[tsowellfan]

The source is playing with words. There are Arab Americans who call themselves "Muslim" if you ask them what their religion is but they really see themselves as Arab-Americans first. They are as Muslim as Ted Kennedy was Catholic. I asked one of them (pretending to be naive) if he believed in Jesus. You know what he said? "Of course! You cannot be a Muslim if you don't believe in Jesus".

I thought that was an odd answer.

[jjotto]

Jesus (Issa) is considered a great prophet in Islam and will return along with the Mahdi (Islam’s Messiah) to convert or slay unbelievers.

[JohnPDuncan]

There’s still a perception. Many of them did not like the Iraq war and they dont like the heated rhetoric from our side that too many people are willing to use.

There’s no other reason why its flipped so badly in the last 12 years when they were all Bush voters.