Catrina Stackpoole, a lesbian in Hamtramck, Michigan, voiced the left’s feelings of betrayal that Hamtramck, now under the control of Islamic groups, blocked the display of homosexual flags: “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?”
The leftist/Islamic alliance is breaking down, and leftists are dismayed. They thought Muslims were another “people of color” victimhood group. These unwitting ethnocentrists never imagined that Muslims could have an agenda of their own.
“A Pride flag ban sparks accusations of betrayal in tiny Michigan city,” by Allan Lengel, Washington Post, September 17, 2023:
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — 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.
Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of the 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.
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.
“We welcomed you,” former council member Catrina Stackpoole, a retired social worker who identifies as gay, recalls telling the council this summer. “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?”
The council’s unanimous vote in the middle of Pride Month seemed intentional to Stackpoole and others, though the resolution banned not only the rainbow flag but all flags except for the U.S., state, city and POW/MIA banners. Mayor Amer Ghalib, 43, defends the action as one of neutrality, saying no group should be able to promote a political agenda on city property.
“We’re not targeting anybody,” he said recently. “We are trying to close the door for other groups that could be extremist or racist.”
Not everyone buys that.
“The sole purpose was absolutely to go after the gay pride flag,” maintains Josh Hansknecht, a local middle school teacher and president of the Hamtramck Queer Alliance. The issue has laid bare tension between the LGBTQ+ community and socially conservative Muslims like the mayor….
Disco Dave says
If only there were somewhat intelligent people in this Hamshank group thing. Then they would have realised what Islam’s record on homosexuality was and would have gone nowhere near the religion of peace.
Better late than never.
John Allan says
But NOT better TOO late!
Leah says
If they had only researched they’d know Islam is a theological & political ideology.😅😅😅
PRCS says
A theology is a system of government.
puzzled says
Hey lgbq etc…… islam says that the Judeo-Christain Archangel Gabriel told mohammy in a cave, to write down that Jews, Christians, homosexuals and dishonored women were to be murdered.
One of the guardians of GOD spoke to mohammy to do all these evil things and to write them down. Not Michael, or Uriel or Raphael……….but Gabriel. But mohammy was ignorant and could not write or read.
John Allan says
Well, you ASKED for what you got!
You should have realised NOT to help Islamists!
They WEREN’T – and AREN’T EVER – going to do anything for YOU!
Rob (Robin) Blair Harris says
In Muslim eyes no good deed by Westerners can go unpunished.
Emilie Green says
“, , , and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”
Said the frog as the scorpion leaped to the river bank.
BTeboe says
lol
Pray Hard says
We told you, Lefty. You didn’t listen.
Jean Gordon says
So what else is new?
somehistory says
the homosexuals expected preferential treatment as they had given the mozlums…scratching backs and all that.
mozlums are, like the homosexuals, in favor of their own kind being in control.
If the mozlums on the council actually keep the word of the mayor, there’s not much the homosexuals can do besides whine.
homosexuals thought up that ‘phobia’ thingy, and mozlums adopted it for their own use. And used the blindness of the homosexuals there to gain control of the town.
Pray Hard says
The moslem brotherhood or some similar organization contrived the “phobia thing”, not the homosexuals.
somehistory says
The homosexuals did it first….used the ‘phobia’ tag to embarrass those who don’t approve of the actions in order to silence the dissent.
” The term homophobia was coined in the late 1960s and was used prominently by George Weinberg, an American clinical psychologist, in his book Society and the Healthy Homosexual (1972).”
The islam o “phobia” was used first by a non-mozlum back in 1910 according to one source. But it was not used as a weapon to silence the public.
And another source said it was coined in response to the term Judeophobia.
However, not that long ago, the oic began to use the word in order to **silence** dissent against their goals, the violence, the rape, the spread and anything else infidels might not like and might just tell the Truth about islam.
And the *reason* they did that was because they saw the result of the homosexuals claiming a fear of their practices was at the bottom of people objecting.
