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Sep 5, 2026 – Prayer Focus

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Sep 5, 2026 – Prayer Focus

Turning US Cities Into ‘Beachheads’ for Islam

Part 4

Hamtramck, Michigan

Situated in the middle of the Detroit metro area, Hamtramck is another microcosm of Muslims coming to power and gradually imposing their strict religious code on the greater community. Muslim immigrants, mostly from Yemen and Bangladesh, have flocked to the two-square-mile city and carved out an increasingly Sharia-compliant enclave. Their numbers have made it a Muslim-majority city, and that’s translated into unprecedented political power. With almost 30,000 residents, Hamtramck is the first city in the U.S. to have an all-Muslim elected city council. Also sharing the Islamic faith are its mayor, city manager, attorney, comptroller, clerk, and police chief. Like Paterson, one of the first acts by its Islamic leaders was to rename the city’s main street “Palestine Avenue.” Pray.

Like the Chinatowns and Little Italies that dot American cities, Hamtramck now reflects the sensibilities of its new majority. Storefronts display signs in Arabic, from hookah bars to halal butchers. Female shoppers dress head-to-toe in black niqabs covering everything but their eyes, and bearded men wear ankle-length white robes typically seen on the Arabian Peninsula. Arabic is spoken in public spaces. Many local businesses fly Yemeni and other Middle Eastern flags outside their shops and paint murals of the “struggles” in the Palestinian territories. Even the official sign outside the meeting hall of the city council is in Arabic. And mosques are omnipresent. With more than a dozen so-called “masjids” and Islamic centers, 125-year-old Hamtramck now has more mosques per capita than anywhere else in the United States. Several were converted from church buildings.

Muslim leaders have gone further, changing laws to accommodate their religion. Once they gained majority power, Muslims on the city council overturned rules restricting outdoor noise to let mosques broadcast the Arabic call to prayer from minarets. Five times every day, the sounds of the “adhan” can be heard echoing from loudspeakers throughout the city. In a kind of reverse assimilation, non-Muslim residents in recent years stopped complaining about the incessant calls to prayer, according to the city’s largest mosque, Al-Islah Islamic Center, even though they trigger additional noise: the baying and barking of dogs owned by non-Muslims. What once was viewed as a nuisance has been normalized. Pray.

In addition, Muslim officials banned traditional bars near mosques, even though Hamtramck was once known for its pubs and music. Islam forbids alcohol, so only hookah bars are allowed around places of worship. (Hookah lounges are where Muslim men gather to smoke flavored tobacco from water-filled pipes that look like large, ornate bongs.) Ads and signs for alcohol have dwindled along with the number of taverns.

At Hamtramck schools, Easter break has been replaced with vacation at the end of Ramadan. Lunch menus are 100% halal: “The animals have been blessed by a Muslim” before being slaughtered for school meat, according to a school document certifying the practice. In 2023, the city council voted to permit the slaughtering of goats and sheep on residential property as long as it conforms to the Islamic ritual of slitting the live animal’s throat with a knife and draining the blood before further cutting and processing. Pray.

Five of its six Muslim council members have been charged with, or are currently under investigation for, election fraud. These include allegations that they conspired to forge the signatures of recently naturalized Muslim immigrants on absentee ballots or buy their votes, according to a state law enforcement document. Last month, a jury convicted councilman Mohammed Hassan, who also serves as Hamtramck’s mayor pro tem, on charges that he provided a false statement for an application for an absentee ballot in the 2023 election. Earlier this month, Hassan was sentenced to one year of probation and community service by a county judge who expressed astonishment at the extent of corruption in the city. Despite the conviction, Hassan remains on the city council. Another councilman was charged with several election fraud felonies, but charges were dropped after two witnesses failed to appear to testify against him. Other council members reportedly remain under investigation by a special prosecutor named by the state attorney general, who has been working with the FBI.

The voting fraud scandal bubbled to the surface last year when former city manager Max Barbarino blew the whistle on mail-in ballot malfeasance he witnessed, as well as alleged criminal misconduct involving the city’s Muslim police chief, who was recently forced to resign. After Barbarino initiated a preliminary investigation into the misconduct, the Muslim mayor and council fired Barbarino and replaced him with a fellow Muslim. In turn, Barbarino, who is white and non-Muslim, sued the council, claiming racial discrimination. He complains that the “racially biased” Muslim council also pressured him to fire blacks and gays in city hall. “These past few years have been horrible,” said Barbarino, a former police chief. “Dealing with this corrupt council, always doing what I could to hold the line and protect the city. Frankly, they have put my staff and me through hell.” Pray.

In his whistleblower lawsuit, Barbarino said at least one councilman was caught on video stuffing “large batches of absentee ballots” in drop boxes as part of a “ballot-harvesting” scheme in 2023. He also alleges that former Hamtramck Police Chief Jamiel Altaheri leaked sensitive information from the election fraud investigation to council members who were targets of the investigation. He claimed the chief routinely provided “updates” on evidence gathered on the suspects. In addition, the suit describes adisturbing pattern of domestic violence from Altaheri.” On two occasions in 2024, Altaheri was said to “hit and punch” the mother of his child. He allegedly ordered responding officers not to write up incident reports, arguing, “You guys here in Michigan don’t handle things the correct way; you guys make everything formal,” suggesting such cases should be handled through mosques following the tenets of Sharia law, which does not proscribe wife-beating as a crime. Altaheri, who did not respond to requests for comment, is also accused in the suit of punching a man “in the head at a hookah lounge in Dearborn [Mich.].” Altaheri, who is of Yemeni descent, previously served as a New York police officer where he co-founded the NYPD Muslim Officers Society and the Yemeni American Law Enforcement Officers Association. He also headed the NYPD’s Office of Equity and Inclusion, where he led efforts to hire more Muslims on the force. Barbarino said he got pushback from Yemenis on the council when he suspended Altaheri, pending an investigation by the FBI into his conduct. At a May 2025 council meeting, the then-city manager had refused demands to keep the top cop on the job. Pray.

We pray:

Against the invasion by Islamic fundamentalists and the infiltration of Sharia Law into the communities of the United States of America. Let it be reversed wherever it is taken root… and completely expunged… immediately. Pray. 

That Americans will reject every aspect of the Islamic culture that seeks to subvert and replace our historical and cultural heritage, refusing to allow the invaders to install their history in its place. Pray.

That the people of our nation will stand alongside President Trump and remain engaged in this BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA until VICTORY is won! Pray.

Protect, strengthen, and cover our 24/7 family in the Blood of Jesus. Bring in mature Christian men and women, and call the younger generation to this assignment with us, as we pray for our President and our beloved nation! Prepare us for our NEXT STEPS in this Battle to Save America! Pray.

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