Before 2008, around forty percent of Americans supported special ID requirements for Muslims

Evidence

Prior to Obama’s candidacy for president, nearly half of Americans in 2005 reported the threat of radical Islamic terrorism as serious as the threat of Communism in the twentieth century. In 2006, a USA Today / Gallup poll reported that 39 percent of Americans “felt at least some prejudice against Muslims” and 39 percent supported requiring Muslims, including US citizens, to carry special identification—a requirement imposed on Jews in Germany in the years preceding the Holocaust. The same poll found that 51 percent of Americans believed Muslims are not loyal to the United States, and a quarter of Americans did not want a Muslim as a neighbor. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 840 (#expands, via linked claim)

Recent polls in the US indicated that 39 percent of Americans would have Muslims in the country, whether or not citizens, carry special identification, one-third reject Muslims as neighbors and have a sense of Muslims as terrorists and breeders of hate. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 457 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US polling shows widespread support for identifying and excluding Muslims — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 457; Substantial minorities of Americans endorse curtailing Muslim civil liberties — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 756; By 2006 a third of Americans endorsed Muslim identity cards like Nazi-era policies. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 840 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• By 2006 a third of Americans endorsed Muslim identity cards like Nazi-era policies. #expands (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 840
• A third to two-fifths of Americans endorse special restrictions on Muslims. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 457