Vast Majority of Muslim Americans Not Fans of CAIR, ISNA, ICNA
From Jawa Report:
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The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center asked Muslim-Americans which group represented them, if any. The Council on American-Islamic Relations had the highest level of support, with 12 percent of men and 11 percent of women choosing it. The Islamic Society of North America came in second, with four and seven percent of men and women choosing it, respectively. The Muslim Public Affairs Council came in third, with six percent of men and one percent of women. The Islamic Circle of North America came in last, with 2 percent of men choosing it and less than one percent of women choosing it. Altogether, that means only 24 percent of Muslim-American men and 19 percent of Muslim-American women feel represented by one of the above five Muslim Brotherhood fronts. Of these, a significant portion are likely unaware of their favored organization’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The ability of these groups to jointly mobilize this minority of Muslim-Americans in order to influence the political process, as well as the rest of the Muslim-American community, is not to be overlooked. However, the survey shows that a majority of Muslim-Americans do not look to the Brotherhood network for leadership, and it is susceptible to a challenge from within the community if enough resources are available.The big question then is: if even Muslims in America don't feel represented by CAIR, why do some law enforcement and government agencies continually reach out to these groups as if they were legitimate representatives of Muslims?
6 comments:
Pastorius,
These groups may just be doing a very good job of portraying themselves as representative of American Muslims, and many non Muslims are probably afraid of being accused of bigotry if they question them. CAIR in particular however, does a good job of playing into the victim and bigotry cards, so that might also help to explain it.
They have money and are loud.
Anonymous,
That's probably another reason.
Tactically, I do not think there is much difference between CAIR and race-bating organizations run by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Politics:Perception =reality
I agree with Epa on this. However, this means there are an awful lot of Moderate/Nominal Muslims. Typically Muslims, when faced with opposition (and clearly there is mainstream opposition to CAIR) settle into victim mode and back the Muslim rather than the idea. In this case, however, we see that almost no one backs CAIR.
you could probably find more people in the Democratic party who would back Jeneane Garofolo this morning than you can find Muslims who back CAIR.
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