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Muslims (immovable object) vs unstoppable force (Wokeism)Liberals Voice 'Sense Of Betrayal' After Muslim-Ruled MI City Bans Pride Flags
Liberals who cheered when a Michigan city elected America's first Muslim-majority city council are now voicing a "sense of betrayal" after the council voted to ban LGBT Pride flags from city property.
In 2015, Hamtramck, Michigan -- a Detroit suburb and former Polish and Ukrainian enclave -- put itself in an international spotlight when Muslims were elected to four of six city council positions. As the Guardian recounts, liberals rejoiced:
Fast forward another seven and a half years, and -- as people of European descent represent an increasingly smaller proportion of the electorate -- that slim majority has evolved into a monopoly, with all six slots filled not just by Muslims, but by Muslim men.
Now liberals are recoiling after the city council on Tuesday voted unanimously to bar Pride flags from being displayed on city property, as part of a prohibition that bars "religious, ethnic, racial, political or sexual orientation group flags."
Bangladeshi-American council member Mohammed Hassan listens to public comments (Sarahbeth Maney/Detroit Free Press/USA Today Network via KWWL)
“There’s a sense of betrayal,” said former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, a Polish-American. “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”
Mayor Amer Ghalib, a Yemeni-American, told the Guardian that LGBTQ advocates are creating tension by "forcing their agendas on others." He added, "There is an overreaction to the situation, and some people are not willing to accept the fact that they lost."
An overflow crowd listens as the Hamtramck city council meeting considers banning Pride flags at public buildings (Robin Buckson/The Detroit News via AP)
A dismayed Hayley Cain told Associated Press that she moved to Hamtramck from California because it had a reputation as a diverse community. “I’m questioning whether it is...The pride flag represents making space for all humans on all the spectrums, and this is where we’re going as a human species,” she said. “You can’t stop that.”
"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."
