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Hamtramck, Michigan the only Muslim-majority city in the United States and the first city to have a Muslim-majority city council in the history of the United States, with four of the six council members being Muslim. In June 2023, the city drew scrutiny for its ban of the rainbow flag on city property and perceived homophobia. [2]
Hamtramck Fire Department. Hamtramck (/ h æ m ˈ t r æ m ɪ k / ham-TRAM-ik) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.An enclave of Detroit, Hamtramck is located roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) north of downtown Detroit, and is surrounded by Detroit on most sides.
In September, Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck — another Muslim-majority Michigan city — endorsed Trump, sounding even more alarm bells for Democrats’ dire straits with the defecting ...
The city's population includes 40,000 Arab Americans. Per the 2000 census, Arab Americans totaled 29,181 or 29.85% of Dearborn's population; many are descendants of families who have been in the city since the early 20th century. The city has the largest proportion of Arab Americans in the United States. [31]
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 ...
This is a list of the largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states, based on the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report (2010 population estimates from the report's 2007 revision).
The overwhelming majority, roughly 120,000, came after the commencement of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. [24] Furthering the emigration from Lebanon was Israel's 1982 invasion. [22] Egyptians and Iraqis also immigrated to the United States in large numbers during this period. From 1967 to 2003 more than 120,000 Egyptians have immigrated to ...