi and Uber drivers are known to turn away non-Muslim passengers carrying alcohol or escorted by dogs (which are prohibited as pets in Islam). Muslim cashiers at Target and other stores selling groceries have even balked at scanning bacon, pepperoni pizza, and other pork-based products.
.....Omar’s Somalia homeland consistently ranks as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Critics warn that importing the values from nations like Somalia is creating an underworld of criminality in host cities across the U.S., in addition to the broader problem of Islamic customs and laws clashing with modern Western social norms.
“We have seen beautiful nations crying out for help. Germany, France, Sweden and other Western countries have opened their doors to the Islamic threat,” warned Krista Shields, who worked as an American Airlines flight attendant on 9/11 and now lobbies Texas legislators to ban Sharia in her state. “America must learn from their mistakes. If we do not fight back now, Sharia will eventually dominate this culture, and the America that millions fought and died for will cease to exist.”
Re: Portofino, Italy.
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There must be a way out of that bay that we can’t see, possibly on the left through the trees. The biggest boat in that picture would get NO enjoyment at all from moving around that tiny area.