NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has cited several statistics from a “highly respected” group to justify his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country.
They include the assertion that 25 percent of American Muslims believe violence in the United States is justified as a part of global jihad.
But that figure and others come from a problematic June poll commissioned by a think tank that has long theorized that Muslims are trying to infiltrate the United States.
The poll was conducted online and it’s unclear how respondents were selected to participate. Many online surveys do not start with a random sample of the U.S. population, and as such their results may not be representative of the population as a whole.
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