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American Islamic Forum for Democracy President Zuhdi Jasser breaks down the voting trends of Muslim Americans and the continued violence in Syria.
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I -- let's move on should always -- -- -- different violence continues in Syria.
President Masada -- and Mexico's his own people the calls are growing louder from President Obama to intervene.
How to most of Americans feel about this how could it play out in the November election joining us now is that he jobs.
He's the president of the American Islamic forum for democracy should welcome the program -- nice community in person that's yesterday -- across the table yeah.
I wanna talk about the Muslim vote festival before we do so let's talk about the Muslim votes in America -- skew either side of the political.
While also addressing -- think because the Islamist groups that are more well funded and a have been campaigning to victimization monster they've.
They -- them much more to the left into the democrats' last election was over 90% for Obama what about this month.
I think this a look at trying to be the same because he's president of American most of will vote Democrat I believe so that's -- watch this that shows because they have the left has been able to paint themselves as the protectors of Muslim.
Rights and civil rights and that the -- is against Muslims and anti Islam and anti Muslims and that's why you know on my book the battle for the soul of Islam.
I'm talking about the fact that actually.
The conservative ideas of liberty and freedom and -- my family came here to America and my served in the military is the best protector of our faith and actually.
The liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the unity movement for the freedom agenda is actually much more Muslim interest and we've let the Islamist groups that put us -- into one political group like the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't it is not in the interest of Islam and the civil -- is actually within our minds that's total number of Muslims in America what is it.
4000003 to -- -- -- four -- Islamist sites most small -- they'll double that until it's an ending well what's the ethnic background about three to four million is that Pakistan.
Thirty or 40% African American thirty to 40% Indo Pakistani and then the rest of the 20% Arabic.
And done Caucasian and many Americans are just now there's lots of coals for America to do mole in Syria specifically to get rid of the Asad regime.
Let me go to an extreme.
Let's suppose that President Obama ordered the droning about opus I think you get kill -- -- with a drone what would American Muslim -- about that.
I think you'd be surprised that the vast majority now because of the fact that they Syrian example is one of the people by themselves trying to get rid of the -- local.
Of a military oppression that's just been shooting people on the streets massacring them.
It would be looked upon like -- civil looked upon where.
The Bosnian -- celebrate what America did not use unit that the Syrians into Syrian people of -- Syrian -- in America Muslims have -- in dissent they would approve of that I would say ninety over 90% of discerning Americans are now what about the other Muslims that would be 7080% of Muslims in America -- they approve of that.
I hope so I don't know what's been studied yet what I think is I think they've -- Oregon and as an attack by an American president on emotionally -- that's the sad thing because the anti Americanism that they campaigning from and about watching CNN and fox and ABC and there watching LD zero they're watching Syrian TV Egyptian TV so the monster they get is that America -- never up to good.
And that's why we need to change a narrative.
That so many times arm I mean when I served in the navy -- Our ship went to Somalia we you know served in in trying to free these nations of their oppressors.
And I never felt -- military was doing anything negative.
But yet the vast majority of American Muslims I don't think are getting the right picture as far as what our brave soldiers are doing all the things get the Palestinians a nice little picture.
The United Nations the president at a market that's gonna.
It adjusts what a pleasure it is to have you with us here in New York we appreciate you -- think these are -- -- -- -- net.
