- Sun Nov 22, 2015 9:39 am
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Earlier this month, the blue-collar city that has been home to Polish Catholic immigrants and their descendents for more than a century became what demographers think is the first jurisdiction in the nation to elect aNow the big question is, which is worse a Muslim created ghetto or a black created ghetto? Clown why don't you shed your wisdom on the subject, so why do they destroy and change everything when either group gains control?
majority-Muslim council.
It’s the second tipping for Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-tram-ik), which in 2013 earned the distinction becoming of what appears to be the first majority-Muslim city in the United States following the arrival of thousands of immigrants from Yemen, Bangladesh and Bosnia over a decade.
In many ways, Hamtramck is a microcosm of the fears gripping parts of the country since the Islamic State’s attacks on Paris: The influx of Muslims here has profoundly unsettled some residents of the town long known for its love of dancing, beer, paczki pastries and the pope.
The once-thriving factory city of 22,000 now struggles with one of the highest poverty rates in Michigan. In 2009, American Axle shut down its plant in Hamtramck, laying off hundreds of workers.
Most of the women wear hijabs, or headscarves, and niqabs, veils that leave only the area around the eyes open. Many of the markets advertise their wares in Arabic or Bengali, and some display signs telling customers that owners will return shortly — gone to pray. The city counsel has made it a crime to interrupt a Muslim during prayer and given permission to al-Islah Islamic Centers to broadcast their calls to prayer from speakers atop its roof.
- By johnforbes