Substantial minorities of Americans endorse curtailing Muslim civil liberties

Evidence

A Cornell University poll found that 44 percent of Americans still believe that some curtailment of civil liberties may be necessary for Muslims living in the United States. Similarly, over one-fourth of Americans surveyed (26 percent) believed that US mosques should be targeted with increased surveillance by law enforcement agencies. And to aid in that effort, nearly 30 percent of Americans thought that undercover law enforcement agents should monitor the constitutionally-protected activities of American Muslim civic organizations. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 756

Categorization

• XREF: These polling numbers tie into the machine cluster — surveillance of Muslim civic organizations is a concrete American instantiation of the global Islamophobic machinery. — connects to: Early American toleration debates explicitly extended civil rights to Muslims. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 46; Majorities of both Republican and Democratic voters supported the Muslim ban — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 507; Large minorities of Americans hold unfavorable views of Islam and Muslims — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 754 (+13 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 756

Related

• A third to two-fifths of Americans endorse special restrictions on Muslims. (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobes, not Muslims, constitute the gravest threat to American civil liberties (similarity 0.84)
• Majorities of both Republican and Democratic voters supported the Muslim ban (similarity 0.83)
• Majorities of Americans approved of Muslim surveillance even while holding positive views of Islam. (similarity 0.82)
• Even Muslim civil rights organizations are surveilled and discredited by the state (similarity 0.82)
• Large minorities of Americans hold unfavorable views of Islam and Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• The US government surveils Muslim civil rights organizations meant to protect Muslim liberties (similarity 0.81)
• Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship. (similarity 0.78)
• Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Large minorities of Americans hold unfavorable views of Islam and Muslims #corroborates (0.85) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 754
• Majorities of Americans endorsed profiling Muslims even while viewing Islam favorably #expands (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 82
• Majorities of Americans approved of Muslim surveillance even while holding positive views of Islam. #expands (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 64
• Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights. #expands (0.65)
• The US government surveils Muslim civil rights organizations meant to protect Muslim liberties #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 633
• Muslim Americans hold nominal but reduced substantive citizenship #qualifies (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1344
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #expands (0.55)
• Fear of state detention and deportation corrodes Muslim Americans’ sense of citizenship #expands (0.55)
• Islamophobes, not Muslims, constitute the gravest threat to American civil liberties #complicates (0.50)
• Anti-Muslim crisis periods simultaneously empower and marginalize Arab American communities #expands (0.50)