In Hamtramck, Michigan, the first Muslim-majority city in America, an all-Muslim city council legalized backyard animal sacrifice over the non-Muslim minority, who objected on animal rights and sanitary issues.
The religious slaughtering of goats and sheep is practiced among Muslims during the holiday of Eid.
Minneapolis became the first large American city to change its noise ordinance to permit all five daily Islamic calls to prayer to be broadcast on loudspeakers year-round, starting at 3:30 a.m. Activists credited the City Council’s decision as a triumph of inclusion, while other residents raised concerns about how loud early-morning and late-night broadcasts may disrupt their sleep…