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the American Muslim voter

Date: February 17, 2004 | 25 Dhu-l-Hijjah 1424 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: analysis, bloc, vote
Back in December, I posted about the nascent efforts of the American Muslim community to mobilize politically. In particular, I talked about a coalition of national Muslim organizations that was forming, and I shared my thoughts about it (more here).

That coalition has now formally launched: the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections. They appear to have backed off from the goal of endorsing a candidate and promoting a bloc vote (which was something that I discussed at length) but will be concentrating on getting the American Muslim community politically active and involved. They have posted their 2004 Election Plan.

Brothers and sisters, repeat after me: I'm American, I'm Muslim, and I vote.

Added: In talking about bloc voting, I'm thinking of the primaries. Reports about Muslim and Arab-American Uncle Toms notwithstanding, the Muslim and Arab-American communities will almost certainly be bloc voting for the Democratic candidate in the general election and the American Muslim Taskforce doesn't need to do anything to ensure that, Bush has been completely effective by himself in driving Muslims and Arab-Americans away from his party.

More: Muslim Wake Up has an interesting post about this that seems to take a slightly different view. It also contains useful information about the Bush donors I referred to derisively as "Uncle Toms" (this is kinder than some of the names I've seen given to the donors in discussions on Muslim email lists that I belong to).
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 11:08 AM

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