One interesting paragraph from one source:
“As a term that specifically refers to the hostility of non-Muslims towards Muslims and Islam, it seems that the term ‘Islamophobia’ emerged in the course of eighties in England. The rise of the term parallels the strong growth in anti-racist discourse at that time. In the first instance, that discourse focused mainly on the racism that black citizens experienced in England, but gradually a stronger focus on specific migrant communities arose. The term Islamophobia, therefore, seems to have given British Muslims an advantage; on the one hand, one could insert one’s own experiences of discrimination into the prevailing anti-racist discourse and, on the other, one could also maintain a separate position.’
IMO, if the homosexuals had failed by using the term, mozlums would not have pounced on their ‘islam o’ as they have.
https://religionresearch.org/closer/2023/01/19/a-brief-and-incomplete-history-of-the-term-islamophobia/
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, while a part of me supports those of them who point out islam’s hypocrisy on the issue (see my post below), it’s actually hilarious to see these groomers getting stabbed in the back by people who’re even more unscrupulous than them
somehistory says
I have no sympathy. One gets the fruit of the seeds they sow.
mozlums are sowing many fields full, too. Weeds, evil weeds
Hoi Polloi says
I read a site for years (that wasn’t originally leftist; I watched it sink like a stone once that took hold) and commenters repeatedly tried to point out what they’d get for being this delusional. They always retreated to tantrums and charges of hate and phobia. No use crying now, lefties.
somehistory says
Some people are just too blind and like it that way….until they fall too deep to get out.
Rufolino says
“Hilarious” ? I don’t think.
All homosexuals are “groomers” ? (In your imagination perhaps.)
Maybe you have been studying the recent history of the Catholic Church.
Eva says
Hahahahaha!!!!
What else did they expect?
First the flags go, then the fags go.
This is what you get for collaborating with moslems.
Get used to it, because it’s only going to get worse.
Enjoy!!!!
Wellington says
This was inevitable. My money’s easily on the Buttlims prevailing because, though awful, they’re not foolish. Lefties, in contrast, have foolhardiness written all over them.
PRCS says
Location and population are prime factors here.
Hamtramck has a Muslim city council because that area is a no-nonsense Muslim majority area.
San Francisco has a Leftist city council because….
Billy Corr says
The Muzzies reproduce & gays do not
John Alder says
The worst is yet to come ! What did PT Barnum say about suckers?
Nohbody says
If you mean the birthrate thereof, he didn’t. That was from one of his competitors, David Hannum.
(Look up the Cardiff Giant hoax for more detail.)
John Alder says
Thank you. I looked it up and the article I read indicated much debate/confusion about who said it or didn’t. But the saying is proven accurate on a daily basis. But now I lnow Barnum did not say it.
Linde B. says
I visited Michigan in March 2019 and stayed in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Lansing. In Hamtramck I stayed at a nice and clean guest house where guests shared the living room, kitchen-dining room and bathrooms,
but had private bedrooms. Right next door to this guest house was a house where Muslims lived and we knew that because at 6:30 am every morning they started singing their unholy songs and they sang loudly so the neighboring homes could hear them.
I asked the guest house owner (he was a lawyer) if Hamtramck had noise ordinance laws, but he said he did not know! So now when I go on vacation, I ask the guest house owner if there are any houses close by with Muslims who sing at 6:30 am and after 10 pm at night. If there are, I seek out other overnight properties.
Pray Hard says
I suggest purchasing some parachutes, LGBT’ers.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Last week, on X, Dr Anastasia Maria Loupis, who seems to be a popular Danish influencer on X, posted a statement endorsing the muslims planning to support the million man march in Canada against LGBTQ. One of the respondents to her statement noted Muhammad marrying a 9 year old (okay, never mind the details here about Aisha being 6), and I responded as well. That thread snowballed, and I found myself being backed & cheered by people w/ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 flags in their names. It felt a bit weird, being supported by people who I normally not just disagree w/, but at one level, consider my enemies, but in this case, both sides are
They seemed to be an exception to the rule about the above story of the LGBTQ people who made their lives easier. Maybe the muslims will get along w/ them better once this coalition expands to 2SLGBTQIAMAP, where MAP means “minor attracted persons” i.e. pedos
Here is that thread
https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1703489960790151539
The Istanbulian says
It’s almost as if these people mistake a belief system for an ethnicity.
