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“This City Council truly represents all the elements of Hamtramck history, whether they are Arabs, South Asian or European descendants,” one expert said. Country's first all-Muslim city ...
A member of the Democratic Party, he worked with what was believed to be the first all-Muslim city council in the United States. [4] [5] In June 2023, the city council banned the pride flag from publicly owned flagpoles with Ghalib stating that he "intended to bring neutrality to city property without promoting sexuality, racism, religion or ...
The mayor of the first US city to have an all-Muslim city council has endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan,...
Michigan’s Muslim and Arab-American voters may have made all the difference in Trump’s historic victory, in which he swept all seven swing states to earn 312 electoral votes.
Chelsea incorporated as a village in 1889. [5] The Chelsea courthouse is housed in a 120-year-old bank building in downtown. [6] The village of Chelsea incorporated into a city in 2004. In 2011, the downtown area of Chelsea was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Chelsea Commercial Historic District.
In 2013 the city council of Hamtramck became the first in the U.S. that was Muslim majority. [6] [7] By 2015 many Muslim women in the Detroit area asked to be able to wear hijab in public places and in any identification photographs. Several municipalities are having to determine how to deal with producing identification photographs of Muslim ...
Republican Donald Trump appealed to Muslim voters in Michigan on Saturday as Michelle Obama made an impassioned plea on behalf of Kamala Harris at the Democrat's own rally in the battleground state.
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) said on Sunday the Muslim community in Michigan trusts former President Trump over Vice President Harris to guide Middle East policy. “For the people of the state of ...