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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned

- 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.

- same council voted to ban pride flags on city property

- Muslims said to be proud of being in a “fa9 less city”

- historical polish community feels backstabbed

“ 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.”

[b]— Muslim city council passéd law allowing “backyard animal sacrifice” [/b]

*do dmv Muslims do this?

- white, Christian-majority city council in 2005 created an ordinance to allow the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast from the city’s mosques five times daily. It did so over objections of white city residents, and Majewski said she didn’t see the same reciprocity with roles reversed.

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I know lots of muslims, some would support and others would oppose, just like people of any other religion. All people don't act in unison just because they were born or raised in same religion. [/quote]

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