The breakdown of the Leftist/Islamic alliance was inevitable, and it was also inevitable that Leftists would get the worst of it, as Iran’s Communist Tudeh party did when it backed the Ayatollah Khomeini, only to have him throw members of the party into prison once he attained power.
Former Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski sounded a plaintive note: “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.” Anyone who has studied the history of Islam, and particularly alliances between Muslims and non-Muslims, could have seen this coming. Such alliances have never, throughout history, inspired a sense of gratitude in the Muslim party that led to a period in which Muslims and non-Muslims lived together as equals. Instead, the Muslim party turned on its non-Muslim allies again and again, once the alliance was no longer convenient.
One notorious example of this was the fourteenth-century Roman Emperor John VI Kantakuzenos, who appealed to Muslims for help in a dynastic dispute. They came into Europe and stayed. And they did not hesitate to continue to wage jihad against the Roman Empire, which they finally destroyed in 1453.
An update on this story. “A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags,” by Tom Perkins, Guardian, June 17, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.
They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.
This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property that had – like many others being flown around the country – been intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council’s unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck’s social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: “Fagless City”, read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing.
In a tense monologue before the vote, Councilmember Mohammed Hassan shouted his justification at LGBTQ+ supporters: “I’m working for the people, what the majority of the people like.”
While Hamtramck is still viewed as a bastion of multiculturalism, the difficulties of local governance and living among neighbors with different cultural values quickly set in following the 2015 election. Some leaders and residents are now bitter political enemies engaged in a series of often vicious battles over the city’s direction, and the Pride flag controversy represents a crescendo in tension.
“There’s a sense of betrayal,” said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, who is Polish American. “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”…
The resolution, which also prohibits the display of flags with ethnic, racist and political views, comes at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are under assault worldwide, and other US cities have passed similar bans, with the vast majority driven by often white politically conservative Americans.
Bruce D Watt says
The non Muslims have no sense of how literal the practitioners of the religion think and act. invite the sodomites into the minarets and show them what happens. just wait till the stoning and amputations start.
Fred Alan Medforth says
Austria: Police thwart an Islamist attack on the Pride Parade. French Antifa leader Raphael Arnault claims, “Everywhere the far-right is attacking LGBTI rights, including in the streets. Let’s stop them!”
https://medforth.biz/austria-police-thwart-an-islamist-attack-on-the-pride-parade-french-antifa-leader-raphael-arnault-claims-everywhere-the-far-right-is-attacking-lgbti-rights-including-in-the-streets-lets-stop/
somehistory says
According to your post, it’s not the “far right” they should be trying to stop.
Afraid to put the blame where it belongs.
gravenimage says
+1
abu taleb says
In many cases, the so called “far-right attack” is nothing more than some people showing their opinion about the LGBTQ+ and/or sharing Bible verses with other people, or even wearing a aT-shirt which says something like “There Are Only 2 Genders”. That is not a violent attack at all, it is just freedom of speech.
Compare to what the LGBTQ+ supporters do to the conservative people, definitely it is the conservative who are most likely the victims.
The Istanbulian says
Religious Islam is far right
John Pepple says
This is the way I’ve always thought of it, and I had assumed the left did the same, so I wondered what on earth made them want to partner with the far right. One day when a liberal friend was complaining about the “far right,” I asked her, “And how do you classify ISIS?” I expected her to either back down and agree with me that of course ISIS was further to the right than any American, or to insist that ISIS was on the left, after which I would ask her if she really wanted an outfit that approved of slavery being counted as leftist. She took neither of those tacks. She said, “I didn’t think they were on the political spectrum.”
The mindset of leftists who think Muslims are their friends baffles me.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No it’s not! It’s far Left. It’s a totalitarian control of every aspect of life of people, and that too, geared towards a communal goal of supremacy over all non-members. Completely different from any other real religion that does have a level of control over people, but w/ a goal of a greater good towards one’s family & community
That’s the problem w/ identifying islam as a religion like Christianity or Buddhism: one assigns the same attributes of the latter to the former. When in fact, islam is nothing like the others
PRCS says
As Islam is VERY conservative, so too are Muslims.
an says
Islam is not a religion. It is a violent cult. Historically, from the very inception, they have been traitors. This is a sample of what is in store for America. Bernie Sanders is being taken for granted by Rashida Tlaib. She is calling him “AAMU-uncle” but will stab him in the back one day.
pfwag says
Protest at the Mosques!
