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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Wokism vs Muslism. May the death count end in a tie.
And may autocorrect stop inserting words into my text.
So you have the potential of seeing what you're seeing now, and that is one group on the left doing something to another group on the left that goes against what each group believes.
Why did anyone think muzzies would become gutless wusses and give up their belief system when they got into power? It’s only Republicans who do that.
I want those perverts to stage a muslim mockery day for the Detroit Tigers....
Christians should be thoroughly embarrassed by this. A small muslim population is doing more to fight the war against the alphabet people than the Christians are. But go ahead and keep turning the other cheek.
The LGBTQ group should really count their blessings and move on. I’m not in charge.
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