elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015.."
Posted on 06/17/2023 6:54:06 PM PDT by grundle
Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.
They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.
This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property that had – like many others being flown around the country – been intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council’s unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck’s social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: “Fagless City”, read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing.
In a tense monologue before the vote, Councilmember Mohammed Hassan shouted his justification at LGBTQ+ supporters: “I’m working for the people, what the majority of the people like.”
While Hamtramck is still viewed as a bastion of multiculturalism, the difficulties of local governance and living among neighbors with different cultural values quickly set in following the 2015 election. Some leaders and residents are now bitter political enemies engaged in a series of often vicious battles over the city’s direction, and the Pride flag controversy represents a crescendo in tension.
“There’s a sense of betrayal,” said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, who is Polish American. “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”
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If you watched any of the people who spoke in favor of banning any but the U.S. flags what you would hear was support and gratitude for being in the U.S. Which is why they only want the U.S. flag (The state flag would be o.k. as well.)
The Lord foresaw the Tribe of Esau as a tool to beat wokesters.
The reason they want the U.S. flag to be the only flag (state flag an exception) allowed in public buildings is because (in their own words) they are grateful for being here and for what the U.S. flag stands for.
“I’m working for the people, what the majority of the people like.”
What a novel idea.
I can agree with that sentiment!
You reap what you sew.
imagine that! the same group that wants to throw you off a building turns on you! I am thinking those microagressions from Christians don’t seem so bad now!
Good news. I knew a Muslim family from that area when I lived in LA. Not a veil in sight. Doctors, lawyers, and a movie producer whose partner was Jewish. Granddad had a huge supermarket chain in that area. He had come as a poor immigrant, opened a corner grocery store and grew it to a huge supermarket chain, living the American dream.
So truly, muzzies are not all idiots.
Hamtramck is a Muslim majority town. They’re not all jihadi idiots, they make decent livings and live decent lives.
You got what you voted for
You got what you voted for
You got what you voted for
Be happy they didn’t throw anyone off a tall building
Just wait until the first tranny goes flying off a roof top.
Yep. The muzzies used to be the libs favorite “victims” even though they abhor everything the libs promote.
But why, Muslims?!?!? We are trying to destroy Western Civilization just as much as you are! You should embrace us LGBTQP+ as allies.
Do we need to add another stripe to the rainbow and pastel flag for you like we did for the black and brown people? What color would you like?
BTTT!!!
Andrew Tate is now Muslim. He pointed out that the Western men are the last holdouts. The Western Church may fall apart. The Orthodox Church might be the last Christian Church standing but their two largest nations are fighting each other in a Slavic Civil War.
Kind of funny though, the Islamic folks appear to be the sane ones in Hamtramck.
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