hitokoriX posted...
Aight here we go:
First off, there is a difference between Arab Americans and Muslims -- but I found a rather interesting source. Per a poll featured in Zeteo (a fairly reputable news source):
* 50 percent of Muslims voted for Harris.
* 31 percent of Muslims voted for Trump
* 12 percent of Muslims voted for a third party/independent. I am assuming the remaining 7 percent didn't vote.
* Of the 31 percent who voted for Trump, 82 percent of them voted for him back in 2020.
So what does this tell us? Well, while some Muslims did vote for Trump, most didn't. This is on top of the fact that Biden was complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people and lied over and over again. The messaging from him and democrats was essentially -- yeah we did this. And we know how much it hurts you -- but you'll still vote for us anyway.
Now me personally, I'm one of the worst Muslims on the planet, but the Palestinian genocide made me consider, for the first time in my life, not voting, or not voting for a Democrat president. Eventually I was swayed by Mehdi Hasan, who had several good arguments about why Trump would be overall worse. When I spoke to fellow Muslims (largely arab), I did my best to explain that we had to pick the overall best candidate. Even if both were genocidal, one would still be better than the other.
What gets under my skin a bit is when people somehow frame us as being the straw that broke the camels back and got Trump elected. That simply isn't true. Per the Pew Research center, Trump saw increases amongst the Black, Hispanic, and Asian communities.
To close it off, I don't deny that there are folks in the Muslim.community that are conservative as hell. But I'm just sick and tired of people making us out to be the reason we are all here right now.
Sources:
https://zeteo.com/p/did-muslim-voters-swing-2024-trump-poll
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/behind-trumps-2024-victory-a-more-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-voter-coalition/
Great post, I appreciate the inclusion of legitimate metrics and data to support the claims made. Sadly, this is another classic Arab Americans in Dearborn Michigan topic that is posted on a near weekly cadence here, and the target response is meant to be either explicit disavowal of Arab Americans as a dependable voting bloc or introducing baseless claims that protest voters had as significant an impact on the presidential election as Trump voters.
For what its worth though, these topics would be much more worthwhile and not reek of low level influence operations if we had posts like yours.