A majority Muslim Michigan city’s decision to distance the government from promoting “Pride” left local progressives voicing “a sense of betrayal” despite having brought the result on themselves.
The same leftists who patted themselves on the backs for paving the way for Hamtramck, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, to elect the nation’s first Yemeni American mayor and an all Muslim city council have entered a tailspin over a blanket ban on the display of flags not representative of the city, state or federal government.
Speaking with the Guardian, former Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski expressed, “There’s a sense of betrayal. We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”
Majewski went on to argue that in 2005 the then-Christian-majority city council had allowed for the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast from mosques within their jurisdiction despite objections from non-Muslim residents.
As had been reported, the council had stressed that the ban only pertained to public property and council member Nayeem Choudhury had said, “You guys are welcome. [But] why do you have to have the flag show on government property to be represented? You’re already represented. We already know who you are.”
All-Muslim council in Michigan city bans Pride flags on public property amid bizarre protest https://t.co/nmpm6CvmMB via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) June 15, 2023
The idea that Hamtramck was a diverse community had supposedly been a draw for Hayley Cain who purported that as her reason to relocate there from California. Speaking with the Associated Press she said now, “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. You can’t stop that.”
Transgenderist activist Gracie Cadieux called the ban “an erasure of the queer community and an attempt to shove queer people back in the closet,” while also claiming, “We aren’t in the business of excluding people from our society and I’m not going to exclude socially conservative Muslims…However, they cannot, and will not, shove another community out of the way.”
CNN also jumped on the bandwagon with a misrepresentation of what the council had done as they tweeted, “As communities across the United States celebrate June as Pride Month, a city near Detroit, Michigan, has voted to permanently ban the display of Pride flags on public property.”
That claim garnered them the Community Notes treatment as Twitter users flagged the misleading post adding, “Missing context. The all-Muslim Hamtramck City Council on Tuesday banned the display of religious, ethnic, racial, and political flags and states that the city won’t provide ‘special treatment to any group.'”
As communities across the United States celebrate June as Pride Month, a city near Detroit, Michigan, has voted to permanently ban the display of Pride flags on public property https://t.co/1au1lQsmzX
— CNN (@CNN) June 16, 2023
The claim and the outrage from leftists continued efforts to frame themselves as victims in need of special treatment, an argument President Joe Biden himself had made with the backing of PolitiFact who defended his suggestion “When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still very wrong in America,” as “mostly true” ignoring the reality that that was essentially true of anyone, regardless of sexual preference.
Politifact rates Biden’s claim gay Americans ‘can be tossed from restaurants’ mostly true https://t.co/XvBMfmQCRG via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) June 19, 2023
As current Mayor Amer Ghalib expressed, “It’s disappointing that some media tries to make it sound as it’s an attack against [the] LGBTQ group. I have many members of this group in my boards and commissions that I appointed and we get along well. I will continue to serve and treat everyone equally, but in this resolution, we block the doors in front of any other radical or racist group that would come and ask for their flag to be flown in the city properties.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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