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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Hamtramck, MI, Becomes First U.S. City with Muslim-Majority Council, Hilarity Ensues

Nov 10, 2015 2:53 pm By Robert Spencer

In PJ Media today, I show how there was almost immediately trouble in the multiculturalist paradise:

Ibrahim Algahim

The nation’s first, but certainly not last, majority-Muslim city council has just been elected in Hamtramck, Michigan, a historically Polish city. But before anyone could break out the sparkling grape juice and toast our new diversity, Ibrahim Algahim — a Muslim activist in Hamtramck – crowed at a victory party:

Today we show the Polish, and everybody else.

Multicultural euphoria, meet Islamic supremacist reality. Algahim, at least, was not ready to link arms and sing “Kumbaya,” as the diverse peoples of Hamtramck marched towards multicultural harmony. Randy Wimbley of Fox 2 Detroit reported:

[H]istory [was made] in Hamtramck as voters elected the first majority Muslim city council in the country.

But rather than ease racial tensions, the comments from a Muslim organizer threaten to divide. [Algahim’s comment] may create or widen the rift between the growing Muslim and shrinking Polish community in Hamtramck.

 

One of those with rising tensions was one of the defeated — and Polish — city council candidates, Cathie Lisinki-Gordon:

I’m shocked that he said that. I’m a very good friend of his. I cannot believe that he would ever profile any select group. Especially when his community has felt ostracized and profiled for many years.

So ostracized and profiled … that they were able to gain a majority on the city council.

Lisinski-Gordon’s shock at her good friend Algahim’s words apparently stems from her assumption that Muslims are victims of bigotry and “Islamophobia,” and should thus know better than to take a hostile stance toward another group. Muslims, as the primary victims in today’s victimhood-obsessed culture, should be most energetic in carrying the multiculturalist torch and welcoming diversity, rather than encouraging tribalism and division.

Even though Algahim spoiled the party, no one was ready to declare Hamtramck’s exemplary exercise in diversity a failure. Bill Meyer, a supporter of Algahim, defended him:

What Algahim was saying at the time was he was meaning that the Yemeni and Bangladeshi communities worked together to go forward with a successful election. … The ultimate goal is to work together. We’ve got a great possibility of showing the world how great people can work together, ethnic groups can work together, to solve problems.

Of course. What better way to say “our communities worked together” than “today we show the Polish”?

Leaving aside the salient fact that Islam is a belief system held by people of all ethnicities and not an ethnic group, the key problem with Meyer’s hope is that Ibrahim Algahim’s victory statement strongly suggested that he, and possibly the Muslim councilmen, are not quite as multicultural as Meyer, Lisinski-Gordon, and others assume them to be.

But people like Lisinski-Gordon and Meyer wouldn’t dream of entertaining that possibility. That would place them in the camp of “racists” and “Islamophobes.” They’d rather go to Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State, than go there.

Will we see any supremacist and pro-Sharia initiatives from this city council? Yes, if they decide to set out on a course designed to “show the Polish and everybody else.” Everywhere in the world that Muslims have ever held political power, non-Muslims have suffered a diminution of their rights. Generally it begins with demands that they curtail behavior that violates Islamic law or offends Muslim sensibilities, and it develops into an increasingly precarious day-to-day existence….

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  1. gravenimage says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    As always, whenever Muslims gain the upper hand the very first thing the do is threaten Infidels.

    • Ashley says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 3:05 pm

      “Today we show the Polish, and everybody else.”
      ________________

      I agree, Gravin. That is not an ever-so-subtle threat. It is hostile and menacing.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 11, 2015 at 10:47 pm

        Ashley, great to see you posting again.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 3:06 pm

      They are a direct threat to Infidels even when in bed asleep at night, *that* is what they are: threats to civilized humans. It would be better if they were creeping around the floor of a jungle in Borneo somewhere, with big bones in their hands to pound in the skulls of others. But Moslems are a sociable people, they need productive people to live off of. Infidels.

      • particolor says

        Nov 11, 2015 at 4:07 am

        Yes But ? Has He been Invited to the White House yet for a Celebratory Dinner, And a peek at the New Coo Coo’s Clock ! 🙂 🙂

    • Wellington says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 9:08 pm

      Agreed, gravenimage. Muslims and threats go hand-in-hand. Have for some 1400 years now and this functions as just one more reason to oppose the most putrid religion of all time.

