Posted on 09/24/2004 8:54:07 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
WASHINGTON, September 24 (IslamOnline.net) - With US presidential elections looming large, polls showed a drastic decline of American Muslims' support for US president George Bush in the coming November elections.
Nearly 68% of US Muslims said they would vote for Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry in the presidential elections, against only 7% eager to vote for the incumbent Bush.
According to the poll -- conducted by the Zogby International Center - and surveying 1700 US Muslims, around 11% of the Muslim community are willing to vote for the independent candidate Ralph Nader in the coming elections.
The poll also showed a turnout among the US Muslims' support for the Republican Party as only 12% said they support the Republicans, against 23% in the 2001 polls.
Around 50% of the US Muslims said they support the Democratic Party rising from 40% in 2001, while the support for independent candidates has increased to hit 31%, against 28% in previous polls.
Drastic Turnout
Polls in 2000 showed Muslims favoring Bush over Al Gore by a wide margin - some showed support in the 90 percent range - and some groups argued that some 60,000 Muslim votes put Bush over the top in Florida.
It's amazing how much can change in four years, according to the Zogby website.
“He is not the president he promised to be in 2000,” Samer Hanini, a 29-year-old architect, was quoted on the website as saying.
“He failed us in areas of Mid East peace, foreign policy and the economy. I’m embarrassed I voted for him.”
After the Sept. 11 attacks, and the anti-terror policies that followed, Muslim leaders who had organized the Bush endorsement said openly they had made a mistake , the USA Today said in a report last week.
On April 29, a poll conducted by the Washington-based Arab American Institute revealed that a majority of Arab Americans in four battleground states would vote for Kerry if presidential elections were held that day.
Political Unity
Feeling their influence in the US elections, the American Muslims are willing to politically unite during the November presidential elections as 81% expressed support for the agenda of the US Muslim civil rights and elections committee.
According to the Zogby poll, around 69% of those polled said they would vote for the presidential candidate whom the US Muslim committee favors.
Some 53% said they prefer to vote in the presidential elections as one group.
The US Muslim civil rights and elections committee comprises a number of major Islamic organizations in the United States, foremost of which are the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the American Islamic society, the American Muslim coalition, the Islamic group for North America and a group of Islamic groups in the country.
The agenda of the committee for the November elections touches on enhancing civil rights in the country as well as other issues of concern for the American public as education, economic reform, environment, election system reform and the dissemination of peace and justice.
When you are disagreed with, it in no way proves you right, nor is it necessarily an attack. Is this Senator Kerry to whom I am posting?
Go back and read what I wrote. It most definitely does prove me right. I said that if I was Muslim, reading posts on FR would definitely cause me to not vote Republican. The posts to this thread have in no way made my statement false.
In reverse chrono order, some related threads:
Arab-American Voters, Key In Ohio, Michigan, Shifting Back To Bush
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Posted on 09/15/2004 4:35:53 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217199/posts
Arabs in U.S. Raising Money to Back Bush
NY Times ^ | February 17, 2004 | LESLIE WAYNE
Posted on 02/16/2004 9:17:32 PM PST by yonif
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079525/posts
Arab-Americans switch: Bush to Kucinich
worldnetdaily.com ^ | 1/31/04 | worldnetdaily.com
Posted on 01/31/2004 5:06:37 AM PST by ovrtaxt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068913/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=napalminthemorning
But if you were a Muslim you also would worship a "prophet" who was a torturer and murderer and consider a book that teaches justification of all manner of vile treatment of those who believe differently to be holy scripture.
Until the international Muslim community voices resounding outrage at what is being done in the name of their religion...certainly louder than their complaints about how their civil rights are being violated or how it's harder for students to come to the U.S...they don't appear all that distanced from those committing the atrocities.
They fit more naturally with the Democrats anyways...they want a double standard to be able to dish it out but whine for protection from their own medicine. That's pure standard-operating-procedure for today's Democratic Party.
But the supposed attacks against you did not make that statement so, as you stated it did. If you remember, you said that the ATTACKS proved your statement to be correct, which occurred after your declaration. This declaration was true first and, therefore, the attacks could not have caused it to be true. I do believe that you would not vote for a Republican, having read the posts to this thread, if you were a Muslim. The attacks did not make this so.
After we take down the ACLU on RICO statutes:
1)Secure the borders and ports. We have the money, technology and manpower (I'll volunteer my services) to do it almost 'overnight'.
2)Register all American Muhammadans. Intern the males 13 and over. Place the families of these seperately. Deport or detain the rest and shoot 'runners'.
3)Send the Bees a buzzin (B-1s, 2s, 52s, etc) to Tehran, Damascus and the Ashpanistan region with some real 'shock and awe' that strikes fear and eliminates major problems.
4)Leave Israel to kill their own terrorist enemies and clean out their woods of the Death Cultists.
5)Outlaw Mein Koran.
In a generation or two, this mortal threat to the world and particularly America will be no more.
I forgot about that.
US Muslims Walking Away From Bush
Don't let the door hit y'all in the ass on the way out!
Let's say there were another 9/11 type attack on Kerry's watch and Kerry did squat what would his approval rating be?
Kerry would be afraid for his job if he didn't do something. I think American Muslims would suffer greatly.
Sadly, I can't see either candidate planning to do much about it. There has been an interesting development here locally. Anyone with a felony record is being kicked out of section 8 housing by the train load.
I don't know what lit a fire under who, but alot of house cleaning seems to be going on, and I do like that.
Thank you so very much for the excellent links, it is wonderful info. :)
Did he not state that he'd go to the UN for "proper approval" first?
His "approval rating" won't mean a damn thing if we're all sick/dying from a dirty bomb or bio-weapon.
By then it will be too late.
Terrorists know we'll have another klinton type in the WH.
His inaction/"slow, studied response" may cost him a second term due to voter dissatisfaction but by that time, it probably won't matter anyway.
I have no faith in his "hawkish" BS whatsoever.
Maybe "American Muslims" should show their disapproval [if they have any] of terrorism by supporting the president who is seeking to rid the world of it.
If Irish Protestant hillbillys had flown those planes into the towers, I'd be screaming my disapproval from the rooftops.
There comes a time when "right vs wrong" dictates that you must choose sides, even if it means choosing against your "own kind".
Just my humble opinion.
what can we do to make them leave the United States?
Hi Free Thinker: You wrote: "Where is their outrage at the slaughter of their fellow Americans? Why don't they organize mass protests to send a message to Al Qaeda and the "insurgents" in Iraq, . ."
Why aren't WE organizing mass protest to call attention to these Muslim sympathizers in our midst?? Seems to me, we ought to be shaming these people in a public manner BIGTIME.
It is NOT ok to live in America, enjoy the benefits of freedom, and then be ambivalent about our citizens being murdered. If it were up to me, we would freeze the muslims out of the U.S. meaning, not employee them and enable them to live here in the U.S. Their establishment in the U.S. is too risky. I don't want to share my country with these medieval barbarians. The good Muslims should go home and change their OWN country.
My comment that more Jews would support GWB than Muslims was based on the following from the lead to the thread: "Nearly 68% of US Muslims said they would vote for Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry in the presidential elections, against only 7% eager to vote for the incumbent Bush."
Did I miss something? Has that been happening lately?
These unreliable alien residents should be deported immediately! They cannot be counted on to support domestic security, but can be counted upon to offer silent approval to Muslim murderers and, in some cases, to offer actual support to them.
Perhaps I should have said "burned." That was my point. Cross burnings are not happening because we as a society condemned it and took legal action to stop it. The moderate Muslim world needs to do the same towards the radical elements in their communities.
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