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.
Personally, I want the remaining 32% to get with the program. I don't want any terror appeasers who lay the blame for everything that goes wrong in this world on "the Jews", including "misguided US policy" as motivation for 9/11 attacks.
How many American Muslims are black?
What is the normal % votes for a conservative candidate within the black population?
Was this criteria broken down in this Islam poll?
And it's funny how Zogby doesn't mention the real reason Gore didn't get as many Muslim votes in 2000 -- having Joe Lieberman on the ticket.
I guess that they haven't been listening. Kerry would react in fear if there was another attack.
Good news for the Jewish Democrats.
That's what Bush gets for being nice and calling their religion, a religion of peace. He should have called it a religion of war.
If Muslims in America are perceived to have a critical effect on the election, we will end up fighting in the streets within our lifetimes to avoid islamization of the USA, or at least significant areas. The goals of these organizations revolve around the central precept of a worldwide caliphate. Welcome to Armageddon, everyone gets a turn.
Let's see the MUSLIMS endorse KERRY.....please......
Where was thy outcry from Muslim "Americans" when The World Trade Center was hit? Are they marching in the streets in protest of innocents being beheaded?
No. There have been mild protests by a very few but those are very few and far between.
From various articles posted on FR, it would seem that Bush has no more popularity among Jewish voters than among Moslem voters. Of course, the main difference is that the Moslem vote did go heavily GOP in 2000.
Pray for W and Our Troops
They won't have a critical effect on the election.
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.
40mm HE rounds from Puff might get them on a regular jogging schedule, don't you think? Especially from a water-cooled airborne cannon?
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I'm embarrassed you can vote in the United States.
Pardom my lack of interest in the disposition of the Muslim vote.
They need to get the H**L out of the US. I am sick of these F***ken people. They come over here and use our resources, claim they are Americans then turn their backs on the people of this country. Why don't they just go back to where they came from. They sure can't do this in the countries that they came from. I have not heard anything out of these jerks mouths about the horrible things that the terrorist are doing to innocent people. I'm sorry but I have no use for these people. I want them out of our Country.
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, that they want them to stop killing people in the name of their religion? Their silence speaks volumes. They scream pretty loud when they perceive their "civil rights" are being violated.
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