Thanks to our friends and fellow Americans in Hamtramck, looks like that long-expected schism between the Left and its ersatz Mooselimb allies of convenience is finally underway.<\/p>\n
\n\u2018A sense of betrayal\u2019: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags<\/a><\/strong>
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<\/em><\/p>\nIn 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n
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 \u2013 like many others being flown around the country \u2013 been intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n
Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council\u2019s unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck\u2019s social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: \u201cFagless City\u201d, read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Follows, a toilet-load of the usual whiny shitlib claptrap (this IS the Grauniad<\/em> I\u2019m excerpting here, after all) about \u201crightwing agitators\u201d \u201cshoving\u201d genderqueerintersexnonbinaryminorattractedotherkins \u201cback into the closet,\u201d thereby effectively \u201cerasing\u201d them if not just genociding them outright. Back over to Hizzoner da Mayor for the kernel of actual, by-God truth here.<\/p>\n
\nTheir talking points mirror those made elsewhere: some Hamtramck Muslims say they simply want to protect children, and gay people should \u201ckeep it in their home\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
.Mayor Amer Ghalib, 43, who was elected in 2021 with 67% of the vote to become the nation\u2019s first Yemeni American mayor, told the Guardian<\/em> on Thursday he tries to govern fairly for everyone, but said LGBTQ+ supporters had stoked tension by \u201cforcing their agendas on others\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an overreaction to the situation, and some people are not willing to accept the fact that they lost,<\/strong>\u201d he said, referring to Majewski and recent elections that resulted in full control of the council by Muslim politicians.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Bold mine, because every word of it is perfectly,\u00a0inarguably true and accurate. Some of us have been insisting for years, over and over and over again, that Leftards needed to slow their roll a bit, before Normal Americans got pissed off enough to start slapping back at them. In fact, just the other day I said this<\/a>:<\/p>\n
\nMight the Hamtramck Muslims actually have put themselves, however inadvertently, at the pointy end of a Real American Renaissance here? After this, I don\u2019t know as I\u2019d be willing to bet against it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Taking the longer view, this Hamtramck brouhaha could easily turn out to be the most genuinely important news story of the year, far more so than whatever Sewer State pig-in-a-poke \u201cwins\u201d the 24 \u201celection.\u201d<\/p>\n
And so suddenly, against all odds and expectations, here we all are. Is it too late now for Leftwits to prevent what\u2019s coming at them next? After all the sick, intolerable depravity they\u2019ve tried to force down Normal gullets the past couple of years, one can only hope that it is, frankly. After all, it\u2019s not as if they weren’t warned, by plenty and to spare of us. Now let them<\/em> choke on it instead of us<\/em>, for a refreshing change of pace.<\/p>\n
(Via Insty<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n
Update!<\/strong><\/em> Looking back over this post for purposes of proofreading, this bit from the first excerpt sorta jumped out at me (bold mine again):<\/p>\n
\nThey viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke<\/strong> of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Of course, there was no rebuke at all; how could there have been, when there had been no \u201cIslamophobic rhetoric\u201d whatsoever, from Trump nor from anybody else? How deliciously ironic, then, that they now find\u00a0themselves<\/em> being rebuked, and quite deservedly at that. Not symbolically either, but directly, unequivocally, and\u2014dare I say it\u2014meaningfully<\/em>, too.<\/p>\n
Sit back and suck on it<\/em>, shitlibs. You asked for it, and now you\u2019re a-gonna get it\u2014good and hard. This is only the start of it, I\u2019d bet.<\/p>\n
Enough already update!<\/strong><\/em> Divemedic says he\u2019s over it, and with good reason<\/a>. I\u2019m over it myself, and I suspect many, many others are as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thanks to our friends and fellow Americans in Hamtramck, looks like that long-expected schism between the Left and its ersatz Mooselimb allies of convenience is finally underway. \u2018A sense of betrayal\u2019: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flagsMany liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan,…<\/p>\n