Michigan Muslims move toward Clinton
Michigan Muslims move toward Clinton
By KATIE GLUECK at Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/swing-states-2016-election/2016/06/hillary-clinton-muslims-michigan-224424
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Hillary Clinton wasnt the first choice of Dearborns Muslims. But thanks to Donald Trumps escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric shes quickly moving into that position in Michigan, a state Trump is hoping to put in play.
Interviews with Muslim and Arab-American leaders in Dearborn and the Detroit metro area home to the nations largest concentration of Arab-Americans suggest that Democrats there are quickly making their peace with Clinton, spurred by concerns about Trump, even though many strongly preferred Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and helped him win the state.
Both locally and nationally, probably [Sanders] was the favored candidate, said Ismael Ahmed, a Dearborn-based member of the Arab American Institutes board of directors, who is running for the state board of education. But I think its a highly motivated community, as its moving forward, people are more and more accepting that the answer to stopping Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton. Theyre going to vote for her.
Shahid Tahir, chair of the Michigan Muslim Democratic caucus, agreed with that assessment. People say, God forbid, if he gets elected, I might move to Canada, even. There are concerns about his biased approach to minorities. All the ethnic communities are more comfortable with her.
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