To win over Muslim voters in a battleground state, former President Donald Trump hatched an unlikely plan alliance with a Michigan mayor leading an all-Muslim city council in Detroit. Once consumed with hatred for “Islamic radicalism,“Trump called in 2015 for a “total and complete stop” of Muslim immigration to the United States; Now he supports this radicalism.

Who is Mayor Ameer Ghalib? A 44-year-old Yemeni American and self-described conservative Democrat, he works part-time as mayor of Hamtramck, earn $6,500 annually. Following a Couple from Meet with the former president in September, he quoted Trump called him “the greatest mayor in the world.”

Ghalib’s long-deleted Arabic language Social media postsarchived in screenshots and professional translatedpoint to a bigoted and corrupt politician who owes his political fate to that of the city religious hardliners. He transformed Hamtramck into a unique stronghold of radical Islam. Ghalib survived one Train of scandals with bigotry directed against African Americans, Christians, Jews, etc gay. The mayor even accused himself of apparent election fraud.

In 2020, Ghalib released one offensive meme She mocked black justice demonstrators and portrayed African Americans as alcoholics and looters after the George Floyd protests. In the same thread, he “liked.” Comments Black people are called “animalistic and inhuman.”

Ghalib often has accused Arab world leaders secretly said “Jewish” and he endorsed a post refer towards Jews as “monkeys” who levy taxes on “the air we breathe.” Be Role models These include Iraq’s monstrous Saddam Hussein and Turkey’s strongmanRecep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Under Ghalib’s administration, Hamtramck’s all-male, all-Muslim City Council implemented a series of reforms that brought city regulations in line with Islamist values. The Islamic Call to prayer sounds from the loudspeaker as early than 4:10 a.m. Ghalib systematically replaced non-Muslim city employees with Muslim ones. A Regulation allows animal sacrifices in the backyard. Gay pride flags are forbidden on city property.

To celebrate Hamas’ massacre of Israelis on October 7, the city council renamed the main street of the city “Palestine Avenue”. A resolution requires the city to divest from Israeli companies.

Several city officials joined the mayor in his strong statement anti-Semitic opinions on-line. Mohammed Hassan, the city’s provisional mayor, shared one Picture in 2021, a monkey with Jewish curls and a hat with the Star of David with the caption: “Israel – the real terrorist!!!” Nasr Hussain, a member of the Hamtramck Plan Commission, called “God’s Holocaust record” for Jews, who, in his opinion, were “as cruel and cruel as the Nazis themselves.” (Ghalib refused to denounce this statement.)

Then there are Hamtramcks record of election fraud, including allegations the immigrant ballot harvesting. Ghalib announced his blatant violation of voting rights in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary when he endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): “There were twenty people around me who were planning to vote for Biden because they (Barack) Obama loved,” he wrote to Facebook. “I got them to vote for Sanders and made their families’ ballots myself.” (Michigan law makes it one crime to influence a voter filling out a ballot or to assist a knowledgeable voter in marking a ballot.)

Other city leaders are accused of crimes; Police raidsstop and stop Ordersand even Beliefs Several City Council members and candidates have been implicated in connection with the ballot harvesting.

Hamtramck’s conflation of mosque and state, its leaders’ obsession with Israel and the city’s hostility toward gays reflect the Islamist ideology that Trump previously espoused taken into account a immediate threator a “Trojan horse”.

By embracing Hamtramck’s mayor, Trump is inadvertently shining a much-needed spotlight on this obscure corner of the United States, exposing small-town corruption, bigotry and extremism that should concern all Americans.

Benjamin Baird is director of MEF Action, a project of the Middle East Forum.