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US Muslims Walking Away From Bush
Islam-Online ^ | September 24 2004

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; elections; muslims; muslimvote; napalminthemorning; whocairs
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To: Former Military Chick

I've been angry at what I thought was the cowardice of the Muslims in the US. This poll puts the finishing touches on what I suspected. They have every intention of turning the US into a nation of Islam. This will not stand.


41 posted on 09/24/2004 9:19:52 PM PDT by daybreakcoming
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To: Former Military Chick

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.

Ok, so who does a Muslim poll? Some stuff just STINKS no matter how you try to "sugarcoat" it.


42 posted on 09/24/2004 9:20:26 PM PDT by Just Lori (Exit strategy: Terrorism dead..... freedom flourishing)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
...it would seem that Bush has no more popularity among Jewish voters than among Moslem voters.

I'm puzzled by the above. The Jewish vote for GWB will far exceed 7%.It should be over 30%

43 posted on 09/24/2004 9:22:57 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Let US commanders run the war on terror in iraq,)
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To: greatgranny

What you said also applies to the muslim population in India. They use the resources, but hate the hindu majority. The muslims in India favor Pakistan (which has official state religion of islam) by about the same percentage as the muslims in USA oppose president Bush.


44 posted on 09/24/2004 9:23:06 PM PDT by gwbiny2k
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To: Jorge

But if they ever do, as you say we WILL end up fighting then in the streets, and WE WILL KICK THEIR BUTTS.

They are cowards, who slit the throats of helpless defenseless civilians but pee their pants when faced with REAL men.


I like you!


45 posted on 09/24/2004 9:23:17 PM PDT by Just Lori (Exit strategy: Terrorism dead..... freedom flourishing)
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To: Jorge

I live in an area of Western North Carolina where there are at least five times more firearms than people per capita. Methinks that this little chunk of mountains holds folks who would opt for a bang over a wimper, so to speak, and I count myself among them.


46 posted on 09/24/2004 9:23:46 PM PDT by NC Native ("Bombing begins in five minutes"... Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: halosfan2002

Peas in a pod, IMHO. Theyve been fighting and killing and looting for centuries over there, no doubt they will for centuries more. I say we kick ALL the middle easterns out.


47 posted on 09/24/2004 9:24:09 PM PDT by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: dalebert
Bush has been kind to US Muslims.

True, but if I was Muslim, and I read even a few of the posts on here, I would never vote Republican either.

48 posted on 09/24/2004 9:24:15 PM PDT by killjoy (The sky is falling and I want my mommy.)
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To: Former Military Chick
My support for Islamic occupiers of the United States of America:

0.00%

49 posted on 09/24/2004 9:25:05 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: Former Military Chick

"He failed us on Mid East peace..."

Who failed you? Perhaps the fault lies with (I'm going to go out on a limb, here) your murdering terrorist kindred, hmmm? I'm embarrassed you voted for him, too.

I think this is a good sign - I do not want those who would blame the U.S. for the problems in the Middle East voting for Bush. That would mean that something is seriously askew in the adminstration's terrorism policy. Let them go with the liberal weenie who will blame the U.S. also.


50 posted on 09/24/2004 9:25:11 PM PDT by Time4Atlas2Shrug (I have an opinion and a modem.)
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To: Former Military Chick

This means that Bush is doing the right thing. I would be worried if he had Muslim support.


51 posted on 09/24/2004 9:26:08 PM PDT by Wolfhound777 (It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
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To: Former Military Chick
According to the Zogby poll, around 69% of those polled said they would vote for the presidential candidate whom the US Muslim committee favors.

If this "herd instinct" is representative of American muslims thinking how can they be expected to adhere to democratic principles which involves independent thought? The herding instinct is representative of Socialism not Republicanism.

There are many ethnic groups that vote as a block, but none of them are responsible for world wide terrorism except the muslims. A show of independent thought among muslim factions would go a long way to show the American people that Islam isn't the solid-walled religious ideology we all think it to be.

On the other hand showing a "herd instinct" does support the view of many Americans that one muslim will follow another muslim without question in whatever event he may perpetrate.

52 posted on 09/24/2004 9:26:22 PM PDT by Noachian (A Democrat, by definition, is a Socialist.)
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To: NC Native

Damn, I think whimper has a pesky H in there somwhere.


53 posted on 09/24/2004 9:27:22 PM PDT by NC Native ("Bombing begins in five minutes"... Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: greatgranny

They're lucky they are in a country where they can speak their mind.....for now.


54 posted on 09/24/2004 9:28:18 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Time4Atlas2Shrug

The moslem's problems in the mid east have been self inflicted . Thats been the case for many many years.They are raped by their own kind . No sympathy here. The irony is they hate us yet they can vote here and have NO say back in their beloved homelands..


55 posted on 09/24/2004 9:28:33 PM PDT by omstrat (zip code)
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To: Former Military Chick
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 key here is their "civil rights" concerns, as if they have the right to have any. I am all for racial profiling when our country is at war with Muslims, just as I am all for Koramatsu (a decision by the way that has NEVER been overturned.)

It is up to American Muslims to pledge their allegiance to these United States and not whine about the fact that we are rightfully suspect about their allegiances and their motives. These people, imo, have no right to hide behind our constitutional protections, what they have is an OBLIGATION to win their RIGHT to them.

These groups deserve no protection, what we need is the kind of Committee for Un-American Activities to help us weed out the traitors from the Muslims who are Americans first. Those who are grateful to God, any God that they have the right to whine, express themselves and organize on US should should thank their lucky stars that they aren't in prison.

Proof of allegiance comes first for these people, then they can have their "civil rights." I think first you have to prove, beyond all doubt, that you are not only civil but that you are allied with THIS civilized nation. Can't do that? Get the hell out or say hi to "interment" Koramatsu style and have yourself a ball.
56 posted on 09/24/2004 9:28:35 PM PDT by N. Beaujon (sera@ix.net.com.com)
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To: Mike Darancette

"I guess that they haven't been listening. Kerry would react in fear if there was another attack."

They've been listening.
They're not worried about that because even they know he's a pathological liar.

He won't do squat to protect us and they're literally banking on it.


57 posted on 09/24/2004 9:28:51 PM PDT by Salamander (Pirates of the Appalachians)
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To: killjoy

Did you get a boo-boo? I'll go call a waaahhhhmbulance for you!


58 posted on 09/24/2004 9:28:59 PM PDT by NC Native ("Bombing begins in five minutes"... Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: killjoy
True, but if I was Muslim, and I read even a few of the posts on here, I would never vote Republican either.

They deserve the opprobrium they are getting. Of course they wouldn't agree, but that makes it no less valid. Most of those that became citizens lied when they swore allegiance to the USA. They just do not demonstrate it!!

59 posted on 09/24/2004 9:29:36 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Let US commanders run the war on terror in iraq,)
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To: garandgal
This is absolutely correct...and true of most "minority" groups in the US...they identify with their "group" above their country...and taken together they make up the DemocRAT Party. Sickening.
60 posted on 09/24/2004 9:30:35 PM PDT by Kylie_04
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