With Controversial Actions, Amer Ghalib Impacts LGBTQ+ Community: Unveiling the Complexities of Liberal America

2023-06-22 08:00:58

– In Michigan, a Muslim mayor betrays liberal America

Amer Ghalib, mayor of Hamtramck, delights Islamists and conservatives, but angers the LGBTQ+ community.

Massimo Basile – «The Republic»

Posted today at 10:00 a.m.

The mayor of Hamtramck has decided to forever ban the display of rainbow flags in public buildings during Pride Month.

AFP

When Amer Ghalib, America’s first Yemeni-Muslim mayor, was elected two years ago, Democrats took to the streets and threw confetti as he walked by. They said Hamtramck, a suburb of 30,000 on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, the first to have a Muslim-majority City Council, had provided the multicultural answer to Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric.

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