the bizarre truth about detroit is that all of the bars and the party district in general is relocating to the only muslim-majority municipality in north america. it is a separate city that is literally surrounded by the city of detroit.

i wonder why that is. are there different bylaws? if so, they may be setting themselves up for a collapse. it is the only muslim majority municipality in north america.

in fact, there was a recent legal case in hammtramck (a previously polish-majority working class area that got nailed by the auto recession) that ended with the courts upholding the ban on a public call to prayer in the region. that's that thing muslims do to intimidate people into praying, and is intimidation, purposefully, it's the point. they yell into microphones, or play loud music, or whatever. it's open, public coercion. the ban came down, and as far as i know they were forced to stop, but the point i'm making is that there are enough muslims in this strip for that to have actually happened, before it was stopped. now, it's quickly becoming detroit's sin strip...

and, like i say - the council is separate from detroit. that may be great for now. but, if the city's entire bar district ends up on this strip, and a muslim city council shuts it down, the city is going to find itself dry.

it's not like i don't understand this. the same economic pressures that brought me to windsor brought a lot of muslims here; the rent is cheap. i get it.

but, it's a strange juxtaposition.