I can’t say I blame them for feeling betrayed but Islam like the majority of the Christianity leans to the conservative side socially when it comes to sexuality and gender identity. They shouldn’t be surprised when an all Muslim majority city council starts to act on their belief system and enact ordinances that run against the more socially liberal citizens.
It shouldn’t matter here if they are Muslim or Christian. Maybe there’s a small amount of “Hey, you were a minority group too and should treat other minority groups a little better” but at the end of the day if social conservatives are democratically elected into power it’s going to follow that they will do social conservative things.
As a side note, and this is NOT a “this town should have done” thing, but it doesn’t take much qualification to run for city council in most cases. For example, here are the requirements to run for council in the city of Toronto, Canada:
To run for mayor or city councillor, on the day the nomination paper is filed, a person must be:
If you’re worried about your town encourage people who’d be a good fit to run. Or maybe run yourself.
And as I said this isn’t in judgement of the town in the article, but a message for anyone reading the article who may start to feel like there’s nothing they can do when they live in a more conservative town. It may not work. But it just may.