Arab-Americans raise money for Bush re-election campaign
Wealthy Arab-American supporters of the US invasion of Iraq are financially backing US President Bush’s re-election campaign.
Elite members Arab and Muslim communities are raising $100, 000or
more for the Republican leader at a time when polls suggest that Bush’s
support from these communities in plummeting, said New York Times.
The newspaper named Iranian-born resident of Florida Mori Hosseini
as on of Bush’s top fundraisers. The chief executive of ICI Homes has
raised $200, 000for the Bush campaign, saying he was inspired by the
President’s “decisive” action in Iraq. "He's the savior, if not of
Iraq, but also of the other countries around Iraq. They want freedom. I
am so sure of this because I am from that part of the world," explained
Hosseini.
Muslim supporters like Hosseini show a trend contradictory to what
some polls reveal as a drop in Bush's popularity among Arab and Muslim
Americans. According to a January poll conducted by Zogby
International, Bush's approval rating among Arab-Americans had fallen
to 38 percent from as high as 83 percent in October2001 . The drop was
attributed to concern over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Approximately least3 . 5million Americans are of Arab descent,
according to figures from the Arab American Institute. The ethnic
grouping constitutes an community made up of several waves of
immigrants from 22 Arab countries. — (menareport.com)