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‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags

"Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations"

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.”

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

Tell me if I'm posting too much in this thread. Suddenly my timeline is full with this shit

Decades of pretending like fundamentalist Christians are the only religion that doesn't condone gay shit will do this to you. Hilarious. There is no betrayal, this is who they always were. 

There's this weird liberal obsession with finding new groups of people to be...well, the new black people. A group or demographic that does what you want every 2-4 years, doesn't really focus on anything deemed problematic to you, and who can be activated whenever you want. They've tried it with Hispanics and it's not really working as planned. They're tried it with Asians and affirmative action/racism is getting in the way. 

The history and evolution of the black/democrat union is unique and cannot be simply replicated. I have no issue with that union BTW, and think it's a justified partnership. I'm just saying no one else has the historical situation to lead to that again.