The istanbulian says
Joke’s on them; islam was never being threatened
mgoldberg says
It’s just the beginning…. muslims are correct to object to these issues forced upon their school children, but wait tll all the other demands come up. And the leftists will be so very dismayed. And uncomprehending.
PRCS says
It does seem they’ll never comprehend.
Kesselman says
All Muslims either swing the sword or support those swinging the sword. None can be trusted. Unpredictably, anybody may switch from supporter to swordsman in a heartbeat. One out of every seven US KIAs in Afghanistan are Green-on-Blue: US-trained Afghan troops turning their guns on us.
People willing to murder their children to please a fictional deity are deadly serious about their cause. Their will to fight is much greater than ours. They’ve been focused on Worldwide Dar al-Islam for 1400 years. They will never give up until we’re all converted, subjugated, or dead.
Athmanathan Seetharaman says
Excellent comment. Leftists deserve this severe blow. LGBTQ community I think includes people who have undefined sexual parts. Read Arabian Nights to know more about how Muslim women were titillating experiences in the company of such transgender persons. Muslim men also practiced sodomy but secretly. All those fundamentals should be shot down.
somehistory says
And we all knew this moment would arrive. As Mr. Spencer writes, it was “inevitable.”
and the ones who keep going as they please, are those who are willing to slaughter those who disagree and refuse to bow down to the false god.
when the “residents” celebrated and gave support to the mozlums, they refused to see the writing on the wall about the crocks and what they eat. Now the crocks of hamtramck are hungrier than ever and they have plenty of “liberals” to eat.
DHZ says
Muslims are the World’s most prolific bridge burners.
Pray Hard says
There are never any bridges to begin with.
Jayell1 says
Were muslims ever capable of building bridges, physical or metaphorical, in the first place?
Fitna says
As I’ve been saying for years and also famous thinkers like Douglas Murray, we’re moving at the speed of the dumbest kids in the class.
Many of us figured out Islam was a civilizational threat on 9/11. Sadly the Left refused to educate themselves on this evil ideology and have had to learn the hard way.
Muslims play victims when they’re minorities and align with Leftist causes to garner support. Ofc once they become strong enough, then they always stab their allies in the back as we know (and sometimes literally).
Have these Lefties learned their lesson? I doubt it-just look at France, the center-Left parties like Macron’s continue to get major support, despite all the gang-raping, terrorism and other violent crimes that everyone knows is mostly caused by Muslim men.
The West is going to hell in a handbasket because of its own failings, to learn about the dangers it faces, then to adequately deal with them. Ofc there is a lot of corruption going on as well, in the ruling class as well as the media/intelligentsia…that all works to the advantage of a backwards death cult bend on our conquest.
Fortunately there are ‘antibodies’ in this cancer, and hopefully if people like Eric Zemmour and other anti-Islamic groups/activities/parties gain power, then there is still a chance we can save our freedom and way of life…but the longer we allow the cancer of Islam to grow, the harder it’ll be to eliminate.
The next 20-30 will be absolutely pivotal and will determine whether some if not all western nations will be Islamified or will expel the decaying disease from within its body politic.
Fitna says
*20-30 years…if not sooner.
Tbh, we’re losing the fight so far…because of political correctness, because of politicians giving legitimacy to the fake ‘Islamophobia’ myth, as well as cowardice and refusal to publicly discuss this danger and lastly the refusal of elites to shut down borders and to take this threat seriously, among other reason.
If we don’t develop a backbone and publicly denounce Islam as a fascist evil ideology for fear of backlash, then Muslims will bully us all into silence, submission and force us to live under their barbaric rule. People need to organize and demand Islam is ended in the West.
bill says
Who invente PC? The Americans of course, and it was eagerly embraced by the rest of the English speaking world. I thought at the time it would end badly.
Fitna says
Agreed Bill, it’s come back to bite them in the azz. It is only by confronting ugly truths that we can fix them. Lying to ourselves, esp. about other groups/communities which follow evil ideologies only makes the problem worse.
Bexarkat says
Israel is the only nation in the region to give support to the Gay movement. There are ill-feelings from the religious, but the government endorses pride parades. For a very long time the LBGTQ++++++++ movement has supported Palestinians over Israel. They have their comeuppance with this!
gravenimage says
There are gay people who also support Israel and are anti-Jihad. But you are right that all too many have accepted the kool aid that Muslims are allies who support them.