      Like you, I despise Islam. No one of sense and proper knowledge should do otherwise. Unfortunately, such sense and knowledge is at a premium these days (though it isn’t rocket science). Kinda’ makes me long for another century, say the 8th with Charles Martel at Tours in 732 when, though “other things” like liberty had not nearly been figured out yet, at least produced people in charge who understood that Islam was rotten to the core, a giant negative for Western Civilization, and must be denied its warped desires (anyone in today’s Sweden getting this?).

      No modern Charles Martel in sight nowadays. Instead, the West offers up Merkels, Obamas, Mays, Kerrys and Camerons aplenty. And herein lies the real problem, as I know you know, for the West, to wit, not Islam but those in charge of the present West who will not confront, accurately name and call out this longest-lived and best disguised of all spiritual totalitarianisms in all of man’s history. The sin upon the heads of these present wretched leaders of the West even more than upon the gigantic sin and affront to mankind which is Islam and its massively deluded followers.

      I have read too much history and have lived too long not to loathe enablers of evil more than evil itself. Herein, I would argue, resides the true and accurate epitaph of the weaklings who now lead the West.

      • Westman says

        Nov 10, 2015 at 10:50 pm

        If the West is ultimately saved it will be by the citizens kicking the laissez-faire leaders aside. When, in modern times, has there been a more parasitic, lazy, and cowardly set of leaders in the West?

        Islam with it’s consistent and constant aggressive testing of the West smells weakness. Watching “refugees” aggressively insist on being accepted by the countries with the most lucrative benefits should have awakened Westetn leadership. But they are so busy dining on the special interest table and humming Kumbaya, that corruptive diabetes has slowly shortened their eyesight.

        • Wellington says

          Nov 12, 2015 at 4:49 pm

          I agree, Westman, with all that you wrote.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 11, 2015 at 10:50 pm

        I long for another Churchill, Welllington. But it is good for us to keep in mind how weak enablers there were, even then. I still believe we can rise to the occasion–no matter how belatedly.

        • Wellington says

          Nov 12, 2015 at 4:48 pm

          “I still believe we can rise to the occasion–no matter how belatedly.”

          So do I, gravenimage. I’ll never give up. What’s the point in doing so? Besides, better to go down into the abyss fighting for liberty than being beholden to Muslims and Allah.

          Something else and it’s this: I believe in the long run Islam will be exposed for the heinous belief system that it is and freedom will prevail. It will be a bloody journey for mankind till then but I remain optimistic about “a happy ending.” After all, way down inside I’m a rank sentimentalist.

    • mezcukor says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 9:17 am

      Very true and this stupid woman who trusted them as friends got what she deserved

  2. Dave says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    ‘One of those with rising tensions was one of the defeated — and Polish — city council candidates, Cathie Lisinki-Gordon:

    I’m shocked that he said that. I’m a very good friend of his. I cannot believe that he would ever profile any select group. Especially when his community has felt ostracized and profiled for many years.’

    Ms. Lisinki-Gordon, you and your fellow Muslim sympathizing leftists are quite naive and foolish. This would simply be amusing, were it not for the consequences. Years ago, when the socialistic democracies of western Europe opened their borders to essentially unlimited immigration from the 3rd world, you began a slow but irreversible process of cultural, racial, economic, and demographic suicide. Your economies do not generate, and will never generate, enough tax revenue to finance all the ‘benefits’ you impart to your new Muslim citizens. Those citizens overwhelmingly do not seek to assimilate and become law abiding, tax paying Polish citizens. They are simply biding their time until they are the majority population, as they now are in Hamtramck. They will, as they have in Hamtramck, elect Muslims to every conceivable political office. They will implement and impose their way of life on you, your families, and your fellow native Poles. They will simply destroy your nation and your way of life using your own laws. And if you dare lift a finger to stop the destruction, you will immediately be ostracized as a racist by them and by a great many of your fellow native Poles who are still too stupid to realize what is happening to a once great nation.

    • particolor says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 4:14 am

      Well Lisinki- Gordon should have read ..Its Takiyya all the way till they get on Top !! 🙂
      Stiff Polish Sausage now !!

    • Dacritic says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 7:10 pm

      Miss Gordon (and those with her on the Left) still has a lot of “shocked”-ing to do.

