Thursday 2 June 2016

American Muslim organizations to intensify their efforts to urge Muslims to vote



WASHINGTON (Ina) - American Council for Islamic organizations working (USCMO), urged Muslims in the United States to participate strongly in the US presidential election, to be held in November / November next, through the campaign aims to register a million voters , a Muslim , at least. 
The advantage of the Council opportunity annual Conference of the Islamic circle of North America and Muslim American Society, which lasted three days, and concluded with the Baltimore city in the US state of Maryland, on Monday, and visited about 26 thousand people, in order to give momentum to his campaign, where he worked through his suite at the conference urged Muslims to register to participate in the elections. 
he said Naji victor, head of the Muslim voters Club in New York, one of the affiliated institutions under the umbrella of the American Council for the Islamic organizations, the campaign seeks to make Muslims more influential in the US presidential election, adding that Muslims respond through the ballot box on speech hatred directed against them. 
he pointed out the victor, according to Anatolia news agency, to a user expression in the United States says , "If you do not vote will not be taken into account", saying that the campaign aims to make a real difference, as the Muslims did not care for years to joint action with respect to voting in elections, considering that this is the only way to bring about a change in the United States. " 
he pointed out the victor to be the first campaign is unique in the history of the United States, which gives it special importance, regardless of the outcome of the. 
According to the victor that Muslims in the United States are showing active the largest in the ongoing elections, compared to all the previous elections, and attributed this to the hostile rhetoric of theMuslims who followed the likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. 
in December of last year, Trump launched the first election his anti-Muslims when he called for theimposition of a temporary total ban on their entry into the the United States "until a mechanism by which the separation of extremists and others , " and came back Trump emphasis on his remarks in March / last March, saying that "Islam hates us." 
the study by the Council on American - Islamic relations (CAIR), last February , it showed that 73 percent of Muslims in the United States, intending to cast their ballots in the US presidential election, 67 percent of them in favor of the Democratic party candidate, while expressed 7.47 percent expressed their support Donald Trump. 
He was 51 percent of the supporters of the Democratic party of Muslims support for Hillary Clinton, and about 22 percent expressed support for Bernie Sanders.

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