The Muslims who voted for Trump

Over one-third of American Muslim voters backed the man who wanted to ban Muslims from entering the country.

Like most of you, I treated Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign as a joke and a publicity stunt when he descended the golden elevator in 2015. It’s only when he first proposed his Muslim ban that I realized just how dangerous he really was. I remember calling him a fascist on my (now-deleted) Twitter account and saying everyone’s top priority should be stopping him from gaining power.

We know how that turned out. And after he was sworn into office, one of his very first acts was an Executive Order banning Syrian refugees and citizens of several majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States.

And yet…when the opportunity to vote him out of office finally arose, a surprising number of American Muslims actually chose to give him four more years in office:

A survey conducted by the Associated Press revealed that while the majority of Muslims interviewed voted for the president-elect, 35% said they voted for Trump. That percentage was higher than the results from an exit poll c…