Muslim-American voters turn backs on Bush : survey

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Muslim voters, a majority of whom fear the "war on terror" is a war on Islam, have ditched President George W. Bush, and now lean towards rival Democrats, a poll showed. The community also overwhelmingly doubts the Iraq war was worthwhile and opposes the use of force to spread democracy, according to the survey published two weeks before crucial congressional elections.

"It shows the Muslim community votes should not be taken for granted," said Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which sponsored the poll. Forty-two percent of the snapshot of 1,000 voters among a database of 400,000 American Muslims identified themselves as Democrats and 17 percent were Republicans. Some 28 percent were non-affiliated. In...