The queer left might have a masochistic love affair with Islam, but the fawning adulation isn’t returned. At least, not once Islam has its hands on the levers of power.
Just ask the Iranian communists who supported the Khomeinist revolution – only to find themselves up against the wall as soon as the Islamic regime seized power. Tens of thousands were imprisoned and later massacred.
They never learn.
Michigan’s sizeable and not politically powerful Islamic community isn’t massacring the ‘Queers for Palestine’ types. Yet. But they’re keeping their own backs firmly against the wall.
And ‘queer’ Michiganders are fast finding that there aren’t many rainbow flags under the crescent. And Democrat-appointed judges aren’t about to take their side against a politically powerful immigrant community.
A federal judge has upheld a ban on gay pride flags after a years-long battle by an all-Muslim city council to remove the rainbow because it did not reflect their community’s values.
The court found that Hamtramck, an enclave surrounded by Detroit with a significant Muslim immigrant population, did not violate the US Constitution when it banned the flag from public buildings in 2023.
After a pride flag was flown in the city during Pride Month in 2021 and 2022, the city council said it clashed with the beliefs of some residents, so they voted to allow only five flags to be flown on publicly owned property.
Try making that argument in a Christian community and see how far it gets.
US District Judge David Lawson, who was appointed by Bill Clinton, dismissed a lawsuit that was brought against the city for its flag restrictions, saying the ban was okay because the policy targeted all private flags.
Kind of like how it was OK for Funny Moustache Man to refuse to shake hands with Jesse Owens, so long as his refusal targeted all athletes.
Meanwhile, Mark Steyn’s rhetorical question of which would be around in 10 years – the gay pride stuff or the women in hijab – has been answered just as we knew it would be. At least, once a tipping point is reached.
Hamtramck has a population of around 27,000, and more than 40 per cent of its residents are immigrants. A large proportion of them are Muslim with Yemeni or Bangladeshi descent.
The city is right next to Dearborn, a larger enclave city in the Detroit area that the Wall Street Journal once called ‘America’s Jihad Capital’ in a piece that claimed the city’s leadership supported Hamas and Hezbollah.
And, just like that, ‘coexist’ becomes, ‘Get your haram flags outta here!’
Hamtramck’s flag ban controversy began percolating in 2021 when the city council at the time narrowly voted in favor of raising a pride flag in a public park.
That moment began a public conversation among the city’s leadership about its role in engaging with LGBTQ rights. Some mayoral candidates at the time and current city council members signed a ‘Statement of Unity’ to reaffirm diversity and inclusivity in Hamtramck.
Of the three currently serving city council members that were involved in the conversation, only one of them, Muhith Mahmood, signed the document. Councilmembers Khalil Refai and Abu Musa did not sign.
Musa also faced controversy last month after he was caught stuffing an election drop box with absentee ballots on camera days before he won his re-election bid in a local primary.
Ah, yes, that election fraud we were told was just a right-wing conspiracy.
Meanwhile, no word on the rumours that the city will be renamed from Hamtramck to Halaltramck.
