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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of f all, they are closer to the Middle East and are a better target of opportunity.

Secondly, your assumptions are wrong.

[b]They have more immigrants, but they are less successful at integrating them.  In the U.S., we expect that the children of Muslim immigrants will be Americans AND Muslim with no contradiction. [/b]I had an argument with a German guy about how immigrants to Germany could never really be German and neither could their children.  And Germany is probably better at integrating them than other countries.

A lot of Muslim immigrants to Europe are poor. A lot of Muslim immigrants to the U.S. are professionals and business owners.  Professionals don't have time for that.
[/quote] This pp nailed it.  [b]This is something that many people don't realize about the United States.  While we still have racism here, our emphasis is on assimilation.  We expect immigrants to be part of our society and to live wherever they want.[/b]  In many European nations, immigrants are expected to remain outside of the mainstream culture, and remain geographically and economically isolated and impoverished in poor suburbs.  This breeds anger and alienation.  This is one of the reasons we've had fewer problems with terrorism.

That's why it's laughable that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump want patrols in Muslim neighborhoods.  Yes, there are some in the United States but most Muslims do not live ghettoized in Muslim neighborhoods.  Are they going to send cops around to knock on the doors of the individual Muslim family living down the block?[/quote]
I'm the PP who you said nailed it.  I am flattered, but I don't think you understood what I said, or perhaps I didn't express it clearly.  It's not that the emphasis in the US is on assimilation; in fact, there is very blessed little of it.  It's that in the U.S., assimilation is [i]possible[/i].  It is possible because to be American, you do not have to look a particular way, worship in a particular way, read certain things, eat certain things etc.  As long as you speak English passably, obey the laws and subscribe to a minimal set of common U.S. values, you have a shot at being American, and "mainstream" America expects nothing else of you.

In Europe, the assimilation standards are not achievable because no matter how well one speaks French, one is not and can never become French unless one is born that way.  The European cultures are much more demanding of potential Europeans, and Europe is only now asking itself what it really means to be European, because just one generation ago the answer to this question was plain, obvious and cast in stone - you have to be French, Italian etc.

This is why Americans just fundamentally don't understand the position of Muslims in Europe - because they cannot relate to native Europeans whose national identity is hung on the ethnic peg, and because they cannot understand the anguish of immigrants who are asked to do the impossible in order to assimilate. 
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