Republican Muslim Coalition

The Republican Muslim Coalition (RMC), is an American Muslim political advocacy group established in 2012. RMC works to build ties between the American Muslim community and the Republican Party in the United States and elevate American Muslim voices in American Politics. The founder and president of RMC is lawyer Saba Ahmed.

The founder and president of RMC, Saba Ahmed, left the Democratic Party in 2011. She has stated that she started the Republican Muslim Coalition in 2012 after finding that many of her views, such as her stance against abortion rights and her support for low taxes, were consistent with the "traditional" Republican platforms. At the same time, she has acknowledged the challenge of Islamophobia within the Republican Party.

In 2015, the RMC called for tougher action against the Islamic State following the November 2015 Paris attacks, insisting that the group did not represent Islam. Following President Donald Trump's proposal for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States, Ahmed challenged Trump to attend an Islamic prayer service at a mosque.

In 2016, Ahmed urged Muslim Americans to vote Republican. In 2017, she said she was "deeply hurt by Donald Trump's ignorant views of Islam."

Six days after the September 11 attacks, President Bush made a public appearance at Washington, D.C.'s largest Islamic Center where he acknowledged the "incredibly valuable contribution" of American Muslims and called for them "to be treated with respect". Numerous incidents of harassment and hate crimes against Muslims and South Asians were reported in the days following the attacks. On national television, Bush quoted from the Qur'an and worked to assure Americans that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful.

During the 2024 United States presidential election, Donald Trump reached out to Muslim and Arab-American communities in Michigan as part of his bid for re-election as president of the United States. A major motive for Michigan's Muslim leaders to endorse Trump was his commitment to bring peace to the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian territories of West Bank and East Jerusalem.

In the 2000 Presidential election, 78 percent of Muslim Americans supported Republican candidate George W. Bush over Democratic candidate Al Gore. However, due to the wars that took place in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and due to what has been perceived as increased anti-Muslim rhetoric from the Republican Party after the September 11 attacks, support for the Republican Party among American Muslims has declined sharply.

By 2004, Bush's Muslim support had been reduced to under 1%, and Democratic candidate John Kerry's support rose to 93%, with 5% voting for Ralph Nader.