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It used to be taken for granted that immigrants to the United States would assimilate, adopt American cultural values, and become Americans. That idea, of course, was lost long ago as the lust for “diversity” and “multiculturalism” overtook the political and media elites, but up until Old Joe Biden opened the floodgates to any sentient being that could be relied upon to vote Democrat, most Americans took for granted the idea that people who settled in this country should obey the existing laws.
No more, however. On Wednesday, Shadi Hamid, a Washington Post columnist and professor at Georgetown University, wrote in the WaPo that expecting Muslims to adopt American values was just another manifestation of that “Islamophobia” that everyone is so desperate to avoid. Hamid argued not only that Muslims should not be expected to assimilate into American society, but that efforts to ban Sharia were as futile as they were “bigoted,” for Muslims simply weren’t going to give up Sharia, and that was that. In the midst of all Hamid’s bravado, however, he was extremely disingenuous about the nature of Sharia itself.
As he is a cosseted member of the leftist establishment, Hamid knows that he is expected to play the victim, and he strikes the pose with gusto. Hamid’s America, where he enjoys so very much privilege, is positively teeming with “Islamophobes”: “the Sharia-Free America Caucus has swelled to 60 House members. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) recently said, ‘I’m ready to get rid of the Muslims.’”
In Hamid’s view, this sort of thing is particularly outrageous, because there is all sorts of evidence, he says, that Muslims are as American as the MAGA Republicans he hates with such intensity: “The instinct, when faced with this, is to marshal the evidence. Over the past decade, surveys have shown that American Muslims are patriotic, civically engaged and more likely than the U.S. general public to say that political violence is never justified…. On the questions where Muslim Americans remain religiously conservative — sexuality, gender identity and family structure — their views don’t diverge much from the Republican base. They haven’t assimilated as much as liberals might like. You’d think Republicans would sense an electoral opportunity.”
Yet Muslims in America, Hamid maintains, shouldn’t be expected to become like other Americans. “The assimilation defense — look how well we’ve integrated — is satisfying to make. But it concedes a premise I no longer accept: that a minority community’s right to be in the United States depends on its willingness to converge with the cultural mainstream. It shouldn’t depend on that. It shouldn’t depend on anything.”
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Ugly 312 says
If they cant or dont want to assimilate they should swiftly be shown the door. Better still I think is that they not be allowed in.
PRCS USN (ret) says
The very unlikely future versus current reality: the 2 billion+ who are already here.
Out of curiosity, yesterday, I queried the internet and learned there are are 18 American Muslim astronauts.and 42 America Muslims were elected to various offices last year.
OLD GUY says
Yes, the migration invasion of America is running down the tracks with lots of cash pushing it. Islam will never assimilate to any other culture or laws other than sharia.
Troybeam says
Islam, segregates, demands exclusion from American law because Islam has it’s own law called sharia which includes all that do not submit to be killed.
On the other hand America has the Constitution which states “NO foreign governments” to operate because a nation cannot have 2 legal systems working inside the same nation”
Islam is simply invading political offices and others under the guise of being “American Muslims” a farce in order to conquer the nation in what I chose to call ” A Violent Silent Conquest” replace all elected offices and such with Muslims, much like what the UK has been doing.
How is that working for the UK and its actual citizens?
Edmund Carey says
“Surveys have shown” has to be about the most disingenuous claim in contemporary public discourse, which is presumably why it is trotted out so frequently. As if it wasn’t bad enough that there is no telling whether polls and surveys should be trusted in the first place, identifying the “surveys” cited appears to be anathema with the chattering classes. This is our version of deriving authority from transcendent sanctions unapproachable by anyone outside of the reigning priesthood. It’s modern Druidism, and about that believable.
somehistory says
One way they want to not *fit in* is by way of special loans for houses. They don’t want to pay interest on loans. Interest is the way the bank or finance company makes their money
“3 million Muslim Americans struggle to find mortgages that don’t violate their faith
With only 25-45 Islamic financial institutions serving over 3 million Muslim Americans, finding a mortgage that aligns with Islamic law’s prohibition on interest remains a difficult search. ”
Why should muzzies get special treatment? Everyone else has to pay interest….on personal loans, car loans, mortgages, business loans..”
Fewer than 50 companies….run by muzzies….give interest free loans in the U.S. Evidently, they want either more of those or they want infidel businesses to give them interest free loans.
If they don’t like the rules, they can go to some muzzie run place and buy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/3-million-muslim-americans-struggle-to-find-mortgages-that-don-t-violate-their-faith/vi-AA20zF8g?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69dab1b723a847efaa5b38f8b4c36720&cvpid=6504d1d754c14ba9894365485578f4e2&ei=53
Alkflaeda says
It’s sheer legalism – they pay chunky fees instead, but they can still say that they are obeying sharia.
gravenimage says
I would not cre that much, save that “Sharia finance” is just more imposition of Islamic law.
A says
I keep reading that American Muslims supposedly assimilate better than European Muslims but I don’t see evidence of this.
gravenimage says
It’s not true–there are just fewer of them, so things are even more far gone in places like Europe.
Alkflaeda says
Nations should perhaps take their cue from Muhammad, who said on his deathbed that “There cannot be two religions in Aeabia” (and NB if anyone tells you that the early tolerant suras in the Qur’an have not been abrogated, this statement was the basis on which Caliph Umar expelled peaceful, productive Jewish share-croppers). Islam is the cuckoo in the Judeo-Christian nest – as soon as it is big enough it throws out the other fledgelings.
gravenimage says
WaPo Columnist Says Muslims Should Not Be Expected to Assimilate, and What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Insanity–but orthodox Islam.
multiculturalism” overtook the political and media elites, but up until Old Joe Biden opened the floodgates to any sentient being that could be relied upon to vote Democrat, most Americans took for granted the idea that people who settled in this country should obey the existing laws.
Note that Shadi Hamid has demanded that the Muslim Brotherhood not be considered a terrorist group. He has also said that “Islamist” parties are not about violence, but about Islamic salvation. He has condemned the West for championing democracy, saying leads to a “clash of civilizations”. Ugly stuff–but very Islamic.