yes, because they are here successfully integrated every fucking day. focusing on outliers does not disprove this. it just highlights how rare it is.
If it is one thing Seiger you have managed to do, is at least force me to acknowledge that I have not ever really met any of the muslims of my own City. We have a few thousand in the totality of the surrounding county, so they are a very small minority. Given that, I am willing to acknowledge that you may indeed be correct in that many are integrated.
Looking at it, in recent history, many of the Muslim attacks, but not all were done by 2nd and 3rd generation muslims. I find that a far more interesting factoid, a question I would love to understand. It seems that most 1st generation muslims, outside a few notables here(San Bernardino), seem to be ok.
So sure they have mostly integrated, and I can only base that on the fact that my own city has not been Snackbarred yet. But I can not help but look at their native countries, and note how oppressive they are.. Gays are still stoned in the ME, and even in the countries were they are not illegal, they still face violence from the populace. Rape victims are still convicted and murdered. I still see many, if not most of those countries with repressive laws most of which are likely bastardizations of their holy texts. (One of the Islamic websites said that countries that stone rape victims are lacking in compassion)
I see areas of the ME full of wealth and prosperity, and then just outside the city walls, you have such overwhelming poverty.
I wonder Seiger, if you realize how much people like my family and I actually wish to visit the ME for the history. So much history, but it is not safe to go there. I will not take my wife and daughter someplace that fundamentally disrespects them, and forces them to wear their religious garb. Were they can be attacked and raped at the slightest whim, and even if I am there, what the hell will I be able to do against a crowd if Muslim rapists? Not a damn thing. At least here in my state, I know were not to go, were to go, and it generally works.. South side of my city literally has 3x the murder and violent crime rate as the north side, and what's fucked up is its not a black only zone but pretty mixed.. So prudence says I don't ever go downtown, and if I do, I carry my m15-3 with Safariland loaders.(They are really good, don't have to twist a knob to drop the cartridges).
But it is far easier to avoid the downtown and southside, despite my mayor spending millions of tax dollars renovating down town into some kind of attraction.. Clubs, restaurants, a new baseball stadium, high price condo's. Yet why in gods name would I go someplace that is 3x as violent as the Northside?(which has everything I want, other then a ball diamond.)
I really do not have any such ability to discern where and whom is safe with places in the ME. Same goes for the people.. We get story after story of people who lived there for years peacefully just going snackbar and killing people in the name of Allah. If one can not tell the terrorists from the good guys, how am I going to develop any form of trust for them as a people?
It's because I don't trust them, and can't easily tell friend or foe at a glance that I distrust them all, even fear them. At least with white racists, like the Aryan Nation, it is easy to spot them.