Hamtramck, MI, Becomes First U.S. City with Muslim-Majority Council.
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“Muslim political comments about Hamtramck causes concern,” FOX 2 Detroit, November 7, 2015
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – History in Hamtramck as voters elected the first majority Muslim city council in the country.
But rather than ease racial tensions, the comments from a Muslim organizer threaten to divide.
It was a historic moment Tuesday, but followed by a controversial comment that may create or widen the rift between the growing Muslim and shrinking Polish community in Hamtramck.
“Today we show the Polish and everybody else,” said Ibrahim Algahim in cell phone video.
The comments touched a nerve.
It came after Hamtramck voters elected America’s first Muslim majority city council in a town where the Polish community held the power for decades. Cathie Lisinki-Gordon, a former councilmember, was one of Tuesday’s losers and was surprised at the comment. “I’m shocked that he said that. I’m a very good friend of his,” she said. “I cannot believe that he would ever profile any select group. Especially when his community has felt ostracized and profiled for many years.” The statement was immediately rebuffed by many present at the Muslim candidates’ victory lab Saad Almasmari, the top vote getter, was one of them…
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – History in Hamtramck as voters elected the first majority Muslim city council in the country.
But rather than ease racial tensions, the comments from a Muslim organizer threaten to divide.
It was a historic moment Tuesday, but followed by a controversial comment that may create or widen the rift between the growing Muslim and shrinking Polish community in Hamtramck.
“Today we show the Polish and everybody else,” said Ibrahim Algahim in cell phone video.
The comments touched a nerve.
It came after Hamtramck voters elected America’s first Muslim majority city council in a town where the Polish community held the power for decades. Cathie Lisinki-Gordon, a former councilmember, was one of Tuesday’s losers and was surprised at the comment. “I’m shocked that he said that. I’m a very good friend of his,” she said. “I cannot believe that he would ever profile any select group. Especially when his community has felt ostracized and profiled for many years.” The statement was immediately rebuffed by many present at the Muslim candidates’ victory lab Saad Almasmari, the top vote getter, was one of them…
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The city will become a wife beating zone.
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In 2005 the mosque, located just outside the south eastern border of Hamtramck, was the largest mosque out of the ten within a three-mile radius. Sally Howell, author of "Competing for Muslims: New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit", wrote that the mosque "has been credited" by public officials and area Muslims "with having turned around one of Detroit's roughest neighborhoods at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, making its streets safe, revitalizing a dormant housing market, attracting new business to the area, and laying the foundation for an ethnically mixed, highly visible Muslim population in Detroit and Hamtramck."
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Too bad, sometimes muslims can even do good things, where white folk failed.....
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Too bad, sometimes muslims can even do good things, where white folk failed.....
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sez teh nazi from muricah
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I need my eyes checked - maybe time to spring for LASIK after all.
I read that username as "PoopingTom."
I read that username as "PoopingTom."
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So we should expect a name change of the city?
nope.
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So we should expect a name change of the city?
Yep, into "Muhammad Ali Town"
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YEP! ... next!
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that's right..pick on the newbies! they will learn to ignore you dork!
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No, rumor is that they only want Kowalski to process turkey.
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No more Kielbasa.
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This is a tragedy of historic proportion, after all, Hamtramck has been Polish since time immemorial, since long before the Potawatomi, Sauk, and Fox dwelt there. It's completely unthinkable that a people could be displaced from their homeland by newcomers from another continent...
This is a tragedy of historic proportion, after all, Hamtramck has been Polish since time immemorial, since long before the Potawatomi, Sauk, and Fox dwelt there. It's completely unthinkable that a people could be displaced from their homeland by newcomers from another continent...
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