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‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags

www.theguardian.com

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2y ago

‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned

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Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015
Did they? I remember that happening, I don't remember the celebrating.
- The celebration was assumed. See, Republicans always make a habit of hating anything that Democrats like, so the feeble minded journo with a looming deadline and no solid leads will assume the reverse is also true. Thus, because Republicans hate Muslims and want to eject them from any form of government, they'd assume Democrats must always celebrate whenever Muslims get majority control of some government body.
  I'm being less sarcastic than I would like to, here.
  
  I'll try to be generous and say that maybe some misguided people on the left were celebrating this, believing it was a win for diversity, but it sure wasn't widespread.
Republican propaganda, liberals don't feel betrayed. Liberals want separation on church and state that includes all churches not just Christianity.
It's almost as if the answer is to stop voting anyone with a clearly abrahamic based religious agenda into power.
- "It's almost as if the answer is to stop voting anyone with a ~~clearly abrahamic based~~ religious agenda into power."
- anyone with a clearly ~~abrahamic based~~ religious agenda
  
  Exactly. There are plenty of cults pretending to be science instead of the religion they actually behave like
  Don’t elect cultist nut jobs
- Not limited to merely Abrahamic religions either
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
Islam is so clear in its hate for queer relationships you’d have to be a fucking idiot to think an honest Muslim is fine with someone being gay.
Why would they feel betrayed by conservatives doing conservative things? Then again, democrats love "reaching across the aisle" to fascists.
- The establishment Democratic party is neoliberal which is not a far reach from the conservative Republican party (as opposed to the reactionary Republican party).
  That's to say they Democrats are to the right of th American public, and most of the developed world. They depend on the GOP being consistently worse than they are.
  And neither atheists nor progressives have a voice in the US.
This article is from June. How is this news?
- I just want one news network to run "news at 5pm" and then "olds at 11pm" lol
Ok that is absolutly hilarious.
First amendment bitches. WAVE THAT FLAG. WAVE IT WIDE AND HIGH!
- Most Zionists are worse than this
- You don't have any room to talk either.
Hey everyone, go drink a cool glass of water and think about the last time you laughed so hard you were afraid you'd either puke or pass out. Have fun!

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