Party affiliation and religiosity predict American suspicion of Muslims

Evidence

Partisan political affiliation and religiosity determined the degree of suspicion of Muslims. Sixty percent of Republicans believed that “some” Muslims hold anti-American views, whereas 50 percent of Democrats believed “just a few” Muslims harbor anti-American sentiment. Likewise, only 37 percent of Republicans, compared to 57 percent of Democrats, report they would favor construction of a mosque in their neighborhood. Despite their grievances against so-called secularists assaulting their religious freedom, White Evangelical Protestants were the least likely of all surveyed religious groups (26 percent) to say that few or none of the Muslims in the United States are anti-American. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 828

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the irony of white evangelicals’ religious-freedom grievances versus their own anti-Muslim bias — echoes the book’s earlier ‘immodesty panic’ dynamic of in-group/out-group scapegoating. — connects to: Religious ideological orientation now predicts political views better than denomination or party — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 173; Political Islam framing is debated among US foreign policy elites of both parties
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 828