Muslim-Americans voted for Obama because…
November 18, 2008 by Capt. Karl
An Arab Christian woman and Middle East expert says she isn’t surprised at a recently released report that Barack Obama received 90-percent support from Muslim-American voters in the recent presidential election.
The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections, or AMT, is an umbrella organization that includes 11 other Islamic groups, including the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. Recently they gathered at the National Press Club to report on the electoral preferences of Muslim voters and their level of participation.
AMT commissioned a poll which revealed almost 90 percent of Muslims supported Barack Obama, while only two percent supported John McCain. Brigitte Gabriel is founder and president of ACT! for America and the author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. She says Muslim voters overlooked key differences they had with Obama on social issues — like abortion and marriage.
“They are willing overlook where he stands on abortion, where he stands on gay marriage and the like because as far as Muslims in America are concerned, they want to advance the cause of Islam in the United States,” she contends. “They are not worried how long it’s going to take or who’s going to help them facilitate it.”
Muslim voters, adds Gabriel, also supported Obama for another reason. “They know that Obama is going to be softer on the War on Terror. After all, vice president-(elect) Biden doesn’t even believe we have a war on terror,” she concludes. “He believes this is all a concoction of the Bush administration to basically enforce our opinion on the Middle East. So this is why Muslims in America would want to support Obama.”
Gabriel says the reports of secret meetings between Obama officials and the terrorist group Hamas give her pause about what kind of foreign policy the president-elect might pursue when he takes office in January.