Another point: the only “Palestinian” gay rights organization had to headquarter in…you guessed it, Israel.
Pray Hard says
L.M.A.O.
James Lincoln says
Hamtramck Leftists are now experiencing severe cognitive dissonance.
And they can’t blame it on Trump, climate change, etc.
gravenimage says
Yep.
PRCS says
Absolutely!
Wellington says
Dispositive again of how much those who continue to function in Leftworld and Moland deserve each other.
After all, two evils temporarily aligned can never make anything right, though they can—will—eventually turn upon one another. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact of August of 1939 serves as a fine example of this verity. Now we have another in our time.
Larry Estavan says
Here is Karen Majewski in one of the most ridiculous CAIR TV broadcasts.
This was so bad, even the TV station couldn’t save CAIR from having egg on their face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK-Flg2bOa4
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.
PRCS says
Thanks Larry.
Reminding, here, that Majewski recently said ““We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”…
Wonder what her position re: ICE is now.
tim gallagher says
I have been waiting for the left wingers, with their progressive type of agenda, and the Muslims, who really are complete knuckle dragging throwbacks on so many issues, to begin to fall into conflict. It always has seemed to be a weird, idiotic alliance and obviously has only existed because both groups hate our western way of life and both want to destroy it. It will be entertaining to watch the scum on both sides tear into one another.
PRCS says
So many of our friends and neighbors think the word conservative applies to politics alone.
But:
ADJECTIVE
averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values:
NOUN
a person who is averse to change and holds traditional values:
As regards religion, Muslims are not merely averse to change, they are vehemently opposed to it. Even violently opposed as we know.
Doubtful the happy “community” will realize Islam is not progressive before the crocodile eats them, too.
Stock up on popcorn.
tim gallagher says
I think you’re right, PRCS. I also doubt whether they will wake up in time. I feel that almost evrybody should have woken up to islam’s vile nature by now, but the ability for some people to simply refuse to face up to unpalatable truths is staggering. As for islam, well it is really all about dragging most aspects of the way humans live their lives back to the way people in Arabia lived in the 7th century, the good old days in their idiotic opinion, when their ideal person, Muhammad, lived his life. That is why i call Muslims knuckle draggers. To want to live in the way 7th century Arabs lived is totally barbaric. That left wingers form an alliance with such people is almost beyond belief.
PRCS says
Yep, knuckle-draggers is an apt description.
gravenimage says
‘There’s a sense of betrayal’: Leftists enraged as Muslim-governed Michigan city bans ‘Pride’ flags
Former Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski sounded a plaintive note: “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”
………………………………….
Anyone paying the slightest attention should have seen this coming.
somehistory says
Al Jazeera
“Muslims opposed to LGBTQ curricula for their kids aren’t bigots”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/muslims-opposed-to-lgbtq-curricula-for-their-kids-aren-t-bigots/ar-AA1cJyLM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9ae8a4e8876c40f9b21932866862737a&ei=51
tgusa says
There’s a sense of stupidity. Fixed it.
“Leftists enraged” Is it wrong to hope their heads explode?
Fitna says
I’m with you on this Tgusa….hopefully the destruction to the Left-Islam alliance is massive and irreparable.
At the very least, the Left after will stay out of our way in our fight against Islam (rather than aid Muslims) and on a positive note, hopefully they will instead unite with the Right if they too finally realize what a real danger Islam is to our civilization.
But either way, the disassociation btw Islam and the Left is a good thing for us all.
I give credit to the Christians, despite their dislike of the LGBT community for not uniting with Muslims against them.
We non-Muslims don’t have to like each other but it is to all our benefit if Christians, Atheists, LGBT, Hindus, Jews, etc all put aside our differences to fight the one enemy that wants to eliminate us all…then when Islam is gone we can go back to ‘normal.’
PRCS says
“I give credit to the Christians, despite their dislike of the LGBT community for not uniting with Muslims against them.”
I do, too, and hope it remains that way.
tgusa says
Fitna. They wont ever stay out of our way. They will still do what they are doing. They will never unite with us. The two groups are opposite side of the same coin. They want us destroyed or dead. Their plan is for all of us, except their master class, living like their inner city blacks live. Hopeless helpless miserable. Personally, I think it is too late, the Republic is finished, they killed it. Unless of course we want to live as slaves subject to their whims and wants, which change all the time.
