{"id":35446,"date":"2012-11-02T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_muslims_back_obama_but_by_smaller_margin_than_in_2008\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:15:30","slug":"rns_muslims_back_obama_but_by_smaller_margin_than_in_2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35446","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Muslims Back Obama, But By Smaller Margin Than In 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While fewer Muslims are supporting Obama this year, Muslim support for Mitt Romney &#8212; at just 7 percent, according to the CAIR poll &#8212; is more than triple the 2.2 percent of Muslims who voted for GOP nominee John McCain in 2008.<br \/>&#8220;Muslims need tough love, not soft coddling to get over their illusions of Islamist fantasies,&#8221; said Ahmed Vanya, an engineer in San Jose, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Vanya fears that many Muslims won&#8217;t give Romney a fair chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many Muslims are not going to be happy with the way Romney would handle the civil rights issues,&#8221; Vanya said. &#8220;Even if he follows exactly the same policies as Obama, he would be perceived as worse for the Muslims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/30\/muslims-back-obama-smaller-margin-than-2008_n_2042622.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While fewer Muslims are supporting Obama this year, Muslim support for Mitt Romney &#8212; at just 7 percent, according to the CAIR poll &#8212; is more than triple the 2.2 percent of Muslims who voted for GOP nominee John McCain<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35446\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,426,616,155,151,667,108,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-islam","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}