On Monday, Donald Trump singled out American Muslims as supporting repression and violence, citing a discredited poll from an anti-Muslim group as evidence for imposing border restrictions. But if he is worried about extremist public opinion in the United States, he should take a broader look around. Research shows that […] Read more »
Along with Trump’s rhetoric, the stakes for 2016 have risen dramatically
… Nothing in modern politics equates with the kind of rhetoric now coming from Candidate Trump. There are no perfect analogies. One must scroll back decades for echoes, however imperfect, of what he is saying, from the populist and racially based appeals of then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1968 and […] Read more »
Republicans wary of immigration from Middle East
With his call for blocking Muslims from entering the United States, Donald Trump may be tapping into deep concern among Republican voters about allowing Middle Eastern immigrants into the country, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. In particular, a majority of Republicans see a high risk that refugees from […] Read more »
Fear of Muslims Is Strong Predictor of Support for Trump
Public opinion surveyed in the weeks before the San Bernardino, Calif., attack show that those voters who believe Muslims are dangerous have especially favorable views of Donald Trump. What is somewhat more surprising is how Republican voters have efficiently sorted themselves on this issue among the many Republican candidates running […] Read more »
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in the name of Islam, has brought Muslims and the Islamic […] Read more »
Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from coming to the U.S. has a very bad poll at its center
At 4:16 p.m. Monday afternoon, Donald Trump reached an inevitable new nadir in his campaign’s fixation on the Islamic State and Muslim immigrants. In a statement released to the press, Trump demanded “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” — refugees, visitors, anything. … In the […] Read more »