HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) – A diverse Detroit enclave known for its Polish heritage will have what’s believed to be the nation’s first Muslim-majority City Council.
Hamtramck residents on Tuesday elected Yemeni-American Saad Almasmari and re-elected Bangladesh natives Abu Musa and Anam Miah. They join Bangladeshi member Mohammed Hassan.
Muslims now hold four of the council’s six seats in a city that was settled by Germans, became predominantly Polish in the early 1900s and now has a slight majority of Muslims from Yemen, Bangladesh and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Almasmari told television stations WDIV and WXYZ that they will “represent everybody.”
The city council in nearby Dearborn has an Arab-American majority but not all are Muslim.
