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Guess who U.S. Muslims are voting for
The results came in a groundbreaking
scientific poll for WND by the public-
opinion research and media consulting
company Wenzel Strategies. It was taken
Oct. 22-26 and carries a margin of error
of plus or minus 3.98 percentage points.
The poll also found 40 percent of Muslims
in America believe they should not be
judged by U.S. law and the Constitution,
but by Shariah standards.
And the big winner among Muslim-
Americans in the presidential election is
Barack Obama, the poll found. More than
72 percent said they are definitely
supporting Obama, and another 8.5
percent are leaning that direction. Only 11
percent are for Romney.
Nearly 55 percent of the American Muslim
voters say the U.S. is on the right track,
and another 13 percent are uncertain.
Virtually all of the respondents (98
percent) are American citizens and 97
percent are registered to vote.
Almost half of those Muslims surveyed
an astonishing 46 percent said they
believe those Americans who offer
criticism or parodies of Islam should face
criminal charges, said pollster Fritz
Wenzel in an analysis of the surveys
results.
Even more shocking: One in eight
respondents said they think those
Americans who criticize or parody Islam
should face the death penalty, while
another nine percent said they were
unsure on the question, he said.
Wenzel said even the 9 percent
undecided on that particular question is
alarming.
Seldom in survey research does a
response of not sure carry such
significance, but the response to this
question certainly is a surprise, given the
severity of the question, and offers insight
into the conflict that some Muslims
appear to face in making the ideals under-
girding American society fit into their
religious lifestyle, he said.
Wenzels poll said 7.2 percent of the
respondents said they strongly agree
with the idea of execution for those who
parody Islam, and another 4.3 percent
said they somewhat agree.
While 80 percent said that they somewhat
or strongly disagree with the idea, when
those who said they were not sure are
added, one in five Muslims across
America cannot say they believe
Christians or others who criticize
Muhammad should be spared the death
penalty.
More Muslim women (10.4 percent) than
Muslim men (4.9 percent) said they
strongly agree with the idea, while 12.4
percent of the women and 7.1 percent of
the men were uncertain about the issue
involving Muhammad.
Four in 10 said Muslims in America
should not be judged by U.S. law and the
Constitution, but by Islamic Shariah law.
A much smaller percentage said they
think the U.S. should establish an entirely
separate court system to adjudicate
matters involving Muslims, Wenzel said.
While the respondents overwhelmingly
lean toward the Democratic Party and like
the direction Barack Obama, who
repeatedly has praised Islam around the
world, is leading this nation, they also
have a fundamental conflict with
American life, expressing objections to the
freedom of speech and religion
guaranteed in the Constitution.
American Muslims, Wenzel said, show
signs of ambivalence toward the U.S.
Constitution generally and the First
Amendment specifically.
These survey findings show a community
in conflict with the foundations of our
nation, as many Muslims favor and enjoy
the freedoms offered by the U.S.
Constitution, including participation in
elections here, but at the same time
significant percentages want to be treated
differently than the average non-Muslim
when it comes to legal matters, he said.
While 39 percent of Muslims said they
believe existing U.S. courts should consult
Shariah law when adjudicating cases
involving Muslims, a plurality of 45
percent said they do not agree with this
idea. Asked if the U.S. should establish
separate courts based solely on Shariah
law to adjudicate cases involving Muslim,
21 percent said it should. Two-thirds of
respondents 66 percent said that
separate courts are not necessary to
adjudicate Muslims.
While 9 of 10 of the Muslim respondents
said they agree with the First
Amendment, they are also in conflict with
it, Wenzel said, citing evidence in answers
to another question in the survey which
found that one-third of Muslims 32
percent believe Shariah should be the
supreme law of the land in the United
States, Wenzel said.
Another shocking finding from the
survey is how Muslims view the religious
freedoms of Christians. Asked whether
U.S. citizens who are Christians have the
right to evangelize Muslims to consider
other faiths, just 30 percent agreed
Christians have such a right. Another 42
percent said they do not have such a
right, while 28 percent said they were
unsure on the question.
One in five say Muslim men should be
allowed to follow their religion in
America and have more than one wife,
and 58 percent said criticism of their
religion or of Muhammad should not be
allowed under the Constitution.
