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Hamtramck, Michigan was once the home of Polish Catholics and an auto manufacturing plant that employed 45,000 workers. Today it is a much smaller community, more than half of which is Muslim, and it is the only American town with a Muslim-majority city council. Lucky Severson reports from Hamtramck on how dramatically it has changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAmerica is the greatest country in the world because of its great Constitution,\u201d says Hamtramck city councilman Saad Almasmari. \u201cI\u2019m an American. My rule is going to be the US Constitution and the state and the city law.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":28983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-belief-and-practice","topics-culture-and-society","topics-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nFebruary 5, 2016 ~ Muslims of Hamtramck, Michigan | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Once staunchly Polish Catholic, this community outside Detroit is now the only US city with a Muslim-majority city council.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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