Posted on 06/22/2016 7:22:06 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
(CNSNews.com) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) estimates that the number of American Muslims registered to vote has jumped from around 500,000 in 2012 to at least 824,000 ahead of November’s election – a 64 percent increase.
CAIR said Tuesday that could be a possible indicator of increased political involvement due to anti-Muslim rhetoric by “public figures.”
It did not name names, but presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has come under fire for some campaign statements relating to Islam – especially his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. because of terrorism concerns.
The figures are not scientific: CAIR obtained them from first, middle or last names of registered voters that match a list of more than 43,000 “traditionally Muslim names developed by CAIR.”
Using the same methodology, CAIR’s estimate in 2012 was in the vicinity of 500,000, according to the group, which describes itself as the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.
CAIR says there could be more registered Muslim voters in the U.S. than the 824,000 figure cited. It noted that African American and Latino Muslims or Muslim converts did not necessarily have names that are traditionally associated with Islam.
Its estimates also excluded names that are common both to Muslims and non-Muslims, such as Sarah, Omar or Adam, it said.
“Knowing that more than 300,000 American Muslims have registered to vote since the last presidential election is a validation of the national and local Muslim community efforts to get out the vote,” CAIR’s government affairs director Robert McCaw said in a statement.
“As a community under the pressure of hostile political rhetoric calling for profiling of American Muslims, Muslim immigration bans and warrantless surveillance of mosques, we must utilize all the tools of positive civic engagement to preserve religious freedom and other constitutional rights,” he said.
Hoping further to increase the number of registered Muslims by November, CAIR recently launched a get-out-the-vote program designed to ensure that Muslims actively participate – by registering, volunteering in campaigns, hosting candidate forums and mobilizing the community.
The program will prioritize Muslims under 30, and recently naturalized citizens.
CAIR questionnaires will gauge candidates’ views on issues of concern to American Muslims.
A “religious pluralism pledge” will call on candidates to affirm that they will respect the tradition of American religious pluralism and not use their positions “to disparage or marginalize minority faiths.”
McCaw noted this month that key swing states, including Florida, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia, have large concentrations of Muslim voters, giving the community “the potential to tip close elections and to help determine who will be the next president.”
A CAIR poll last March of Muslim voters in six states – California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas and Virginia – found 46 percent support for Hillary Clinton, 25 percent for her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, and 11 percent for Trump.
After the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif. by a couple inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL), Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
He doubled down after this month’s terrorist attack in Orlando, saying that as president he would “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats.”
The San Bernardino attackers were the U.S.-born son of Pakistani migrants and his Pakistani-born wife. The Orlando terrorist was the U.S.-born son of migrants from Afghanistan.
How many Muslims?
According to the Pew Research Center, determining the number of Muslims in America is not easy, since the U.S. Census Bureau does not ask questions about religious affiliation.
Nonetheless, using “data on age, fertility, mortality, migration and religious switching drawn from multiple sources, including the 2011 survey of Muslim Americans,” Pew estimates there were about 3.3 million Muslim adults and children in the U.S. in 2015.
That constitutes a 20 percent increase over Pew’s 2011 estimate of 2.75 million Muslims, which in turn was a 17 percent increase over its 2007 estimate, 2.35 million.
A lower estimate around that time came from the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey, carried out by Trinity College scholars, which found the number of American adults self-identifying as Muslims to be 1.35 million.
In contrast, in his “address to the Muslim world” in Cairo in 2009, President Obama made reference to “nearly seven million American Muslims in our country.”
The seven million figure has been attributed to a 2001 survey of leaders from a representative sample of mosques.
It concluded that two million Muslims were associated with a mosque, and based on that number, determined that “estimates of a total Muslim population of 6-7 million in America seem reasonable.”
“Association” with a mosque was defined in that survey by at least attending Eid, the important end-of-Ramadan holiday.
Obama is feverishly working to get Muslim incursion into this country to the level of irrevocable damage and havoc that it creates.
