Survey Finds U.S. Muslims Liberal on Public Issues, Conservative on Family Values

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Survey Finds U.S. Muslims Liberal on Public Issues, Conservative On Family Values

A recent public opinion survey of American Muslims by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Washington, DC indicates that America's 6 to 8 million Muslims share a mixture of conservative and liberal attitudes that make them potentially receptive to political candidates from either major party. That conclusion is reinforced by the answers on party preferences provided by the Muslim respondents themselves.

The sampling of opinions of 259 randomly selected members of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), one of the America's largest Islamic membership groups, revealed that …