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The LGBTQ residents of Hamtramck, Michigan voiced their feelings of “betrayal” over the Muslim city council’s decision to remove Pride flags from public property, according to the Washington Post.
The council unanimously voted in June to ban Pride flags from public flag poles, citing a desire to respect the religious rights of citizens opposed to the symbol. This decision, months later, is still considered an act of betrayal by LGBTQ citizens to the symbol of “diversity” they hoped the council would uphold.
“Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of Hamtramck’s progressiveness. The Muslim community that had previously experienced discrimination, including voter intimidation and resistance to mosques’ public call to prayer, had finally taken its seats at the table,” the Post reported.
“Yet the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity that made Hamtramck something of a model is being put severely to the test. In June, after divisive debate, the six-member council blocked the display of Pride flags on city property — action that has angered allies and members of the LGBTQ+ community, who feel that the support they provided the immigrant groups has been reciprocated with betrayal,” the Washington Post added.
Referring to the Muslim refugees who immigrated to the community and then took over the local government, former council member Catrina Stackpoole, who identifies as gay, said, “We welcomed you… We created nonprofits to help feed, clothe, find housing. We did everything we could to make your transition here easier, and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”
Meanwhile, many local muslims support the mayor’s decision to ban the LGBTQ flags from public property. The Post wrote:
“I don’t like the fact that [the LGBTQ+ community is] publicly having these flags everywhere, and it’s being forced on me,” said Amin Haque, 26, an Uber driver who is of Bangladeshi descent. “There’s no problem being gay or lesbian, but keep it to yourself. Just don’t push it on us.”
The Washington Post wrote in their report:
This city of 28,000 was once so Polish it was dubbed “Little Warsaw.” But in recent decades, an influx of immigrants gave Hamtramck new character. Bengali and Arabic joined English on signs at City Hall. Yemeni and Bangladeshi mosques, restaurants and shops proliferated.
And last year, a Muslim who emigrated from Yemen as a teenager became mayor — the city’s first leader in nearly a century with no Polish roots — alongside what is believed to be the nation’s only all-Muslim city council.
An all-Muslim council’s decision to block the display of Pride flags on city property in a small Michigan town has angered allies and members of the LGBQT community, who feel the support they provided immigrant groups has been reciprocated with betrayal. https://t.co/SmIMcuLXft
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 16, 2023
The LGBTQ community supported Islamic communities to settle down in Hamtramck town of the Michigan state. Turns out that the all Muslim city council has now imposed a ban on the rainbow flags in the city. The community who demands to have Islamic prayer call blazing out from…
— A Vi (@africanshiva) September 17, 2023
LGBTQ community felt ‘betrayal’ at Muslim council voting to remove Pride flags from city buildings https://t.co/yUVmFOjEn7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 18, 2023
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