US polling shows widespread support for identifying and excluding Muslims

Evidence

Muslims are the “new niggers” of this globalizing racial americanization, present-day pariahs. And given that transnational flows are less readily containable and conditioned than they were a century ago, this newly necessitated activism has redounded back on the American “homeland” (how much more an ironically inverted historical invocation of racially conceived place can one get?). 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

Categorization

• SHARE: The 39% special-identification stat is worth sending to anyone working on civil liberties or religious discrimination data.
• XREF: connects to: A third to two-fifths of Americans endorse special restrictions on Muslims. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 457