USA: Narrow support for ban on Muslims entering U.S. -- Polls

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“What our responsibilities then should be as a Muslim community is just to reach out and educate the public as to what Muslims are and what Islam truly teaches.”

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Detroit News
By Mark Hicks | February 19, 2016

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A majority of likely Michigan Republican presidential primary voters said they support a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, according to a Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll released Friday.

About 51 percent of 600 likely GOP voters said they backed the idea while 40 percent responded that they opposed it, according to the survey by the Glengariff Group. Around 9 percent of those polled didn’t know or refused to answer.

New York City billionaire and GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump proposed the ban on Dec. 7, five days after Islamic State supporter Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik shot and killed 14 people at a San Bernardino, California, social services center. They were subsequently shot dead by police.
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The temporary Muslim immigrant ban was supported by 48 percent of likely primary voters who said they attend church weekly, while 42 percent were opposed.

Such a measure “goes totally against the American Constitution and the idea of religious freedom — especially since the individuals who came to this country in fact were trying to search for religious freedom,” said Mahir Osman, secretary of public affairs with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA’s Metro Detroit chapter. “What our responsibilities then should be as a Muslim community is just to reach out and educate the public as to what Muslims are and what Islam truly teaches.”


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