Jimmy Higgins
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I don't hate on groups of people... other than NY Jets fans who are all reprehensible people... as that is bigotry. I can not like what individuals stand for, but I'm not going to hate a group of people because a number of them have certain beliefs. You don't seem to get that. Also, you underestimate the power of materialism and how America has a tendency to mellow extremism... or at least used to.More on Michigan Muslims possibly delivering the state to Trump (despite his Muslim ban).
Turns out that it is not just the Gaza war that makes Trump attractive to Muslims - it is also his social conservatism.
A Muslim Mayor Endorses Trump, and a City of Immigrants Finds Itself Undone
And yet the so-called "liberals" are enamored of migration from the third world, even though those from there usually hold very illiberal positions.NY Times said:Amer Ghalib has made a lot of national news as the leader of a small, Midwestern city.
His election in 2021 as mayor of Hamtramck, Mich., was itself a headline. Mr. Ghalib, who is from Yemen, became the first Arab American and first Muslim to govern the city. And he was working with what was believed to be the first all-Muslim City Council in the country.
Two years later, Mr. Ghalib created another stir when he and other socially conservative Muslims banned the L.G.B.T.Q. Pride flag from publicly owned flagpoles, alarming liberals who said the move was discriminatory and harmful to the city’s welcoming reputation.
Their fears only heightened last month, after Mr. Ghalib endorsed Donald J. Trump, who as president had ushered in what is known as the Muslim ban, blocking immigrants from seven majority-Muslim nations, including Mr. Ghalib’s home country. Adding to the tensions was a visit by Mr. Trump, who hoped the mayor’s support could peel off a meaningful number of Muslim voters in Michigan, a swing state.
Explaining his support, Mr. Ghalib pointed to a distaste for liberal social views, anger at President Biden’s support of Israel and a belief that Mr. Trump will end the conflict in the Middle East.
Are we allowed to kick the Republicans out too because of their beliefs?Yes, who could ever have expected this outcome. They cheered the face-eating leopards taking over the city and now they are all surprised-Pikachu-face at the prospect of their their faces get eaten.In Hamtramck (pronounced “ham-tram-ick”), many longtime liberal residents, including members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, say they were dejected.
Over the years, they had actively encouraged the city of 30,000 residents, just north of downtown Detroit, to welcome immigrants. When Muslims won a majority of seats in the six-member City Council in 2015, they cheered the change as a rebuke to the anti-immigrant rhetoric used by Mr. Trump.
They had not expected this outcome.