CAIR to Release Poll of Muslim Voters on Presidential Pick

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2012 — Results show Muslims may be key voting bloc in swing states nationwide.   On Wednesday, October 24, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), along with the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT*), will hold a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to announce…

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Op ED: Not all Republicans are Islamophobes but all Islamophobes are Republicans

The straw man of the famous post-Sept. 11 slogan, “Not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim” was debunked by a 2005 FBI report. It showed that only 6 percent of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by extremists calling themselves Muslims. But one group…

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Little Voter Discomfort with Romney’s Mormon Religion and Only About Half Identify Obama as Christian

Most voters continue to say it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs. But voters have limited awareness of the religious faiths of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. And there is little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates’ respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections….

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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…

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Tower Hamlets Blames Muslims in the Election Fraud Probe

02 May 2012 Tower Hamlets’ Legal Chief Isabella Freeman rejected the postal vote fraud allegations in the local elections and explained by blaming Muslim voters’ forgetfulness to sign the registered applications. The police has launched an investigation on the allegations.

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