by Douglas Carswell, Courage Media
Part I: Unless something changes, it is only a matter of time before America starts to experience what Europe, several decades further down the road, is starting to go through
About three and a half million Muslims live in the United States, making up slightly more than 1% of the population. Most are peaceful, law-abiding citizens. Many first-generation Muslim immigrants embody the American Dream, with 46% of those over 25 holding college degrees (compared to 38% of the general population) and 8% owning businesses.
At first glance, American Muslims seem to be assimilating well. Successive waves of immigrants to America have been integrated over the years. Why should Muslim immigrants be any different?
America has long been a melting pot, but as Europe is learning in the wake of large-scale Muslim immigration, some parts of the melting pot will not melt unless there’s a degree of cultural compatibility.
As the number of Muslims living in Britain and Europe has grown rapidly, Muslim communities have not just failed to integrate, they have grown determinedly separate. Instead of cultural convergence, Europe shows us what Muslim cultural divergence looks like. America may be only a few decades behind from something similar.