While 43 percent said they disagreed with
the idea of Christians evangelizing
Muslims, another 27 percent said they
were undecided. Only 19 percent said
they strongly agree with the idea that
Americans have a right to invite Muslims
to consider another faith.
Nearly one in three said Israel either has
no right to exist or they were uncertain
whether it does.
Robert Spencer, author of Stealth Jihad
and Did Muhammad Ever Exist?, told
WND the survey is a disquieting
indication that Muslims in the U.S.
support Shariah blasphemy laws and want
to bring them to the U.S.
This should not surprise anyone, he
said. There is no reason to believe that
Muslims in the U.S. believe in a different
form of Islam from that which prevails
everywhere else. But it underscores the
need for Americans to defend, forthrightly
and without apology, the freedom of
speech, as it is increasingly embattled
today, and to revive and enact anti-
Shariah laws nationwide.
Spencer has authored 12 books on Islam
and has led seminars about jihad for the
United States Central Command, United
States Army Command, the FBI, the Joint
Terrorism Task Force and others.
Pamela Geller, author of Stop the
Islamization of America and a WND
columnist, said: Restrictions on free
speech are part of Shariah. This poll does
nothing but show that Muslims in this
country adhere to Shariah in large
numbers. What is surprising is that the
percentage of those who oppose free
speech isnt higher. But probably many of
the respondents already know better than
to say what they really think to non-
Muslim pollsters.
Walid Shoebat, who used to be a
radicalized Muslim willing to die for the
cause of jihad before he adopted
Christianity in 1994, was a member of the
PLO and was recruited to plant a bomb in
Bethlehem. The author of Gods War on
Terror told WND it is not right that
Muslims have a double standard.
He said to be fair, any Muslim who says
the Bible is corrupt or the Christians
corrupted the Bible should be penalized
in the way they want to punish Christians
who mock or ridicule Muhammad.
The world should appreciate the way the
West deals with hurt feelings, he said,
citing Americas rejection of a single
individual who recently wanted to make
an issue of burning a Quran.
[Muslims] should be demonstrating how
great America is, he said. They should
be saying, Allah bless America.
The Pew Research Center estimates
America is home to some 2.6 million
Muslims.
The results came in a groundbreaking
scientific poll for WND by the public-
opinion research and media consulting
company Wenzel Strategies. It was taken
Oct. 22-26 and carries a margin of error
of plus or minus 3.98 percentage points.
The poll also found 40 percent of Muslims
in America believe they should not be
judged by U.S. law and the Constitution,
but by Shariah standards.
And the big winner among Muslim-
Americans in the presidential election is
Barack Obama, the poll found. More than
72 percent said they are definitely
supporting Obama, and another 8.5
percent are leaning that direction. Only 11
percent are for Romney.
Nearly 55 percent of the American Muslim
voters say the U.S. is on the right track,
and another 13 percent are uncertain.
Virtually all of the respondents (98
percent) are American citizens and 97
percent are registered to vote.
Almost half of those Muslims surveyed
an astonishing 46 percent said they
believe those Americans who offer
criticism or parodies of Islam should face
criminal charges, said pollster Fritz
Wenzel in an analysis of the surveys
results.
Even more shocking: One in eight
respondents said they think those
Americans who criticize or parody Islam
should face the death penalty, while
another nine percent said they were
unsure on the question, he said.
Wenzel said even the 9 percent
undecided on that particular question is
alarming.
Seldom in survey research does a
response of not sure carry such
significance, but the response to this
question certainly is a surprise, given the
severity of the question, and offers insight
into the conflict that some Muslims
appear to face in making the ideals under-
girding American society fit into their
religious lifestyle, he said.
Wenzels poll said 7.2 percent of the
respondents said they strongly agree
with the idea of execution for those who
parody Islam, and another 4.3 percent
said they somewhat agree.
While 80 percent said that they somewhat
or strongly disagree with the idea, when
those who said they were not sure are
added, one in five Muslims across
America cannot say they believe
Christians or others who criticize
Muhammad should be spared the death
penalty.
More Muslim women (10.4 percent) than
Muslim men (4.9 percent) said they
strongly agree with the idea, while 12.4
percent of the women and 7.1 percent of
the men were uncertain about the issue
involving Muhammad.
