No, Mr. Ghalib. Islam is the only mainstream religion that does not promote “respecting others and treating them well,” at least when it comes to women and non-Muslims. Islam sanctions violence against disbelievers, hatred against Jews (and thus the state of Israel), and the inferiority of women. While adherents of other faiths outside of Islam may also commit violence, hate those who are different in creed or race, and mistreat women, it isn’t sanctioned in their religions.
One need only look at Sharia states which have no freedom of religion, equality for women and they arbitrarily detain human rights advocates/dissidents. The persecution of Christians and other minorities over 1400 years is not a figment of anyone’s imagination; nor is it an anomaly in Islam.
Preempting any Islamophobic backlash or fear, Ghalib assured citizens that they should not expect any changes from an all-Muslim city government, just efforts to revitalize city infrastructure and a commitment to serve its people. “There is no difference, because we are all bound by the city regulations and the country’s constitution, with laws and regulations that we cannot violate,” he said.
There is a big difference. A few examples of Islamic influence in America: pushing the “Islamophobia” subterfuge to curb free speech (the cornerstone of free society) when that speech offends Muslims; fueling the pro-Palestinian lobby, which perpetuates antisemitism and pro-Palestinian special interests in Congress, who managed briefly to strike Iron Dome funding from a US budget bill.
“Michigan city council becomes first all-Muslim led government in US,” Arab News, January 17, 2022:
HAMTRAMCK, Michigan: Hamtramck, Michigan is the first city in the US to be led by an all-Muslim government.
A city of mostly Polish-Americans for 99 years, locals say the population has gradually shifted to now be over half Arab-Americans. And in its 100th year, the city’s leaders reflect that change.
“It was a historic achievement that’s never happened before for the Arabs and immigrants,” Amer Ghalib, Hamtramck mayor, told Arab News.
“And I think it inspired many of the youth to go for this field and made them confident in themselves and of their abilities and that they have become an inseparable part of the fabric of this society,” he added.
The Yemeni-born mayor leads Hamtramck alongside the elected city council which, with the exception of one American-born convert to Islam, is made up entirely of Arab immigrants.
Having moved when he was 17, Ghalib considers the two square miles that make up Hamtramck to be his mother city.
“I feel proud and I feel a big responsibility and this is why we have to work very hard to prove that we, as immigrants, can work and succeed in managerial, public service, and political fields in this country,” he said.
Preempting any Islamaphobic backlash or fear, Ghalib assured citizens that they should not expect any changes from an all-Muslim city government, just efforts to revitalize city infrastructure and a commitment to serve its people.
“There is no difference, because we are all bound by the city regulations and the country’s constitution, with laws and regulations that we cannot violate,” he said….
Don McKellar says
Well there you go. Enough muslims were imported by Obama to take over a city in Michigan. They now have a lock on the complete government there. But don’t worry, they are bound by the city’s regulations and the Constitution — which is inferior to the commands of Allah, which is sharia law. So as long as those don’t conflict with sharia law, there will be no issue. If there is conflict, they will change the city’s regulations and bylaws so that everything is okay and they are not violated. So don’t worry, the city’s regulations and laws will never be violated. And as for the Constitution — well, that’s open to interpretation. In their and Obama’s interpretation, it isn’t in conflict with sharia.
You’ve always got to read between the lines whenever a muslim with power is speaking.
mortimer says
Yes, Don … read between the hot, steaming piles of farm-fresh TAQIYYA.
Graham Bryant says
All their effort to promote their god allah ALONG WITH ILLHAN OMAR against our beloved creator the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. How blind the American people are as God said “There is none so blind as my people lsrael”(that is white – America the UK Australia and New Zealand-THEY ARE THE TRUE iSRAELITES – National ISRAEL
Check Burry says
Bad to read this
PRCS says
“Preempting any Islamophobic backlash or fear, Ghalib assured citizens that they should not expect any changes from an all-Muslim city government, just efforts to revitalize city infrastructure and a commitment to serve its people. “There is no difference, because we are all bound by the city regulations and the country’s constitution, with laws and regulations that we cannot violate,” he said.
Read: “laws and regulations that we MUSLIMS cannot YET violate”
mortimer says
Reply to PRCS: Jihad is Mohammed’s method of changing kafir societies into Islamic ones. So, eventually a Muslim government will start shifting from secular man-made laws to Sharia-based ‘eternal, perfect’ laws from Allah.
Jihad takes many forms such as the JIHAD OF THE PEN which involves legislation such as that of town council. Mohammed took over the Jewish town of Yathrib, he renamed it Me-dina (place of governance) and within a few years, there were no Jews in Yathrib. It became 100% Islamic.
Muslim politicians must imitate Mohammed in governance or they are ‘hypocrites’ according to Sharia law.
PRCS says
Qur’an 9:29
Sahih International
“Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.”
Michael Copeland says
Note that Allah, in deciding what is, or is not, unlawful, has a joint decision-maker, that is to say, a partner. Allah has committed shirk.
Graham Bryant says
and allahS messenger MUHAMMUD who kills the innocent and rapes the infidel childrenAS YOUNG AS 7 and women sanctioned by the quran-HOW EVIL AND WICKED THAT IS!!
PRCS says
No amount of logic can dislodge “the disease” from most Mulims’ minds.
PRCS says
No amount of logic can dislodge “the disease” from most Muslims’ minds.
mortimer says
Mayor Amer Ghalib will have a difficult time finding a Muslim-majority country where women and kafirs are ‘treated well’ or ‘respected’. The Koran and hadiths and the canonical writings upon which Sharia law is based all require Muslims to DISRESPECT KAFIRS, especially Jews. Perhaps Amer Ghalib has forgotten Islam’s CANONICAL TEACHING OF HATE called AL WALAA WAL BARAA.
