So what do you want the American Muslims, immigrants and natural born alike, to do?
We have, conservatively, 5 million actual Muslims from the ME or 2nd/3rd generation that are US citizens.
Go back to one of the scores of countries where Islam is the dominant religion. And take their more-likely-than daddy-to-be-jihadi chilluns with them. Or be forced to assimilate and give up most of their culture, save harmless trappings, as the Germans were forced to do during WWI. And as ought to have happened in a more vigorous manner to the Irish, Italians, Jews, and others who came after WWI. American of Irish dropping cash in the NORAID can or Americans of Jewish descent giving to AZM is analogous to Americans of German descent giving to the German-American Bund. All three are expressing the same sentiment. Ditto for Mexicans sending cash south.
Should they just let us shut down their mosques? Maybe round 'em up like we did with the Japs? Make them wear the star and crescent on their chest and put it in their home windows?
Maybe every town should have a goat *expletive deleted*er registry.
Islam is similar to communism in that it is a total soup-to-nuts philosophy that is antithetical to western values and civilization in general and to the COTUS in particular. IOW, adherence to orthodox islam is treason. We should no more tolerate ostentatious display of islam than we did of communism when we were in an existential struggle with it.
Why should moderate Muslims even stand up against the screaming beards when the US government has rolled over and showed its belly here stateside?
Again, the train is fine.
Gov't may bloat day by day, but it is less relevant day by day. Unless gov't comes to terms with the new realities(1) in the world, it will collapse of a massive coronary and will crush a multitude as it goes down.
Orthodox Islam and orthodox muslims have little to fear from us.gov, but much to fear from Americans if Americans get their ire up. In their hearts, many in the establishment understand this, which is why we continually have a massive "frontlash" whenever some "urban youth" commits a heinous crime that the MSM is unable to smother and the same whenever some orthodox muslim decides to follow the dictates of orthodox islam and murder a baker's dozen or more of solid citizens in the name of aloha snackbar.
(1) Economic, political, religious, ethnic, etc.
Scout and roo_ster, I'll add one thing. Looks like this deal in California might be tied to ISIS or which ever group of terrorist slime it is. Wanna shoot those guys? Find them, and I'll load mags for you until your trigger fingers wear out.
When all is said and done, I don't particularly care about orthodox muslims. I am perfectly content to let them live in whatever state of depravity they desire, as long as they do it in their own country. The problems arise when orthodox muslims and folk from the West(2) mix.
(2) Or OMs and Hindus, or OM and Phillipinos, or OM and non-OM Africans, or...
