Legislative
Michigan city elects nation’s first all-Muslim city council
A city in Michigan is reportedly the first in the nation to elect an all-Muslim city council.
Adam Albarmaki, Amanda Jaczkowski and Khalil Refai won Hamtramck’s City Council election on Nov. 2. They will join current council members Nayeem Choudhury, Mohammed Hassan and Mohammed Alsomiri. All six individuals identify as Muslims. Amer Ghalib, who was elected mayor, is also Muslim.
The Muslim Public Affairs Counsel, a national American Muslim advocacy and public policy organization, said it is the first and only city that they are aware of that has a full Muslim city counsel and mayor.
The newly elected council members will begin their term in January, and the members say religion will not be a factor in how they govern, reported The Detroit Free Press.
“It’s important to remember that although we all happen to be practicing Muslims, we are elected through the processes set forth by the United States, Michigan, Wayne County and Hamtramck,” Jaczkowski said to the Free Press. “We will all take an oath … to protect the Constitution of the United States, and that includes the concept of separation of church and state.”
Albarmaki told the Free Press, “I owe it to the people of Hamtramck, and my loyalty to them will remain intact,” he said. “Make no mistake, I do not represent the interest of a certain group over another. I will work diligently to ensure that the best interest of Hamtramckans is attained.”
Five of the council members are immigrants, and one is a convert to Islam, reported the Free Press. “This City Council truly represents all the elements of Hamtramck history, whether they are Arabs, South Asian or European descendants,” Mohie El-Deen policy program manager at the Muslim Public Affairs Council said.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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The first thing people need to learn is that Islam is NOT a religion. It is a theocracy – a government with a religious component. Basically, what has occurred is a the city has elected citizens of a hostile government to run the city. People need to learn Islam’s actual history and what its citizens are allowed to do. Get a Qur’an and read it.