Ultimately there's cultural aspects that can blend and coexist, and others that can't.
That old saying about "melting pot vs. tossed salad"
One is for making fondue, the other is chopped leaves. I don't know what saying you could have in mind.
Things like food, music, arts for example can co-exist and blend together. Other things can not.
Aber nur auf Englisch?
And when you refer to a legislative majority, you mean like that was formed in Hamtramck Michigan (the very first city in the country to ever have a Muslim majority)?
We have now gotten to the recycled part of your post. Unlike with trash, recycling is not a virtue in posts.
Where they built up enough of an enclave to where 5 of the 7 city council members were foreign born from Yemen and Bangladesh,
Muslim majority? Yemeni and Bangladeshi? Foreign born? You're wandering around a bit here. (And no Somalis on this list? I thought this was about a Somali take over. [or was it about Trump's bigotry about Somalis and their culture?])
and then immediately amended the city code for the following policy changes:
- Amending the city noise ordinance so that the Muslim call to prayer could be broadcast through loudspeakers throughout that city at 6am and 10pm.
So?
And "throughout the city" or just from loud speakers at the mosques? (I used to wake up on Saturday mornings to loudspeakers emanating sounds from the nearby Ford dealership. It failed in the great recession. It's very annoying to a country boy like me, but something one must get used to in the city.)
(Also, if you had just read the Wikipedia article, you'd know that the call to prayer was authorized by the city council TWENTY years ago.)
- Amending the city animal welfare and sanitation codes so that ritual animal slaughter could be performed in peoples' back yards
So? This is a zoning issue.
Thus far we just seem to have things that might have only been banned *because* a ban targeted Muslims back when Muslims were common, but couldn't elect the city council. I'd need to know more about the prior history of Hammtrack. (I think I even drove through it at night many years ago.)
- Carving out funding for Halal meal compliance at public schools
Could be worse -- could have put in funding so students would have vegan options. (vegans --- shiver...)
- Institute a city ban on Pride flags
There are whole states trying to ban such flags from public buildings. Have Utah, Idaho, or Montana been taken over by Muslims too? Or was it some other non-Western religion up to no good?
- Changing the city decency code to prohibit what they deem as 'lewd swimwear' at the city pool
That's never happened anywhere else.
(all over the objections of the existing residents who already lived there...I referenced that case in post #71)
Existing residents? Already lived there?
Some choice bits from the Wikipedia article on the city:
"As of 2006, most of the Middle Eastern population in Hamtramck is Yemeni." (Seems like they've been there a while. Longer than most of my neighbors have lived on this street.
"In the 1930s, the first group of
Bengalis came to Detroit and Hamtramck." "The first significant population of Bengalis began arriving in the late 1980s ..."
"By 2001 many Bangladeshis, Bosnians, and Iraqi
Assyrians were moving to Hamtramck."
"As of 2003, over 30 languages are spoken in Hamtramck and more than four religions are present. The four principal religions are Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism."
Sounds pretty ethnically and religiously diverse.
I guess a hundred years ago you'd be complaining about the Poles taking over the local government:
"Hamtramck flourished from 1910 to 1920 as thousands of European immigrants, particularly Poles, were attracted by the growing automobile industry. "
There are certain cultures that have the melting pot mindset, and other that have the mentality of biding their time until they have the numbers, and then immediately replace what was there with something specifically catering to their religious ideological viewpoint.
Comply with "legacy American culture" or get out? No thanks.
