Muslims? No Problem!

Der Spiegel, the German equivalent of Time and Newsweek, has a story about how well Muslims are doing in the U.S., immigrants included. I recommend it because it sends a different message than you get from some people in this country. The Germans have a less happy perspective to judge from, given their history with Turkish immigrants. The writer is clearly impressed by the absence of Muslim ghettos in the U.S., and that is something the country can be proud of. But the portrait seems a little too rosy in light of recent polls that show growing support among young American Muslims for suicide bombing under certain circumstances. In turn, we should perhaps be no more alarmed by that than a survey showing that Irish Americans thought bombings were okay in certain places, e.g. Ulster. The difference, of course, is that under some circumstances Muslims might be bombing us.