Mayor of America’s First Muslim Majority City Council Declares ‘No Peace’ With Israel.
Mayor of America’s First Muslim Majority City Council Declares ‘No Peace’ With Israel.
The Michigan city has undergone a radical demographic transformation due to mass migration – Ghalib is himself a Yemeni migrant.
JACK MONTGOMERY - OCTOBER 11, 2023
The Mayor of Hamtramck – America’s first Muslim-majority city council – Amer Ghalib, responded to the past week’s events in the Middle East with a pro-Hamas message insisting: “Peace can never coexist with occupation and injustice, anywhere and at anytime، no matter how strong the oppressor or how weak the oppressed is!”
Mayor Ghalib, who became the Hamtramck’s first mayor without a Polish background for a century in 2021, added there “are enough lessons from history for some people to learn this principle.”
The Michigan city has undergone a radical demographic transformation due to mass migration – Ghalib is himself a Yemeni migrant.
Like Ghalib, most of the city councilmen have a history of posting anti-Israel or outright anti-Semitic content online. Councilman Khalil Refai, for example, has referred to Israelis as “Zionist criminals” and called on Allah to help Muslims “plant firmly our feet and give us victory over the disbelieving people” in Israel. Councilman Mohammed Hassan, meanwhile, has shared images depicting Jewish people as monkeys, and denounced Israel as “the real terrorist!!!”
There are similar issues elsewhere in Michigan, with Dearborn’s Mayor Abdullah Hammoud responding to the Hamas attack with a long social media post suggesting the mass murder of Israeli civilians was the “inevitable” consequence of the “occupation”.
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