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Except when they aren't...

http://www.republicanmuslimcoalition.com/

But you have no time for facts and reality, do you?

It used to be Muslims were mostly republican:

Believe it or not, Muslim support for the Republican Party did not waver in the face of its gradual Christianization. On the contrary, Muslims saw common ground with Christians on most social issues. While the topic of abortion is not nearly as cut-and-dried for Muslims as it is for many Christians, the Muslim community certainly agreed with the goal of limiting them as much as possible – and more to the point, in limiting unwanted pregnancies in the first place by stigmatizing casual sexual encounters. Muslims shared with their Christian neighbors their belief in the sanctity of the nuclear family, and their belief that a household headed by a married mother and father was the best household in which to raise children.

By 2000, the Muslim community in America was several decades old, and had started to mature as a political entity. Muslim organizations almost unanimously endorsed George W. Bush. I voted for Bush that year. I would have voted for Bob Dole in 1996 if I weren’t so busy with medical school that I forgot to vote; I would have voted for Bush Sr. in 1992 if I weren’t still 17-years-old.

In the 2000 election, approximately 70 percent of Muslims in America voted for Bush; among non-African-American Muslims, the ratio was over 80 percent.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/essay-how-the-republican-party-alienated-the-once-reliable-muslim-voting-bloc/2012/11/15/23e2af70-2da5-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story.html

But the constant bigotry voiced by the GOP and culminating in Trump's talk of dipping bullets in pigs blood and shooting muslims has for some reason has cooled the muslims on the GOP....

Funny how that works, isn't it, Frank?

During George W. Bush's 2000 campaign, the GOP's outreach turned a corner. Bush strategist Karl Rove directed efforts specifically to Muslims, the first time the outreach was based on religion and not just ethnicity.

Both El-Abd and Salem were active on the 2000 Bush campaign. The former frequently acted as a campaign surrogate at events in New Jersey, and the latter advised the then-Texas governor throughout the campaign. “[Bush] respected the religious dimension of the community,” Salem says. “He respected our values, which are very much in keeping with the Republican values of hard work, economic opportunity, religious freedom, and making it on your own without a lot of government interference.”

Bush may have only won the election by the width of a Supreme Court justice's robe, but he took the Muslim vote by a landslide. Yet, by the end of Bush's eight years in office, he had lost the community entirely—despite making a personal plea to not conflate everyday Americans with terrorism, most notably in a speech six days after the 9/11 attacks at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.


http://www.dailydot.com/politics/trump-anti-muslim-islam-rhetoric/

So,do you think American muslims went from being good republicans to being liberal terrorist sympathizers in a few years, or do you think that maybe the bigotry inherent in your party rapidly alienated yet another minority group? Take your time, Frank- Think it over....

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