The prospect of a Donald Trump presidency may frighten plenty of Muslim voters, the group told Mitha, but Hillary Clinton isn’t particularly popular either. In the Democratic primary, many Muslim voters backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.). Clinton was too hawkish for them — and may still be even if she earns their votes.
And then there are voters like Oz Sultan, a counterterrorism analyst and commentator in New York who calls himself “a lifelong conservative.”
“I don’t think Hillary Clinton has the ability to keep our country safe,” he said Wednesday from his Harlem home, after watching Trump’s national security speech. Sultan’s biggest concern is the Islamic state, and Clinton “has gone on a destabiliziing spree,” he said, noting the Obama administration’s military offensive in Libya.
Registered American Muslim voters are a starkly diverse and growing constituency, and Mitha, 34, who was named Clinton’s Muslim outreach director last month, is trying to woo them all.
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