Newsmax guest: “Where Islam grows, freedom dies”
Amy Mekelburg: Hamtramck, Michigan, “does not even resemble the United States any longer”
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From the August 11, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): We've been forced to accept a lot of change. Small American cities and towns all across the country have been changed completely over the last two decades. This is a wedding in Hamtramck, Michigan. Notice the knives. Amy Mekelburg is the founder of the RAIR Foundation. She is one of the only journalists in the country who's has been covering this slow erosion of Western culture across America.
Amy, appreciate you being here. I want to focus on the small city of Hamtramck, Michigan. So, it's right outside Detroit. It's a couple miles away from the Ford international headquarters, what used to be. Now it's a Muslim majority city, which is fine, but can you tell me what life is like now in Hamtramck?
AMY MEKELBURG (GUEST): Hi, it's nice to be here with you tonight. Yeah, so Hamtramck is a captured city, like I like to call it. It is an Islamic city that is operating in the United States. The city council, the mayors, all of the elected officials are Islamic. They do things as you would see in an Islamic country.
For example, they will have now halal slaughters that are allowed in their front yards and their backyards. The call to prayer rings out. So you can actually be in America and go to a city in Michigan that does not even resemble the United States any longer.
FINNERTY: OK.
MEKELBURG: As I just — yeah.
FINNERTY: No, would you call this, so again, it's not an anti-Muslim thing, but would you call Hamtramck, which is like five miles away from downtown Detroit, would you call this city a no-go zone for people of other religions? And I ask you that, because you've been.
MEKELBURG: Yeah, so I would absolutely say it's a no-go zone for non-Muslims. And unfortunately, what happens in any place that Islam comes in, the freedom starts to die. So, I always say, where Islam grows, freedom dies. And that's what America is known for, it's freedom, and that's being stripped.
Right here, in our cities across America, there are places that are operating now as complete little mini cities under Islamic control.