'I stand by anything I say': City council candidate defends comments supporting child marriage, Holocaust

03 November 2023

Nasr Hussain, who is one of six candidates running for three seats on the Hamtramck, Michigan city council, is doubling down on extreme comments he made online about child marriage, the Holocaust, and homosexuality.

According to the Detroit Metro Times, Hussain recently referred to the genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust as "God's advance punishment" for the "savagery they're committing" against Palestinians in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Hussain then went on to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.

"A heinous act proving they're as savage and cruel as the Nazis themselves who tormented them, or maybe even worse," Hussain wrote.

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In a separate post to his Facebook page responding to an article about an adult man marrying a girl who has reached puberty, Hussain wrote in support of the act.

"She was betrothed at six, marriage consummated at nine after reaching puberty and giving her consent," Hussain wrote. “Women reach puberty between 8 and 12. If she was ok with it and her parents were ok with it why does it bother you."

And in another post about homosexuality, Hussain suggested LGBTQ+ Americans were "infected" and that the existence of homosexual Americans posed a danger to the country.

"If the majority of society becomes infected with homosexual then this society is gone," Hussain wrote.

Hussain refused to walk back any of his comments when the Metro Times contacted him. The publication said he refused a phone interview and replied to their interview request in writing.

Hussain called the Holocaust comments "a hypothetical and thought-generating question to make the Zionists think about what they’re doing to the innocent Palestinians hopefully making them think and ponder about the level of depravity they have reached."

The candidate also refused to apologize for his comments denigrating the LGBTQ+ community.

"Homosexuality leads to the destruction of societies therefore it should not be encouraged and should be prevented from spreading," he wrote.

And when asked about his post defending child marriage, Hussain stood by his comment, saying child marriage could lower abortion rates.

"If someone, whether a boy or a girl, under 18 is mature psychologically and physically, sexually active and expresses a desire to marry then they should be allowed to with the permission of their parents and court approval," Hussain told the Metro Times. "Thousands of teenagers under the age of 16 get pregnant all over the country becoming single mothers raising their children alone or resorting to the horrendous experience of abortion because society removed the option of getting married and raising the child in a loving, caring family."

"I stand by anything I say," Hussain said when asked if he had any regrets about his posts.

Hamtramck holds its next city council election on Tuesday, November 7.

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