February 11, 2016
What a New Poll Says about Muslims and American Politics
Almost every day, pundits inform us about the voting intentions and habits of various groups in elections in the United States. Almost by decimal points they have identified the intentions of blacks, Jews, evangelicals, Presbyterians, seniors, gays, and others. Now, a new survey in January 2016 by the Pew Research Center has informed about the electoral intentions of Muslims in the U.S. as well as about attitudes of Americans toward Muslims.
The Pew survey, by chance, provides a useful opportunity to comment on the assertions made on February 3, 2016 by President Barack Obama in his first visit to a mosque in the United States. In his speech at the 47-year-old Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque, the president, after praising Muslim achievements in various activities in American life, exhorted his immediate audience, but in essence the American people as a whole, to do the right thing, and endorse religious pluralism.
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