antron wrote:The Muslims I know just encouraged me to study, and take a career making internship. They are grateful to be part of the USA and make important contributions, like Captain Khan did.
Okay, I'm about to blow your mind with a revelation the likes of which your brain will struggle to cope with. This is highly complex, so try to follow my reasoning here.
Ready? There's no turning back once you hear this.
Seriously. Your world will never be the same.
Ready?
Okay.
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There exist muslims other than the ones you've met.
Holy shit. Did I just annihilate your soul with that revelation or what?
Okay but no that isn't my whole point.
You've met muslims who've no doubt been in the West for quite a while. Probably more than a generation. You could say they've assimilated and integrated. And that's totally cool. We want that. We want as many muslims as possible not to be mass-murdering baby-rapers. I will hug as many non-murdering muslims as possible.
Now in America we're largely shielded from un-assimilated Islam, what with an entire ocean separating us and the core of the Islamic world. But what we see in Europe with their policies of mass immigration is a method that doesn't encourage integration or assimilation. It's a straight drag-and-drop of one population onto another population, and then for some reason expecting there not to be a clash.
You've met assimilated muslims. You have not met un-assimilated muslims. They're quite a different bag of chips, raised in a very different culture which, to put it diplomatically, would probably differ from your current experiences with muslims.