They should have welcome Assyrians, Yezidis, & Syrian Christians.
They’d have got better food and only church bells
Daniel Bielak says
“It’s almost as if these people mistake a belief system for an ethnicity.”
That’s exactly what they do.
James Lincoln says
Yes.
It’s a convenient – but false – association, Daniel.
Ray Jarman says
This is similar to Mary Shelley’s “The Last Manis” where a plague decimates the entire earth and only a small number of people survived. If one replaces the plague with Islam (which should be considered a plague) and the far left’s communist attempt to destroy values that make life worthwhile, one could create a movie with these themes. The trouble is that the movie could not be considered fiction since things are transpiring at the present time throughout Europe, America and elsewhere, as described here in the above article, it is more than likely that it will happen if good people don’t standup against both.
ElderlyZionist says
Don’t you know who you got into bed with? They think it’s not queer as long as they’re the ones on top.
Daniel Bielak says
Nice wordplay.
libertyORdeath says
I think this is a good example of the differences between the average leftist and the globalists/deep-state that actually controls the policy.
The run-of-the-mill leftist had no idea that muslims ACTUALLY HATE homos, trannies, pedophiles and groomers. They think evidence of REAL GENOCIDAL jew hatred is a right-wing conspiracy. They also seem to be totally unaware of the medieval culture in most Muslim countries. If they think constitutional conservatism is bad, just wait until they see some islamic fundamentalism!
Same goes for immigration. Leftists don’t want thousands of illegals moving into their neighborhoods any more than a conservative does, but they seem to think they will be insulated from their own ignorance apart from having some new gardeners and nannies.
We really need regular people to WAKE UP and start realizing that they are NOT part of the club – no matter how woke they act or how helpful they are in their own destruction. Every socialist revolution eventually turns on its most fervent supporters…especially when the revolution comes from the top down as it is today.
They’re not importing muslims and third-world Africans because they care about them. They just think (know) they’ll be easier to control than those pesky freedom loving Americans who have been spoiled with constitutional liberty for far too long.
Eva says
Once there’s enough of them in any country, there will be NO controlling the moslems, no matter what any government likes to think.
They’ll be the first ones to go, because although we put up with the traitors, the moslems won’t take that chance.
BTeboe says
Because the goal of Islam is, wherever it goes, is to implement Sharia law. Islam is a horrid political system.
James Lincoln says
libertyORdeath,
Excellent post, my compliments.
tim gallagher says
This might wake up a few more of the leftist fuckwits, who usually do not have a clue about the evil nature of islam, and might even get a few of them to go and try to learn a bit about the barbaric content of islam. It is a slow process trying to wake the left wing brigade up to islam’s vile nature. Most of the Hungarians, the Poles, the Czechs and the Slvakians seem to see islam clearly, but in western countries there are still far too many braindead clowns who think that islam is OK and peaceful. islam opposes everything about civilised, western life and Muslims are always only about imposes barbaric islam on all of us non-Muslims. These fools should not have helped the obvious enemy, the Muslims. These people who live in a fantasyland when it comes to islam endanger everybody with their gullible foolishness. islam is a clear enemy of all western values and freedoms.
mike says
Muslim’s are just like having a pet alligator
they will bit no matter what
Kepha says
Sorry, guys, but even the belatedly awakened LGBTQRSTUVWVYXYZ are never going to be allies against Islam of any kind. Their first, last, and always enemy is Jesus Christ and those who confess him. Organized perversion is a large part of the suicide of the West, and it is proud of being such. The Muslims are at least honest when they tell us we are filthy kufr or inferior Ahl-al-Kitab.