They have left us no other choice but to go our separate ways. They can have the muslims, we should insist. We will probably have to fight them later but by then, my bet is, we will be fighting mostly muslims. Those guys will get rid of the safe space left for us, even in a minority. They will never stop until their rotten mission is accomplished. I would rather live free than live under them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This is the funniest story I continue to read about. Maybe coming up next week, Hamtramck City Council approves of the building of minarets to throw LGBTQIA+ people to their deaths
I really wish all the LGBTQIA+ thugs throughout the country descended on Hamtramck, followed then by muslims all over the country. Detroit would be an extended zoo
Billy Corr says
To quote the venerable “Guardian” –
“The resolution, which also prohibits the display of flags with ethnic, racist and political views, comes at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are under assault worldwide, and other US cities have passed similar bans, with the vast majority driven by often white politically conservative Americans.”
The reality is that the past few years have seen the trannies, in particular, eager to shove their agenda down our gullets.
One can argue that the antics of a handful of trannies have done far greater harm to the causes dear to the hearts of mainstream gays, male and female, than all the real homophobes – demented Evangelicals, for example, have achieved.
Gunter Deleyn says
The New York Times spins this in a very specific way. Michelle Goldberg on 16 June puts the blame on conservatives. She remains silent about the previous enthusiastic support from the democrats for the Muslim council and mayor.
Andy Paul says
History would tell anyone with the wit and humility to read it and learn from it that there is no co-existence with Islam and that to expect to the contrary is death.
Ian Wilson says
No flags will be allowed.
And next week
Except the Palestinian flag.
ed says
Does the first amendment apply?
Ban moslems
wpm says
This whole “pride” movement ,pride month, pride flag every holiday be it Halloween, St Patrick day ,Christmas ,has to include not just an accepting of Gay couples doing normal family gatherings. It has to go full force display of lewdness in parades ,trans story hour to children , gay porn stories to grade school kids. Gay pride is now a woke religious cause ,much like climate change, Islam does not accept other religious ,be they Jewish ,Christian, or wokeness. The left does not understand Islam will use violence, lawfare ,and terror to get their way .Not all religions are equal, and peaceful in enforcing their laws on nonbelievers ,Islam you either are with them or you are the enemy to be wiped out or enslaved.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Given this aspect, the LGBTQIA+ thugs have run into the right enemies – jihadists who’ve determined that LGBTQIA+ is definitely unislamic for muslim families, and therefore, are on a head-on confrontation w/ them
wpm says
Yes even a broken clock has the right time twice a day .Islam is that broken clock when it comes to grooming kids by the gay woke mafia .Normal gay people live their lives like straight people and leave children alone ,keep their sexual activity in their own bedroom ,go to work pay their bills, and keep their personal lives private .If the queer mafia force every third grader to read about gay porn in public schools ,and be exposed them to adult men dressed like female strippers reading to them at public schools more power to the Islamic parents to do what all parents should do and protect their kids.
pfwag says
When the Muslims take over and enact Sharia, the lefties will be right behind the Jews in getting their heads chopped off. The LGBTQ+ folks might even go to the front of the line.
If they had any balls, they’d be protesting at every Mosque.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
We don’t allow neo-nazis into this country, but the whoring politicians openly embrace the arrival of the follower of a fictitious mass murdering, sex slave owning, racist, pedophile. So surprise, surprise. Now we’re stuck with them.
John Pepple says
Mr. Spencer, you’ve got this wrong. It was much worse for leftists in Iran than you describe. Thousands of leftists were murdered. In fact, there are some who claim that as many as 100,000 were murdered. Many others fled from Iran and went to the Soviet Union.
I have brought this episode up repeatedly to leftists since 9/11, only to have them give me a blank look. They’ve never heard of it. One of them wondered what the leftists had done to provoke the Muslims to kill them. Incredible.
NoTaqiyya says
The misguided Lefties are so naïve to believe the Islamofascists are their friends, it would be laughable were it not so tragic for the alphabet people.
The same people who in the lands were being one gets you thrown off building’s roof tops. And if you survive the fall, a pack of hyenas is waiting to finish you off…
Yet the most amazing ignorance is displayed by the alphabet people when they carry banners in their parades with the delusional slogan, “Queers Against Islamophobia.” LOL
pfwag says
Muslims are you’re friends when it suits them, but when they stop practicing taqiyya, the truth comes out in word and deed.
Islam is a Borg sex cult. Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated… or else.
Alice says
Exactly.
tgusa says
There are way to many Eves among us in the West.
Shalom says
Lots of excellent comments on this story.