Only conservative Republicans hold majority support for heightened Muslim scrutiny

Evidence

Conservative Republicans are the only major ideological, demographic or religious group in which a majority (57%) says Muslims in this country should be subject to greater scrutiny than those in other religious groups.” “Views of Government’s Handling of Terrorism Fall to Post-9/11 Low,” Pew Research Center, Dec. 15, 2015, www. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1639

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the religious-majority framing around Islamophobia as a right-coded political stance, echoing the moral-panic literature on how politically partisan groups differentially target out-groups.
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone tracking Muslim-American civil liberties polling — this is a crisp, single-group data point that undercuts the ‘everyone fears Muslims’ framing.