  3. wildjew says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    Florida Mayor takes bold stand against Terrorism!

    November 20, 2014

    Mayor Kent Guinn, Ocala, Florida.

    Mayor Kent Guinn took a bold stand against terrorism on Tuesday, when he and the City Council rejected attempts by terrorist sympathizer Manal Fakhoury (pictured above) to marry the city of Ocala, Florida to Ramallah, Palestine via Sister Cities International, a United Nations driven initiative…..

    http://drrichswier.com/2014/11/20/florida-mayor-takes-bold-stand-terrorism/

  4. eduardo odraude says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    Meanwhile, death threats from Muslims have already chilled free speech in the U.S. Very few people today are willing to speak publicly in their own name in criticism of anything in Islam.

    What is really shameful is that those on the Left who try to exculpate Islam do not do or say much of anything to protect from violence and threats those who might disagree or wish to criticize Islam and are silent because they don’t want a halal target on their backs for the rest of their lives.

    If your opponent in an argument is silenced by death threats from a third party, while your own side of the argument is under no threat, and you just keep arguing your view as though public discourse were still normal and complete, you are an idiot or a scoundrel.

  5. somehistory says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    Not many groups of people, after having been mistreated would be *big enough* or *man enough* to not play the get-even game upon gaining power over the group that mistreated them
    The Bible says not to return evil for evil, but it is a difficult command to keep and not many can in all situations.

    However, not electing someone to power is not *mistreatment* and not wanting to take up another’s culture and religion is not discrimination in the *bigotry* sense, either.

    In this case, the moslims weren’t mistreated, or profiled, etc. They weren’t discriminated against or they wouldn’t have been elected to manage the city. But, there will be *pay-back* because that is their aim.
    They will, now that they are the majority of the votes to carry decisions about the city, make decisions with bias in favor of moslims and against the best interests of all others…the “Polish” and *everybody else* who will get *shown.*

    It would be great if the *showing* came in the form of being nice and leaving off the unlawful strictures of the ungodly commands of islam’s unholy book. The Polish and everybody else shouldn’t hold their breath for that kind of *showing.*

  6. Mahendra Singh says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 4:33 pm

    Could someone educate me on what “PJ” in PJ media means?

    Thanks

    • wildjew says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 4:38 pm

      Pajamas Media?

  7. Angemon says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Hamtramck, MI, Becomes First U.S. City with Muslim-Majority Council, Hilarity Ensues

    As the saying goes: it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Or a limb, chopped for shoplifting. Or a head.

    • particolor says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 4:25 am

      And the Council Rates will now be Renamed …JIZRA !! 🙂 🙂

  8. Tom says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    I am actually glad we’ll have this little petri dish in Michigan so Americans can see Muslims driving an American governmental entity into the crap hole, just like they have done everywhere they gain power. Beirut Lebanon, Gaza, entire sections of London and Paris, parts of the Twin cities. Does anyone doubt it will be any different in Hamtrack? I encourage liberty-oriented Universities and think tanks to baseline their case studies now and follow this one for several years

  9. mortimer says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    “today we show the Polish”?

    It sounds Hitlerian.

    Muslims are the new Nazis. They are the oldest fascist association in continuous existence.

    • susan says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 8:25 am

      Show the Polish? What a laugh, considering that the Polish now make up only 10% of Hamtramck’ s population. They bailed years ago. The Muslims sniff out a dying community, and like vermin, move in and take over. Let’s watch and see if the median household income for Hamtramck rises from its current $25k. What’s next – Detroit?

  10. Bob Ingersoll says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    I want to know what kind of prayers they’ll have before city council meetings. Wacko evangelistic Christers in rural US have been ramping up their idiotic prayers before government boards and commissions, instead of just doing their job for everyone. Now the shoe may be on the other foot, with an Islamic butt in the air and Arabic chants — just like the solemn boneheaded Christers in Town of Greece. Time to separate church and state, folks, especially now that it is also mosque and state.

    • Davegreybeard says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 11:28 pm

      Why it’s pompous arrogant Bob, that sees himself in such an elevated position so as to tell the rest of us what to do and think

      Tell me, Pompous Bob, have you considered the fact that only a fool would go out of his way to insult our “Christer” allies?

