Rejecting Assimilation

This depressing article via Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

A new generation of American Muslims -- living in the shadow of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- is becoming more religious. They are more likely to take comfort in their own communities, and less likely to embrace the nation's fabled melting pot of shared values and common culture.

Ismahan says it quite clearly:

In elementary school, she had tried to fit in. As an adult, though, "I know I don't have to fit in," she said. "I don't think Muslims have to assimilate. We are not treated like Americans. At work, I get up from my desk and go to pray. I thought I would face opposition from my boss. Even before I realized he didn't mind, I thought, 'I have a right to be a Muslim, and I don't have to assimilate.' "

What a rotten mindset.

Comments

[E.]

"We are not treated like Americans. At work, I get up from my desk and go to pray. I thought I would face opposition from my boss. Even before I realized he didn't mind, I thought, 'I have a right to be a Muslim, and I don't have to assimilate.' "

Uh excuse me? You are being treated EXACTLY like an American. What a poor little martyr ...

[The Jut]

A rotten mindset, indeed. It seems to be common in many muslim communities, to simply decide to feel left out, no matter how much the facts oppose that assumption. I suppose this is what they mean by 'not diluting their presence'. And they say it's only Europe that has integration problems! Maybe it would be easier if more muslims would just be willing to dilute their presence a little bit.