‘Baraa’ is HATRED directed by Muslims towards Kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’. ‘Baraa’ means – To Hate
– To keep distance from
– To be enemy to
– To desert
– To decline to help
– To disrespect
– To put down
– Not to ally with
– Not to support
AL WALAA WAL BARAA (Islamic apartheid) is made a PRIORITY by Islam’s leading teachers. Muslims are required to avoid and shun kafirs as well as show ‘hostility’ towards them.
Quotes from leading Islamic teachers:
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
– “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (wrong belief) itself.” – from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– K. 28:86 says: “Lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.”
-Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab said: (The profession of …) “Islam of a man can never be accepted, even if he abandons polytheism, unless he shows enmity towards the disbelievers and polytheists, as Allah says in Surat al-Muja’dila 58:02”
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Mayor Amer Ghalib is clearly wrong or perhaps he knows the above teaching of AL WALAA WAL BARAA and is lying about it using TAQIYYA. This should not surprise us.
Quote: “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – former sheikh Sam Solomon
Don McKellar says
Don’t worry, they will be treated well and respected — as defined by Islam for kafirs / kuffars. No sharia law will be broken in their treatment.
Michael Copeland says
Repect?
“The only law we must respect and apply is the Shari’a.”
– Tariq Ramadan
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/04/tariq-ramadan-respect/
Graham Bryant says
HE HAS NO LOVE OR RESPECT FOR OUR BELOVED CREATOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY of the BIBLE(the WORD of God-mouth – not the quran which is from the evil heart of arab muslim men!!) ISLAM muslims are the ENEMIES OF OUR GREAT CREATOR-and they do not know – yet!!
PRCS says
Graham,
Not everyone here is a Christian.
gravenimage says
True, PRCS. There are Anti-Jihadists here who are Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Yezidi, Neo-Pagan, Agnostic, and Atheist–and likely others.
Jim says
Well, doing good and abandoning evil sounds ok, but how do they define such words? Good is sharia, bad is non-sharia. Not good is whatever conflicts with sharia. Including the US Constitution, much of Jesus’s teachings, much of the core beliefs of all religions other than Islam, including Judaism. Their idea of evil is not the same as the traditional ethics of the West that have developed over centuries. And who will decide what is good and avoids evil? Presumably Muslim clerics. Is there any sign that they actually take the Constitution seriously when they can get around it?
Wellington says
Noble Islam?
When you start off with an oxymoron, and a very evil and deceptive oxymoron at that, nothing good can or will follow.
somehistory says
I believe the first time I heard the word “noble” with anything islam, was when the war in afghanistan was ongoing, but they had installed a *new* government and everyone was running around with inked fingers. Their behavior cannot really be called anything but evil when they freely practice what their filthy book demands.
gravenimage says
Mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan: ‘Noble Islam promotes doing good and abandoning evil’
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This is “enjoining the good and forbidding the evil”–a major tenet of Islam found in the Qur’an and Hadith.
https://legacy.quran.com/9/112%20-%20115
The next verses condemn unbelievers as the “enemies of Allah”.
And no mention of what is considered good and evil in Islam. In fact, the above is used to indicate the enforcement of brutal Shari’ah law, by violence if necessary.
Infidel says
Since there are no infidels on that city council, I guess that they at least have gotten all ‘good’ and ridden themselves of all ‘evil’
So Hamtramck I guess is now Aden on the Lake St Clair? Maybe the city council can be surveyed for its breakdown of sunnis, Houthis, Twelvers, Druze, Alawites, Ahmadiyas, et al? Incidentally, if there were any Ahmadiyas on that council, would they be recognized as muslim, as they ain’t in Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh or any muslim country?
gravenimage says
Yes–the city is still only half Muslim, but Infidels have no role in city government there. Chilling.
Graham Bryant says
When the nuclear bombs drop Russia will target their city just watch and you will all see!!
gravenimage says
What are you on about, Graham? There is no reason whatsoever to suppose that Russia is planning to nuke Hamtramck.
somehistory says
I don’t see the group to which “lady al queda” and the perp who wanted her to be freed belonged. I had never read of it that I can recall, but MEF had it listed in a breakdown of the hostage situation in TX.
Perhaps there are a few of those in the pork town. On, wait, it was a Polish town.
Wellington says
Indeed, gravenimage. Good per Islam is so often evil (e.g., death for apostasy) and evil per Islam is so often good (e.g., criticism of the extremely flawed and disturbing character of the reputed founder of Islam).
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington.
BexarKat says
He might be correct…however it might be good to keep in mind much of Islam is ignoble.
Hank says
“HAMTRAMCK, Michigan: Hamtramck, Michigan is the first city in the US to be led by an all-Muslim government.”
– The fact that this Mayor replaces the whole city government by Muslims in a non-Muslim host nation displays what the hypocrisy and agenda of Islam is. Try using that criteria and replace the entire city government in Riyadh or Kabul or Istanbul or Karachi, et al, with Christians or Polish Catholic’s or other infidel.
“A city of mostly Polish-Americans for 99 years, locals say the population has gradually shifted to now be over half Arab-Americans. And in its 100th year, the city’s leaders reflect that change.”
– Same result of importing Muslims into non-Muslim host nations. Strange things happen when approaching 50%. The Bible grounded Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.
“Mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan: ‘Noble Islam promotes doing good and abandoning evil’
– This is Taqiya in its purest form or this guy hasn’t read the Quran and its hate verses. If not Taqiya, he should receive 500 lashes as punishment for not reading his Quran.
What is going on in Michigan? Did you give up the ghost?