Mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan: ‘Noble Islam promotes doing good and abandoning evil’

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/01/mayor-of-hamtramck-michigan-noble-islam-promotes-doing-good-and-abandoning-evil;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

No, Mr. Ghalib.  Islam is the only mainstream religion that does not promote “respecting others and treating them well,” at least when it comes to women and non-Muslims. Islam sanctions violence against disbelievers, hatred against Jews (and thus the state of Israel), and the inferiority of women. While adherents of other faiths outside of Islam may also commit violence, hate those who are different in creed or race, and mistreat women, it isn’t sanctioned in their religions.

One need only look at Sharia states which have no freedom of religion, equality for women and they arbitrarily detain human rights advocates/dissidents. The persecution of Christians and other minorities over 1400 years is not a figment of anyone’s imagination; nor is it an anomaly in Islam.

Preempting any Islamophobic backlash or fear, Ghalib assured citizens that they should not expect any changes from an all-Muslim city government, just efforts to revitalize city infrastructure and a commitment to serve its people. “There is no difference, because we are all bound by the city regulations and the country’s constitution, with laws and regulations that we cannot violate,” he said.

There is a big difference. A few examples of Islamic influence in America: pushing the “Islamophobia” subterfuge to curb free speech (the cornerstone of a free society) when that speech offends Muslims; fueling the pro-Palestinian lobby, which perpetuates antisemitism and pro-Palestinian special interests in Congress, who managed briefly to strike Iron Dome funding from a US budget bill.

“Michigan city council becomes first all-Muslim led government in the US,” Arab News, January 17, 2022:

HAMTRAMCK, Michigan: Hamtramck, Michigan is the first city in the US to be led by an all-Muslim government.

A city of mostly Polish-Americans for 99 years, locals say the population has gradually shifted to now be over half Arab-Americans. And in its 100th year, the city’s leaders reflect that change.

“It was a historic achievement that’s never happened before for the Arabs and immigrants,” Amer Ghalib, Hamtramck mayor, told Arab News.

“And I think it inspired many of the youth to go for this field and made them confident in themselves and of their abilities and that they have become an inseparable part of the fabric of this society,” he added.

The Yemeni-born mayor leads Hamtramck alongside the elected city council which, with the exception of one American-born convert to Islam, is made up entirely of Arab immigrants.

Having moved when he was 17, Ghalib considers the two square miles that make up Hamtramck to be his mother city.

“I feel proud and I feel a big responsibility and this is why we have to work very hard to prove that we, as immigrants, can work and succeed in managerial, public service, and political fields in this country,” he said.

Preempting any Islamaphobic backlash or fear, Ghalib assured citizens that they should not expect any changes from an all-Muslim city government, just efforts to revitalize city infrastructure and a commitment to serve its people.

“There is no difference, because we are all bound by the city regulations and the country’s constitution, with laws and regulations that we cannot violate,” he said….