Posted on 06/19/2023 12:05:58 PM PDT by Drew68
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.”
For about a century, Polish and Ukrainian Catholics dominated politics in Hamtramck...
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Did liberals expect something different?
Gay Sex flag
How DARE Muslims act like Muslims!
It’s okay if they wear those stupid head scarfs so that they can Muslim signal, but they MUST accept the LGBTQIA2S+XYZ people or they are no better than Christians.
Allah wahoo Whackbar!
No fudge packers Allah!
☪️💪
They need to vote out Tlaib and Omar.
They banned all political flags.
Ban the pride flag, or heave a homo off a roof. Which would you prefer, libs?
Oh my, more of how multiculturalism and mass immigration both create very divisive and self contradictory results. Bet liberals are very proud of something like this, eh?
I actually said this would happen somewhere in the US 12 years ago. Most Muslims in the US really didn’t push back on the Far Left with the gay agenda. But if they came for the kids I said they would retaliate. Well, they have retaliated.
Yep. Quote from later down the article:
Guess whose more scared of whom.
What else does one expect from muslims?
Is she not aware of their propensity to behead people and throw homosexuals off the tops of tall buildings?
Which is ironic in light of their child bride culture.
Did this doofus really think that LGBTQ-whatever was going to go over well with Muslims? I could have predicted this 50 years ago this wasn't going to work out too well for the alphabet community.
Do these people really live in this echo chamber, where they actually believe their pathologies were going to be accepted outside of their "community"?
Notice how they state, as fact, that Trump had a “central theme” of “islamaphobic” rhetoric.
Yes
People who love their children - people of all races and religions - are more likely to stand with us than than with evil democrat sexual weirdos...
Wokism vs Muslism. May the death count it end in a tie.
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