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.
Hear, hear!
Call me cynical, but if we need the Muslim vote to win, we are hurting a lot worse than I think we are.
Buh-BYE indeed.
It is very difficult for them to denounce jihadist terrorism because their prophet engaged in the same actions. Their holy book advocates beheadings for infidels. The Koran requires Muslims to engage in jihad with infidels if they do not convert or accept dhimmitude (unbelievers agreeing to live under Islmic law).
For the "moderate" Muslim community to publicly condemn the actions of terrorists would be to condemn the literal practice of Islam. This religion is facing a serious crisis, in my opinion.
As long as they walk out of the USA in the process, that's fine with me.
They don't want kindness. They want surrender.
A few voices are not effective weapons against Muslim extremists. Where are the masses of people? We have seen them in anti-American and anti-Israeli demonstrations throughout the Muslim world. If there is a "Muslim Nation," where is the attempt to organize the kind of opposition that will root out and destroy the terrorists within that nation?
Why? So they can frag us when we have let our guard down?
" Of course, the main difference is that the Moslem vote did go heavily GOP in 2000. "
Heavily? Really?
Have you seen the statements of CAIR? Do you know how many Muslims they represent? It is about time denunciations have begun - 9/11 happened three years ago. Another far more powerful condemnation was issued recently by the Free Muslim Coalition. It is refreshing, but hardly commonplace. If only the self-flagellation on the scale of Abu Gharaib and the cries of the "world community" for America to denounce the actions of our soldiers there would occur within the Muslim community. If only the world would demand such a repudiation as they did from President Bush, I would believe that there is actual outrage. Unfortunately Abu Gharaib pales in comparison to what the Muslim terrorists inflict upon innocents every day and we are still apologizing. Let them vote for Democrats.
But no matter how you slice it, to condemn acts of violence against infidels is to condemn the actions of the prophet and the Koran itself.
Muslims have declared jihad against Hinduism, Christianity, and Judaism and even Islam (for non-Arabs). To accept Islam as a religion of peace, there needs to be evidence and the existence of Muslims who do not follow the dogma does not suffice.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225356/posts?page=14#14
Here's a quote from a link in the reply on that post:
"Al Jazeera, the most widely watched Arabic television channel, conducted a telephone poll during its top debating program, the Other Direction. In it, 93 percent of viewers said they approved of kidnapping foreigners in Iraq — even though by then, one of the two American hostages had been decapitated."
It would not surprise me if an anonymous poll were conducted amongst Islamics in America, the percentage would closely match that of the AJ poll.
I think you missed my point. I don't believe the Muslims would join the fight in the first place. and since they have not they should just shut the hell up.
I love it. "Where's the condemnation?" There's condemnation, from Sistani's office even. "That's not enough!!!"
Just like Gore flip-flopping on the standards for chads.
You're right. They'd have to revise their holy book and forever excise the parts that feed radical Muslims. As long as the Koran contains those extreme teachings, there will be radical Muslims. It has always been so. Some Muslims will choose to follow the "good" parts of the Koran that teach brotherhood, kindness and love. There will always be those who will choose to follow the parts that advocate cruelty, oppression and murder.
not only that, but they are more worried about their precious 'civil rights' than the nation's security....they absolutely hate the President's support of Israel...and they, curiously, are extremely quiet on the subject of Islamic terrorism....
Dogs are drawn to puke. Stands to reason they would migrate to Democrats.
I love the irony of being proved right by the simple fact of people attacking me for what I said.
I actually never stated, "That's not enough!!!" referring to the condemnation from Sistani's office - please re-read the post. You obviously missed the point of it and if you respond, please respond to my comments with them in their proper context.
Thanks.
right now, their 'arab brothers' are slaughtering the Sudanese blacks in their quest for 'ethnic cleansing'...
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