The city council of Hamtramck, Mich., may have found the best way to recognize “Pride”: by banning the rainbow flag from city property. The population of Hamtramck, once mostly of Polish ancestry, is now heavily Muslim. The change has been reflected in the composition of its city government; all members of the council are Muslims and all are men.

The move highlights growing cracks among the Democratic base. Democrats cheered in 2015 when Hamtramck elected the nation’s first majority-Muslim city council, but liberals are peeved about this infighting within their coalition. Former mayor Karen Majewski, who cast a tie-breaking vote to allow the flag to be flown in 2021, told the Muslim community “we supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.” Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), herself Muslim, said that the resolution told LGBT individuals that “their existence doesn’t matter.”

It is laughable to suggest that because someone is not given special recognition by the government, their representatives are acting as if they don’t matter. But these criticisms also reveal that progressive misunderstandings of how religious people approach politics apply to Islam as well as Christianity. Many liberal leaders have failed to realize that Islam is not a worldview that interlaces perfectly with progressive priorities. Sincere believers in all faiths hold positions that do not change according to the standards of the day. It is simply not possible to reconcile traditionalist understandings of Islam with progressive ideas of marriage and sexual identity, and while some members of the city council framed the resolution as a question of impartiality, much of the public support for the idea was based in active opposition to the LGBT agenda.

Muslims have predominantly voted for Democrats in recent years not because they fully bought into the party platform but because liberals successfully weaponized Republican support for immigration restrictions against them through the label of “Islamophobia.” The War on Terror also likely contributed to this realignment, as most Muslims voted Republican in the 2000 election.

But Trump won more support from Muslims in 2020 than in 2016 and did slightly better in Hamtramck itself. With the Democratic Party consistently doubling down on its efforts to promote progressive social policy, it is not implausible to think that Muslims will continue trending right.