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Mayor of only Muslim-run city in US endorses Trump for election
Al Jazeera ^ | Sep 2024

Posted on 10/08/2024 12:20:41 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

The mayor of the only city in the United States with an all-Muslim government has endorsed former President Donald Trump for November’s presidential election.

Amer Ghalib, who leads the city of Hamtramck in the crucial battleground state of Michigan, said on Sunday that the Republican candidate is a “man of principles” and “the right choice”, despite their disagreements on some issues.

“President Trump and I may not agree on everything, but I know he is a man of principles,” Ghalib said in a post on Facebook.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: amerghalib; arabs; dearborn; deerborne; gaza; genderdysphoria; ghalib; hamtramck; homosexualagenda; islam; lebanon; mayor; michigan; muslim; muslims; oldnews; searchworks; talib; trump; whitmer
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1 posted on 10/08/2024 12:20:41 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

That’s amazing! How did Trump pull this off?
What did he offer the Muslims that Kamala & the Gang did not?


2 posted on 10/08/2024 12:24:44 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
A lot of these people came from muddy dirty hovels which they hoped that had forever left behind. Kambala wants to restore that lifestyle in America. These successful muslims don't want to give their tax dollars to layabouts in Detroit.

3 posted on 10/08/2024 12:25:22 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: lee martell
What did he offer the Muslims that Kamala & the Gang did not?

Peace?

4 posted on 10/08/2024 12:27:12 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: lee martell
More Muslims are in business than the average American. Why would they want to split their wealth with Kambala's Kinfolk?

5 posted on 10/08/2024 12:27:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; lee martell

Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib fires back at politicians criticizing city’s LGBTQ flag ban

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2023/06/18/hamtramck-mayor-amer-ghalib-lgbtq-flag-protest/70333600007/

Facing criticism from some elected officials in metro Detroit, Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib is defending a resolution he supported that banned the display of LGBTQ+ and political flags from city property.

The six-member Hamtramck City Council voted unanimously last Tuesday to approve the resolution that prohibits the flying on government property flags symbolizing sexual orientation, race, religion and politics. The move was criticized by a range of elected officials in Michigan, including state Sen. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit, whose district includes Hamtramck, U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Detroit, whose district includes Hamtramck, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Oakland County Executive David Coulter and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, among others.

“For those politicians who don’t understand the situation in Hamtramck but they released statements to criticize us for passing” the resolution, Ghalib said in a statement released Saturday afternoon, “you do not know our city more than we do, and you will not know the consequences of opening the door for every group to fly their flag on city properties. Our residents are all equally important to us, and we will continue to serve them equally without discrimination, favoritism or preferential treatment to any group. The city government will stay NEUTRAL and IMPARTIAL toward its residents.”


6 posted on 10/08/2024 12:35:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Amer Ghalib has seen the heavy hand of Islam - and it’s very similar to the heavy hand of Marxism. That’s my guess why he’s supporting Trump.


7 posted on 10/08/2024 12:38:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Corrupt ABC referees/mods trying to throw the game to Kamala made Kamala look worse.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’ve heard that muslims are not happy with biden/harris


8 posted on 10/08/2024 12:39:54 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
In June 2023, the city drew scrutiny for its ban of the rainbow flag on city property and perceived homophobia. -wikipedia
9 posted on 10/08/2024 12:47:31 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
The Biden junta tried a proxy approach (not the first issue they'd tried that with) to become the white line down the middle of the road and it failed miserably. Also, the smell of death clinging to the Harris campaign is easy to detect.

10 posted on 10/08/2024 12:49:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: 1Old Pro

The only folks happy with this current regime are limousine socialists.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 12:51:09 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Selections from the keyword, sorted:

12 posted on 10/08/2024 12:59:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Saw this a while back. Trump is the best bet for peace in
the Middle-East, and global stability. This does make some
sort of sense in the overall scheme of things.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 1:12:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

That’s big!


14 posted on 10/08/2024 1:57:21 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Talib’s head exploded!!!! Hamtram is hers.


15 posted on 10/08/2024 2:07:38 PM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

One partly serious guess. Kamala and aides sat down in his office and offered him next to nothing including no guarantee of stomping on Netanyahu and Israel.

He said: “Our conversation is at an end. Khalid and Omar, show our guests the way to the parking lot exit.”


16 posted on 10/08/2024 2:09:07 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
mayor of the only city in the United States with an all-Muslim government

Hmm.

17 posted on 10/08/2024 2:20:05 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: lee martell

There is a big Muslim population in SE Michigan because:
1) people wanted to escape terrorists
2) there were jobs in Detroit
3) good middle eastern food.

They do not speak with one voice.


18 posted on 10/08/2024 2:21:52 PM PDT by cookcounty (Uuuuuuhh.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The two major Muslim areas in Michigan are different. Dearborn (and a portion of Detroit adjacent to it) grew slowly from the white only Mayor Orville Hubbard* days to parity and now majority of Muslims. Most here since the 1960s and 1970s and then expanding.

Hamtramck, inside Detroit, was overwhelmingly Polish American when I attended Wayne State University in the late 1960s. It later suddenly had new immigrants to gain the majority in recent decades only.

From Hamtramck Review:
“Hamtramck has a substantial Chaldean population (referring today, essentially, to those Catholic former Iraqis), and a growing Yemeni population.”


There is a local radio show Epiphany on Ave Maria Radio (Catholic station) that stars Vanessa Denha Garmo who is a Chaldean woman. She says often her Chaldean friends are strongly conservative. He father and mother were anti-Communists.

Not allowed to literally campaign for Trump (religious rules), she still pushes his views and attacks the Dems every day on her show. She guests on her friend Theresa Tomeo’s national show and both blast the Dems brutally and encourage listeners to register and vote to stop the Dems.

* Hubbard’s statue was removed from a proud position in Dearborn to an undisclosed building interior after some threatened to tear it down during woke protests.


19 posted on 10/08/2024 2:23:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

this was not supposed to happen


20 posted on 10/08/2024 4:47:26 PM PDT by Jeff Vader (!!)
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