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In November 2015, Hamtramck became the first American city to elect a Muslim-majority city council. [9] [10] In 2022, it became the first American city to have an all-Muslim government. [100] It also now has an all male elected government which has been said to "not reflect the city's makeup."
Dearborn has the proportionally largest Muslim population in the United States and the largest mosque in North America. [7] [8] In 2023, Dearborn became the first Arab majority city in the US, with 55% of its residents claiming to be of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry in a 2023 census. [9] [10]
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 ...
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.
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,...
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 ...
Images of flags of places in the United States (21 F) A. Flags of cities in Alabama (2 P, 106 F) ... Pages in category "Flags of cities in the United States"
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.