Rufolino says
“Hilarious” ? I don’t think.
All homosexuals are “groomers” ? (In your imagination perhaps.)
Maybe you have been studying the recent history of the Catholic Church.
tgusa says
For decades white progs have imported a huge number of people who are not down with their program. If white progs wanted a future where a majority supports their freak show they should have been importing white progs from Europe instead. But now the die has been cast and there’s really no going back for the white progs. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of bigoted aholes.
Fitna says
Well let’s hope this is a ‘teaching moment’ (as they like to say) for the Left…and that the word spreads like wildfire that Muslims will ultimately stab you in the back, no matter how nice you are and how much you help them.
Muslims only see the Left as a means to an end, useful idiots that help to advance Islam. If only the Left listened to the Right, and stopped calling them evil names like ‘far-right’ and Islamophobes, and instead united with us, then we might’ve stopped Islam already.
It’s still not too late, but we don’t want to let it get to the point where Muslims outnumber us, then who will stand up against them? There is still time while Muslims are a minority.
Despite the stupidity of the Left, they’re still better than Muslims…and we non-Muslims should put aside our differences and work together to defeat Islam.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“Despite the stupidity of the Left, they’re still better than Muslims”
But because of their large numbers, the Left is currently the bigger threat.
BTeboe says
Sounds like Catrina is a complete idiot when it comes to Islam. She needs to watch her six.
Walter Sieruk says
Those poor kind but naive people who spoke about the Muslim migrant they helped . They said “We did everything his transition easier and this is how he repaid us, by stabbing us in the back”
That is a very strong reminder of the fable of Aesop in which “A farmer was outsideon a bitter cold day, for a short time,to feed his animals and he came upon a viper that was freezing to death from the severe cold. The kind hearted but foolish felt sorry for it a picked it up and put in in his vest pocket to warm it up and save its live. So then the viper revived from the warmth and then bit through the vest of the farmer and so the farmer died a painful death for his action of kindness towards that viper.”
The message of the fable is that no amount of kindness will change an evil and dangerous nature.
That Muslim migrant has such an evil and dangerous nature because of his religion which is Islam.
Jayell1 says
“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?”
Forget all the LGBQTVWXYZ (thanks, Kepha!) business, this might as well be a statement from any Western community that gave muslims any kind of welcome, and the reason is clear. We in the West were always very keen to see the best in people, so it’s not at all surprising when even the most perceptive would have believed (wanted to believe) that these ostensibly ‘devout paragons of religious virtue’, who apparently worshipped the same God as anyone who worshipped a God in our parts of the planet, would have been good, respectful citizens who would have been a pleasure to accommodate. Unfortunately, since very few of us would have had Robert Spencer’s background motivation to examine these specimens properly, we ignored the lessons of their historical track record from the not-too-distant past and took them at the bogus face value that their equally bogus ‘prophet’ taught them to project – assuming they needed to be taught, that is! Now we find ourselves saddled with a consignment of demographic criminally toxic trash that appears to be multiplying like some malign organism that’s escaped from the ringfenced laboratory where it should have stayed in perpetual quarantine – and we remain too ‘nice’ to dispose of it as we should.
Well, Hamtramck might have learnt the lesson – hopefully not quite too late.
Glenn Geist says
Leftards are supremely stupid; this episode is just the 7,439,800,139th example in history.
OLD GUY says
It makes no sense at all why LGBTQ and Women would support islam/muslims given their record on how islam treats them.
Walter Sieruk says
With Quran- minded Muslims the saying ,very much, applies. Which is that no good deed will go unpunished.”
Geof Barrington says
All I can say is LOL
Ahairyfairy says
Catrina Stackpoole aint seen nothin yet….
John Forbes says
Awfully naive Americans!! Have they not bothered to look at what Muslims are taught about homosexuality and the KAFIR??? Get a KORAN and look or go to Dr Bill Warner and buy a book and listen or read!!