I think your views on Americans being wary of Islam refelct your usual moderate to liberal stance on race issues I've come to know but if you found a poll that supported your views you would use it.
Btw, I supported the port deal as a tit for tat with the UAE for favors done....reluctantly.
But I resented W's race baiting....same as I resented his gender baiting on Harriet even though I supported him twice, marched for him a number of times with photo proof here on FR...I think he succumbs to PC race-religion-ethnicity kneejerkedness when it suits him....not like Clinton but still unseemly
and being distantly of Maronite DNA and having been married to and having two daughters with a Maronite Braslian, I fell I have the right to criticize Muslim Arabs all I want.
Is that ok with you?
You may have mistaken "W"'s quite natural reaction to the bigotry for "gender baiting". He pulled his punches ~ like it's been so long since we saw such raw and savage religious hatred that it could be he really didn't know how to answer.
Anyway, that's for a different time.
Regarding what you take to be "moderate to liberal" views on race, I'd suggest I have quite "rabid" views on race ~ rather along the lines of Dan Inoue's when he volunteered to take another Senator outside the Capitol Building and beat him to death with his own arm.
There's really no other way to deal with it you know (and I'm not referring to beating anybody to death, but you have to stand firm in the face of it every single time you run into it.)
I almost forgot -- Dubya DID gender-bait regarding Harriet as well as the recent race-baiting regarding the UAE.
His using CentCom Gen. Abizaid recently ("Arab-Muslim bashing") as a surrogate was especially embarrassingly egregious imo.