There are more than 100,000 Muslim American voters in Michigan, according to Emgage Action, out of an electorate of 2.5 million, and voter turnout among Muslims nationally nearly doubled between 2014 and 2018 in states including Michigan. Hillary Clinton was expected to sweep the Michigan primary in 2016, but Sanders won in a huge upset, thanks in big part to his willingness to denounce Islamophobia and engage with Arab American and Muslim voters.
I've had my interns come up to me and say, my dad's getting deported, what do I do? So, the issues are personal now to us." Of course, that is not the only issue that matters to Muslim voters in Michigan, explained Sheikh Ibrahim Kazerooni of Dearborn's Islamic Center of America.
On Monday, Lama Alzuhd, 31, vice chair of Emgage Action's Michigan chapter, and Nada Al-Hanooti, 28, executive director of Emgage Action in Michigan, were working their magic at a kitchen table inside a rented space in a Dearborn strip mall. The pair was using an app on their laptops to text Muslim voters in Michigan to ask if they are supporting Sanders.
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