A Monmouth University poll taken last month found that 17 percent of registered voters support banning all Muslims from entering the country, while 74 percent oppose the idea. (Support for the idea has fallen significantly since Trump first proposed it, and Trump himself has modified his plan.) In 2015, hate crimes against Muslims were at their highest level since the period just after 9/11.
As a result, according to one poll taken in January of 2016, Muslim support for Clinton is higher than among any other religious group measured. The poll, taken by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a Muslim-American research group, showed that 40 percent of Muslims supported Clinton, compared to 30 percent of Jews and 13 percent of Catholics and Protestants. Only 4 percent of Muslims said they supported Trump.
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