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SHARIAHVILLE, USA: CITIES 'SURRENDER' TO ISLAM
Controversy flares over America's 1st Muslim-majority city council
LEO HOHMANN
Downtown Hamtramck, Michigan
A city on the outskirts of Detroit known since 1920 as a thriving Polish community has been fully transformed by globalism and the federal government’s Islamic immigration program.
The bulk of the change has occurred over the past 20 years, but it started in the 1970s with the globalization of the auto industry and mass immigration.
Hamtramck, known affectionately as “Poletown” by Detroiters and Michiganians for its bustling district of Polish restaurants, markets and beautiful Catholic churches, last week become the nation’s first city to elect a Muslim-majority city council – sending three Muslims to join one incumbent who was not up for re-election.
In butcher shops that once offered juicy Polish sausages in refrigerated display cases, female customers wearing hijabs now purchase halal meats blessed by an imam.
The sound of church bells has given way to the chant of a Muslim holy man giving the call to prayer in Arabic.
Many of the storefronts have been converted to mosques, and the call to prayer is blasted over loudspeakers five times a day. Poletown has been transformed. Some critics in neighboring communities call it Shariahville.
Within hours of the historic election, Muslim political organizer Ibrahim Algahim was caught on video giving a chilling warning: “Now we show the Polish and everybody else, that…” he said, as cheers drowned out the rest of his words. (See video below.)
And now it's spreading. The city of Sterling Heights, about 14 miles to the north, is on the front lines of a contentious battle between the Muslim community with its progressive backers, and those who would rather not see their city transformed in the image of Hamtramck.
The Sterling Heights planning board voted 9-0 to reject plans for a mega-mosque on Sept. 11 before a packed house. Hundreds of residents who could not fit into the meeting chambers stood outside and cheered wildly as the vote was announced showing the mosque had been defeated. The mosque was proposed to be built in the middle of a neighborhood heavily populated by Iraqi Chaldean Christians.
Watch video of residents cheering the news that a mosque had been rejected by Sterling Heights planning board.
Chaldean Christians are all too familiar with persecution at the hands of Shariah-compliant Muslim communities back home in Iraq.
But the battle is not over in Sterling Heights. The city council still has the option of approving the mosque and the Obama administration will be watching closing, ready to file a federal discrimination lawsuit if it should follow the lead of the city planning board.
GOP Governor stands with Muslim community
Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has made it clear on which side he stands.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder
He's with the Muslims, says Dick Manasseri, a resident of Rochester Hills and one of Michigan's up and coming voices against the Islamization of the Great Lakes State.
He has started a group called Refugee Resettlement Monitor-Michigan that has several members out on the speaking circuit, educating Michigan Republicans with facts and the personal stories of Chaldean American Christians who have lived under Shariah in the Middle East.
"We've made 12 presentations since August, designed for Republican groups and they're not just tea-party groups who are interested," Manasseri said. "We've got a big problem in Michigan. The governor is the problem. We don't go out of our way to trash the governor but he is doubling down on this."
Synder has said he'd like to "rebuild" parts of Detroit by importing 5,000 Syrian refugees and has requested that the Obama administration assign those refugees to his state. Detroit Mayor Mike Dugan is on board with the plan.
On Friday, Nov. 6, just a few days after Hamtramck's historic election, Snyder was on hand to celebrate the city's Bangladeshi corridor. Bangladeshis, along with immigrants from Yemen, make up the majority of Hamtramck's Muslim community. Others come from Bosnia and Iraq.
The corridor is being branded Banglatown, and Snyder sees it as a potential tourist destination.
"The branding of Banglatown as a cultural tourism destination is a priority for Global Detroit, (the Bangladeshi American Public Affairs Committee) and the Economic Development Committee of the Detroit City Council Immigration Task Force," says a statement issued by Global Detroit.
Global Detroit is an organization that says its goal is to improve economies by "welcoming, retaining and empowering" immigrant communities. It is an affiliate of Welcoming America, a nationwide immigrant rights group started by a close Obama associate, David Lubell, with seed money from billionaire philanthropist and open-borders champion George Soros.
"Hamtramck contains one of the nation's densest Bangladeshi populations and offers the only U.S. voting ballot in Bengali, the so-called 'Bangla ballot,'" boasts the Global Detroit statement.
Governor 'really twisted' on this subject
"The governor was part of a celebration of that event, so it was duly recognized by the governor who is really twisted on this subject," Manasseri said. "He somehow doesn’t make a distinction between economic development and the influx of people who practice Shariah. It seems he's very much in favor of Shariahville, as I call it, and wants to see it spread all over Michigan. And so we're working against that at the grassroots level for the whole state."
Gov. Snyder also addressed the Islamic Society of North America's annual convention in August 2014, despite the fact that ISNA is a known front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, which was designated an extremist organization in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial. Snyder, ironically, did take the opportunity of his ISNA speech to mention Israel's right to exist, a comment that infuriated ISNA leaders, causing them to put out an "action alert" for all Muslims to call the Governor's office and complain.
A 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo explicitly identifies ISNA among its fronts along with the Council for American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. The memo states the Brotherhood's "work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within."
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a candidate for the GOP nomination for president, has introduced legislation to get the Muslim Brotherhood designated as a terrorist organization. It has already been branded a terrorist organization in Egypt, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, among other countries.
Manasseri's group has created a website and is collecting signatures for passage of a resolution that would halt refugee resettlement in Michigan. He said requests for presentations before clubs and groups is growing in light of the migrant crisis in Europe, where the number of rapes and assaults have exploded around the refugee camps and teachers in Germany are warning girls to dress modestly and not to engage young Muslim men in conversation. Those Americans who are paying attention to what's happening on the ground in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, France and the U.K. are beginning to "wake up," he said.
"At the grassroots level, it's still a small minority but our presentation is resonating. I think we have a long way to go," he said.
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