CNN’s Costello to Hamtramck Mayor: Your City’s Majority-Muslim, ‘Are You Afraid?’
COSTELLO: “So, mayor, I will start with you. You govern a majority Muslim American city. Are you afraid?”
MAJEWSKI: “No, I’m not afraid. And actually I’d like to make another correction. We have, as of our last election, which was a couple of weeks ago, we elected a Muslim majority council. Whether the demographics of the city would say that we’re a Muslim majority city, I think we’re — I don’t think that we’re there yet. I think we’re probably somewhere in the 40 percent Muslim for the city overall. But our city council that will take office in January will be a majority Muslim council.”
COSTELLO: “So does that concern some of your citizens?”
MAJEWSKI: “You know, the issues for — we’re a small city. We’re 23,000, 24,000 people. We’re 2.2 square miles. The issues for most of our residents are, can we — can we fix the streets? You know, will the street lights — the street light that’s out in front of my house, can we get that fixed? They’re local issues. And the — the — there’s not a kind of level of fear that we hear when we talk about this on a national level. Really, our city council and our residents are most concerned with the day to day issues that affect their life when they walk out their front door.”
COSTELLO: “OK, so that is small town America. And stick around, Ms. Mayor. I’m going to turn my attention to Buck now because last year the NYPD —“