At this point, it’s a generally accepted truism that the Republican Party is the epicenter of political Islamophobia — especially this election season. Over the past few months, candidates vying for the GOP presidential nomination have repeatedly used anti-Islam rhetoric as a way to inspire their base: Sen. Marco (R-FL) Rubio openly advocated for shutting down mosques; Ben Carson insisted that a practicing Muslim should not be president; and just this week, frontrunner Donald Trump — the man who famously proposed a ban on all Muslim immigration into the United States late last year — proudly declared that Islam “hates” America.
This unprecedented barrage of anti-Muslim hatred from members of the GOP has (understandably) created a tidy narrative in which Muslim Americans are expected to vote for liberal Democrats, such as when many in heavily-Muslim Dearborn, Michigan showed up in droves to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Michigan primary.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/11/3759062/when-muslim-americans-were-republican/
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