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.
And It pisses off when they whine about that. There has been no backlash against Muslims in this country despite the butchery commited against innocent Americans by Muslims.
The best thing The Islamists living here could do is join the fight against terror or just shut the hell up.
We think alike. I am also an X-Dem.
The religion of peace has millions of members, yet not one has issued a "fatwah" or declared a "jihad" against Osama bin Laden, their home-grown animal who killed 3000 of our citizens. When they start doing so en masse, I'll start having some respect for their religion.
Most polls seem to show both Moslem and Jewish support for GWB at 20% or so, nationwide. Unless there's lots more harassment of Moslems going on lately, I would think that they would be much better off supporting Bush. (Similarly for the Jewish voters.) Most Jewish (and other "minority") voters though tell me that it's the party not the policy that they dislike.
All politics is personal. When someone says something like "xx% of Jews (or Moslems or Hispanics or Blacks or YFEGs) are stupid" or "should be expelled" etc., those associated with the expressor tend to be seen similarly. This has been true in politics for (in my observation) over 50 years. I'm sure it goes back.
Before they join up with the America haters, Blacks should be reminded that Arabs/Muslims used to castrate their black slaves.
Still want to be buddies with them?
Just another indication of their support for terrorists and their actions. Just another indication that immigration should be discontinued for fifty years or more.
All I can think is, "STFU!"
Nobody is the same as they were in 2000!
But, hey, take your vote and "SHOVE IT"!
If you blamed the president for Muslim terrorists butchering unbelievers and warring with every other religion in the Middle East and you and your brethren refused to vocally and publicly repudiate terrorism as a tool to convert infidels, I do not think there is a Republican that would want your vote.
That's why I will buy back my gun from a friend. It was so unused for years I didn't need it in my closet. But it has been oiled and used and boresighted. It's an M-16. I won an AF ribbon for shooting it. I don't want to, but count me as a patriot if I'm needed.
I can't think of a better endorsement than this.
A qquestion for President Bush: "Mr. President, what will be your response be if some US city suffers some horrific attack will kills more than 100,000. Do you just stay the course."
What I would like to hear: "Thanks, Brit, I'm glad you asked that question. We have singled out nearly 150 Islamic mosques around the world which are the hotbeds of Al Quada. We already have cruise missiles at the ready for such an event."
How interesting. It has been a while that I have heard of the "immigration issue" and it should be discussed. We certainly have a long way to progress and I just cannot see Kerry doing anything to make it better.
In this country when the KKK burns crosses on lawns or kill and terrorize people, there is a cry of outrage throughout America. We have told the KKK that we will not tolerate their terrorist tactics. Religious leaders of all denominations have voiced their outrage. Why don't you see the same thing coming from Muslim Mullahs and the "moderate" Muslim community, when it comes to the actions of "radical" Muslims? Action speak louder than words. If Muslims root out the "terrorists" from their communities and crush them, then maybe people will believe that they are genuinely opposed to the Jihadists.
On their website there's an email address at the bottom of the page (Englishnews@islam-online.net). I passed them a few thoughts + comments from this post. I hope they enjoy them.
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Shoud read:
AMERICAN's WALKING AWAY FROM Mulisms The followers of Mad Mo (piss be upon his head)
Agree.
Xinhua News."As scholars, we condemn any hostility that restricts the freedom of people of any religion, whether by unjustifiably holding or kidnapping them, especially what is going on with the two French journalists, and we also condemn the killing of innocent people and ask their killers what guilt did they have," said Al Waidh concerning killing and kidnapping foreigners.
"In front of the world, we call to stop those acts, whichpicture the Iraqi people as savages and murderers before the world," he continued.
He also called for a halt to violence and heading towards rebuilding the country, and accused al-Qaida of standing behind many of the suicide attacks that targeted Iraqis.
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