      No, of course you haven’t because you have a moral position quite similar to our Jihadist enemy.

      You a Muslim, Pompous Bob?

    • Westman says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 12:44 am

      I think we can all agree that even though we may or may not belong to a religious organization we all have a belief that freedom must prevail as a philosophy of life and opportunity.

      Dwelling on religious and tribal differences has made a disaster out of some Muslim countries and it will surely do the same to the West if do not unite around self-determination and stop emphasizing differences. The hordes invading Europe are counting on disunity.

  11. Westman says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    The Poles, some of them are my relatives, even tell Polish jokes about themselves. Can we expect the Muslims to display their own supreme sense of humor with some Muslim jokes? I’m waiting expectantly.

  12. pdxnag says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    Local media is making a stink about a local city councilor saying on Facebook that he thinks Islam is pure evil.

    http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2015/11/10/dallas-city-councilor-doubles-down-anti-islam-views/75543100/

    http://koin.com/2015/11/10/oregon-councilor-muslims-in-office-will-destroy-the-us/

    They won’t stop until his political future comes to an immediate halt.

    • Mirren10 says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 7:37 am

      It sounds like Mr Garus totally *gets it* about islam and muslims.

      All the Americans here should be writing to him, congratulating him, and assuring him **he is not alone**.

      • pdxnag says

        Nov 11, 2015 at 4:19 pm

        I also like this link as supporting argument: Raymond Ibrahim: Islam’s ‘Rule of Numbers’
        http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-rule-of-numbers-and-the-london-beheading/

        (text and embedded video at link)

        “The question is, how long will leftist media and politicians refuse to face reality, including by propagating the false “grievance” claim, which, once Muslims reach enough numbers—as is projected for Europe—will be discarded for the full-blown jihad?”

  13. Dave J says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 12:03 am

    We are in charge now, so we extend our hand – the one holding the sword – to you.

    They really seem to relish their inner bully hood.

  14. citycat says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 1:28 am

    Not to return evil for evil means not to get involved in their low vampiric shenanigans/vibrations because then one’s spiritual stance would be compromized, and one would be playing their game.
    You hone up your energies holywise until the enemy automatically self-destruct.
    As all Christians know, Jesus was top-man-yogi.
    It does not mean do nothing or send them love, unless it’s virused with disadvantages thoughts.
    Something along them lines.

    • Davegreybeard says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 10:03 am

      @citycat
      “You hone up your energies holywise until the enemy automatically self-destruct.”

      Well citycat, after 1400 years of murder, mayhem and rape, the great Christian centers of learning at Antioch and Alexandria are still under the Muslim boot. Islam is having a very vigorous revival – it shows ZERO indication of “self destruction.”

      So you, your Christian brethren and all the rest of us are going to have to get off our collective asses and actually drive a stake through its evil heart.

      Praying is fine, but it’s not nearly enough.

  15. Louis says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 3:38 am

    Stupid Poles. They should have read the Koran before they put these Muslims in control.

    It is written in the Koran that it is lawful for Muslims to deceive the Infidel.

    Now they will reap what they have sown……Abuse of the Infidel read Christian Poles.

  16. BC says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 4:43 am

    I have seen at least 3 reports on this election they all focus on the remark of the Muslim councillor.
    It would be useful to know the relative proportion of Muslims to non Muslims in the area, the number of councillors and so on.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 10:59 pm

      BC, the Census does not tally religion, but Hamtramck is about 50% Arab, Asian Indian, Albanian, Bangladesh, Lebanese, Pakistani, and Iraqi–many of whom can reasonably be assumed to be Muslim.

      The town is only 10% Polish at this point.

  17. Patriotliz says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 5:14 pm

    And so we have it…the not so “stealth” jihad… or…Progressive Islamofascism.
    And here is the Left wing dhimmi multiculturalism on parade. It is becoming harder and harder for God to Bless America if it’s citizens are so determined that they want to commit national suicide. Multiculturalism replaces/destroys American Nationalism.

  18. citycat says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    “Praying is fine but it’s not nearly enough.”
    Absolutely

  19. Aussie Crusader says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 10:13 pm

    2010 census shows 44% of the population in Hamtramck are from majority muslim countries. His comment, of course, is very Islamic. Hamtramck is down the toilet. Probably more to follow. Wake up world.

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