According to the Wall Street Journal, here are statistics about Arabs and Muslims in America (taken seperately since most Arabs in America are not Muslims and most Muslims not Arab):
ARABS:
1). 24% Muslim.
2). The rest almost invariably Christian.
3). Median household income: $52,000 (one of the highest)
4). Intermarriage rate (i.e., with non-Arab Americans): an astonishing 75%, far higher than most other groups.
MUSLIMS:
1). About 26% Arabs.
2). About 33% South Asian, 20% black Americans.
3). Contrary to popular belief, vast majority legally in the US.
4). intermarriage rate with non-Muslims: 21% (i.e., the same as the American general one of 22% who marry others of a different fate).
5). 64% foreign born--i.e., one can expect intermarriage rate to increase with time.
6). Four out of five earning more than $25,000 a year, one in three, more than $75,000.
7). They "typical" American Muslim head-of-household is a professional worker who owns stocks.
8). 82% registered to vote.
9). 65% favor lowering the income tax.
10). "Typical" regular mosque-goer is a 34-year-old married professional.
In sum, both Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans are behaving in the same way all other immigrant groups behave: they work hard, make money, intermarry with non-Arabs and non-Muslims Americans, and participate fully in civic issues such as voting, etc.
Could there be an American-raised bin Laden? Yes, of course--it only takes one nut. And there are some Muslim "ghettoes" and Saudi-funded "Hate Mosques". But they are atypical of Muslims and Arabs in America as a whole.
If this data is accurate, America does not have a "Muslims problem" any more than it has, say, an "Irish problem" with Irish-Americans becoming potential IRA fighters.
Strange, isn't it, how this is happeneing in the country the bien pensants are convinced is horribly "Islamophobic", "Arabphobic", "racist", etc., etc., etc.--which supposedly leads to "alienation" by Muslims and Arabs--while the ghettoes of alienated Muslim thugs and radicals are growing like mushrooms in the "understanding", "multicultural", "non-racist" Europe?
ARABS:
1). 24% Muslim.
2). The rest almost invariably Christian.
3). Median household income: $52,000 (one of the highest)
4). Intermarriage rate (i.e., with non-Arab Americans): an astonishing 75%, far higher than most other groups.
MUSLIMS:
1). About 26% Arabs.
2). About 33% South Asian, 20% black Americans.
3). Contrary to popular belief, vast majority legally in the US.
4). intermarriage rate with non-Muslims: 21% (i.e., the same as the American general one of 22% who marry others of a different fate).
5). 64% foreign born--i.e., one can expect intermarriage rate to increase with time.
6). Four out of five earning more than $25,000 a year, one in three, more than $75,000.
7). They "typical" American Muslim head-of-household is a professional worker who owns stocks.
8). 82% registered to vote.
9). 65% favor lowering the income tax.
10). "Typical" regular mosque-goer is a 34-year-old married professional.
In sum, both Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans are behaving in the same way all other immigrant groups behave: they work hard, make money, intermarry with non-Arabs and non-Muslims Americans, and participate fully in civic issues such as voting, etc.
Could there be an American-raised bin Laden? Yes, of course--it only takes one nut. And there are some Muslim "ghettoes" and Saudi-funded "Hate Mosques". But they are atypical of Muslims and Arabs in America as a whole.
If this data is accurate, America does not have a "Muslims problem" any more than it has, say, an "Irish problem" with Irish-Americans becoming potential IRA fighters.
Strange, isn't it, how this is happeneing in the country the bien pensants are convinced is horribly "Islamophobic", "Arabphobic", "racist", etc., etc., etc.--which supposedly leads to "alienation" by Muslims and Arabs--while the ghettoes of alienated Muslim thugs and radicals are growing like mushrooms in the "understanding", "multicultural", "non-racist" Europe?