Four in 10 said Muslims in America
should not be judged by U.S. law and the
Constitution, but by Islamic Shariah law.
A much smaller percentage said they
think the U.S. should establish an entirely
separate court system to adjudicate
matters involving Muslims, Wenzel said.
While the respondents overwhelmingly
lean toward the Democratic Party and like
the direction Barack Obama, who
repeatedly has praised Islam around the
world, is leading this nation, they also
have a fundamental conflict with
American life, expressing objections to the
freedom of speech and religion
guaranteed in the Constitution.
American Muslims, Wenzel said, show
signs of ambivalence toward the U.S.
Constitution generally and the First
Amendment specifically.
These survey findings show a community
in conflict with the foundations of our
nation, as many Muslims favor and enjoy
the freedoms offered by the U.S.
Constitution, including participation in
elections here, but at the same time
significant percentages want to be treated
differently than the average non-Muslim
when it comes to legal matters, he said.
While 39 percent of Muslims said they
believe existing U.S. courts should consult
Shariah law when adjudicating cases
involving Muslims, a plurality of 45
percent said they do not agree with this
idea. Asked if the U.S. should establish
separate courts based solely on Shariah
law to adjudicate cases involving Muslim,
21 percent said it should. Two-thirds of
respondents 66 percent said that
separate courts are not necessary to
adjudicate Muslims.
While 9 of 10 of the Muslim respondents
said they agree with the First
Amendment, they are also in conflict with
it, Wenzel said, citing evidence in answers
to another question in the survey which
found that one-third of Muslims 32
percent believe Shariah should be the
supreme law of the land in the United
States, Wenzel said.
Another shocking finding from the
survey is how Muslims view the religious
freedoms of Christians. Asked whether
U.S. citizens who are Christians have the
right to evangelize Muslims to consider
other faiths, just 30 percent agreed
Christians have such a right. Another 42
percent said they do not have such a
right, while 28 percent said they were
unsure on the question.
One in five say Muslim men should be
allowed to follow their religion in
America and have more than one wife,
and 58 percent said criticism of their
religion or of Muhammad should not be
allowed under the Constitution.
While 43 percent said they disagreed with
the idea of Christians evangelizing
Muslims, another 27 percent said they
were undecided. Only 19 percent said
they strongly agree with the idea that
Americans have a right to invite Muslims
to consider another faith.
Nearly one in three said Israel either has
no right to exist or they were uncertain
whether it does.
Robert Spencer, author of Stealth Jihad
and Did Muhammad Ever Exist?, told
WND the survey is a disquieting
indication that Muslims in the U.S.
support Shariah blasphemy laws and want
to bring them to the U.S.
This should not surprise anyone, he
said. There is no reason to believe that
Muslims in the U.S. believe in a different
form of Islam from that which prevails
everywhere else. But it underscores the
need for Americans to defend, forthrightly
and without apology, the freedom of
speech, as it is increasingly embattled
today, and to revive and enact anti-
Shariah laws nationwide.
Spencer has authored 12 books on Islam
and has led seminars about jihad for the
United States Central Command, United
States Army Command, the FBI, the Joint
Terrorism Task Force and others.
Pamela Geller, author of Stop the
Islamization of America and a WND
columnist, said: Restrictions on free
speech are part of Shariah. This poll does
nothing but show that Muslims in this
country adhere to Shariah in large
numbers. What is surprising is that the
percentage of those who oppose free
speech isnt higher. But probably many of
the respondents already know better than
to say what they really think to non-
Muslim pollsters.
Walid Shoebat, who used to be a
radicalized Muslim willing to die for the
cause of jihad before he adopted
Christianity in 1994, was a member of the
PLO and was recruited to plant a bomb in
Bethlehem. The author of Gods War on
Terror told WND it is not right that
Muslims have a double standard.
He said to be fair, any Muslim who says
the Bible is corrupt or the Christians
corrupted the Bible should be penalized
in the way they want to punish Christians
who mock or ridicule Muhammad.
The world should appreciate the way the
West deals with hurt feelings, he said,
citing Americas rejection of a single
individual who recently wanted to make
an issue of burning a Quran.
[Muslims] should be demonstrating how
great America is, he said. They should
be saying, Allah bless America.
The Pew Research Center estimates
America is home to some 2.6 million
Muslims.
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