By Matthew Agar, Program Coordinator, American Islamic Congress This is the first piece in a series on Muslims and the 2016 Presidential Elections. This election has turned out to be a monumental moment for Muslim Americans. Of the substantive issues brought up during the Presidential debates, issues of Islamophobia, countering violent extremism, and refugees are front…
Read MoreAmerican Muslims will be an important voting bloc in the 2012 presidential election, but some politicians have been hesitant to reach out to the community for fear of a backlash, said Corey Saylor, spokesman for the Council of Islamic-American Relations. In 2010, the Pew Research Center estimated that nearly 2.6 million Muslims lived in the…
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