If this immigration incursion of Muslims is not curbed, it will defeat this country just like Europe is essentially dead. All that’s left is the embalming.
Time to take America back, to resurrect it!
To the tune of 250,000 per year
He aims to destroy our culture, and our founding traditions, and our sovereignty. And the GOPe has done nothing to stop him.
Voting used to be our strength. Now its being manipulated so that it becomes our weakness.
The Islamic takeover of America...
Phase 1 has been completed’
Phase 2 has begun.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?314071-10/book-discussion-every-american-needs-know-quran&buy=
The only historical figure who said anything good about Islam was Hitler.
From Maimonides to Dante to Voltaire, Pascal to David Hume, to Gibbons to DeTocqueville to Churchill to Mark Twain (who said Mohammed was insane) and on and on they wrote how violent, destructive, illogical and insane it was. Patton spoke of how it degraded women.
All this needs to be brought out!
Oriana Fallaci (She gets it)
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense... I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion... I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans... Look at the school system of the West today. Students do not know history! They don’t know who Churchill was! In Italy, they don’t even know who Cavour was!... Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty... State-run television stations contribute to the resurgent anti-Semitism, crying only over Palestinian deaths while playing down Israeli deaths, glossing over them in unwilling tones... The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom... The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization... The struggle for freedom does not include the submission to a religion which, like the Muslim religion, wants to annihilate other religions... The West reveals a hatred of itself, which is strange and can only be considered pathological; it now sees only what is deplorable and destructive... These charlatans care about the Palestinians as much as I care about the charlatans. That is not at all... When I was given the news, I laughed. The trial is nothing else but a demonstration that everything I’ve written is true... President Bush has said, ‘We refuse to live in fear.’ Beautiful sentence, very beautiful. I loved it! But inexact, Mr. President, because the West does live in fear. People are afraid to speak against the Islamic world. Afraid to offend, and to be punished for offending, the sons of Allah. You can insult the Christians, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jews. You can slander the Catholics, you can spit on the Madonna and Jesus Christ. But, woe betide the citizen who pronounces a word against the Islamic religion.[88]
So bammy has been bringing in millions of our replacements without telling us, and with the help of a compliant media.
“Swarming” is an old tactic now being used by the globalist oligarch elites and their mindless Marxist minions and underlings to undermine what remains of Western Culture en-route to their insane and — human nature defying — IMPOSSIBLE Utopian paradise where all are equal — but SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE (THE OLIGARCHS!) ARE MUCH MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
If you’re STILL a bit unclear as to the end game here, DiLorenzo lays it out by the numbers — LITERALLY!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/06/thomas-dilorenzo/totalitarian-schemers-open-borders/
“Swarming” is an old tactic now being used by the globalist oligarch elites and their mindless Marxist minions and underlings to undermine what remains of Western Culture en-route to their insane and — human nature defying — IMPOSSIBLE Utopian paradise where all are equal — but SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE (THE OLIGARCHS!) ARE MUCH MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
If you’re STILL a bit unclear as to the end game here, DiLorenzo lays it out by the numbers — LITERALLY!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/06/thomas-dilorenzo/totalitarian-schemers-open-borders/
CAIR 64 where are you?
It’s not irrevocable, we just need a bigger hammer.
I am definitely going to vote for the BIG HAMMER. Even if from the grave.
CAIR is the largest Islamic Terrorist supporting group in the US - and is that way because it has been allowed to - even encouraged by the last several administrations. They are not just an apologist front-group, they have a truly nasty underbelly -
Cair has been lying about the number of Muslims in the USA for a long time. Their initial goal was to say there are as many Muslims as Jews.
It’s only fair. They helped build this country anyway. o.O
CAIR: Conspiracy of Angry Islamic Radicals.
He has already succeeded in flooding his Administration with his Muslim Brotherhood buddies.
True....but they can all be escorted out the door by Federal Marshalls at 12:01PM Inauguration Day, 2017.
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