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One in six voters still think Obama’s a Muslim: Why?

    WASHINGTON — After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is incorrectly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only one quarter of voters can correctly identify him as a Protestant, according to a new poll. Voters do better identifying Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, according to a poll released [...]

Was There Really a Post-9/11 Backlash Against Muslims?

    Over at Commentary, Jonathan Tobin complains that “most of the mainstream media still takes it as a given that there is an ongoing and brutal post-9/11 backlash against Muslims in America that fuels discrimination against followers of Islam.” I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the backlash characterized as “brutal” in the mainstream media, or [...]

Amnesty International: “European Muslims are discriminated against”

    April 24, 2012  Amnesty International reports that European countries discriminate against Muslims who show their faith publically. This is especially visible in places of education and at various workplaces. The report focused on Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. Amnesty urges those governments to do more on prevention of prejudices about Islam. The organization is [...]

French imams urge Muslims to vote

    News Agencies – April 20, 2012   More than twenty French imams urged their parishioners to vote in the presidential elections on April 22nd and May 6th to become “actors in their own change.” In one example, the Suburb Independent Front (le Front des banlieues independent) asked the thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque [...]

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Study suggests that 93% of French Muslims voted for François Hollande

    News Agencies – May 9, 2012   A poll by L’institut de sondages OpinionWay suggests that in the second round of voting in the French presidential elections on May 6th, 93% of Muslims voted for President-elect Hollande. 59% of those polled voted for Hollande in the first round of voting.   “It is the mark [...]

New Book: Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France

Rahsaan Maxwell

    Integration Trade-Offs

    Published by Cambridge Press

    This book addresses why some ethnic minority migrant groups have better economic and political integration outcomes than others. The central claim is that social integration leads to trade-offs with economic and political integration. The logic behind this claim is that socially segregated groups may have difficulties interacting with mainstream society but will have more capacity [...]

General US Election Preferences by Religious Group

    Published by Pew Forum

    With voters continuing to focus on economic issues, Barack Obama holds a slim 49% to 45% advantage over Mitt Romney in the latest polling by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. However, Romney holds a 53-point lead over Obama among white evangelicals and a 20-point lead among white Catholics. Obama’s strongest [...]