"George W. Bush should thank Florida Muslims for opening his way to the White House. Responding to a national campaign, they discarded normal Democratic Party allegiance and voted as a bloc for the Republican from Texas, providing him with a statewide net gain in Florida of more than 64,000 Muslim votes."
"The most important factor that led Muslims to vote as a bloc for Bush was the unity and perseverance of the leaders of four principal public policy organizations: the American Muslim Alliance (AMA), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the American Muslim Council (AMC), and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). In participating, two of the leaders?Dr. Agha Saeed, founder and chairman of AMA and the chief engineer of Muslim bloc voting, and Salam Al-Marayati, national director of MPAC?departed from their customary allegiance to the Democratic Party. CAIR was represented by Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad and AMC by Yahya Basha, M.D."
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-09/02/article07.shtml
"She warned that unlike the 2000 elections in which Arabs and Muslim Americans voted overwhelmingly for Bush, things could not stand a repeat in the 2004 presidential elections."
http://www.hvk.org/articles/1000/56.html
Publication: Islamic Views Date: October 20, 2000
Election 2000: October 20 News Briefs
"American Muslim voters are likely to vote for George W. Bush in the polls next month, according to survey released this week by the Council on American Islamic Relations".
While I don't support the Bushwatch site or the politics behind it, they do have the facts as it applies to the issues in the "Bye, Alamoudi" post. This link contains the picture of Bush and Laura posing with the terrorist Arian considered too inflammatory to post on FR. Again, I realize bushwatch is a bushbash site, but when it comes to arab muslim terror associations with Grover and Bush and the 2000 election, they do have facts.
My only point is to show that the terrorist contingent gave their support to Bush in 2000, something they don't plan to do in 2004, not to Bushbash.
http://www.bushwatch.com/samibush2.htm
"ALLEGED TERRORIST MET WITH WHITE HOUSE ADVISER" KARL ROVE, PHOTOGRAPHED WITH BUSH DURING CAMPAIGN "A former university professor indicted this week as a terrorist leader attended a 2001 group meeting in the White House complex with President Bush's senior adviser, Karl Rove, administration officials said yesterday. Sami Al-Arian, a former computer engineering professor at the University of South Florida, had been under investigation by the FBI for at least six years at the time of the June 2001 briefing for a Muslim organization. Numerous news accounts also had said federal agents suspected Al-Arian of links to terrorism. Al-Arian and his family also were photographed with Bush during a March 2000 campaign stop near Al-Arian's suburban Tampa home.... Al-Arian posed with Bush and his wife, Laura, at the Florida Strawberry Festival on March 12, 2000, a moment captured in an Al-Arian family photo. Nahla Al-Arian said Bush noticed her traditional headscarf and asked to meet her family. "The Muslim people support you," she recalled telling him. The family said that Bush gave their lanky son, Abdullah, the nickname "Big Dude."...And Bush sent a letter of apology to the suspect's wife after the Secret Service ejected their son -- who was then a congressional intern -- from the White House complex during a separate June 2001 meeting of Muslims interested in the president's faith-based initiative. Al-Arian's appearance at the White House came six days earlier, also as part of the administration's outreach to Muslims, officials said.... Al-Arian has told The Post that he and wife Nahla campaigned for Bush in Florida mosques and elsewhere because they thought him the candidate most likely to fight discrimination against Arab Americans." 2.22.03