Muslims are never going to be happy, as they have an endless list of demands. They are trying to takeover the world, and no one should cater to them at all.

I am afraid of Muslims, and, much to my distress at myself, I feel anger when I see a Muslim woman in public, all swathed in black. I want to go up to her and sneer, “if you want to be an American, then get rid of those clothes, which, to me, are intended to insult Christians. This is probably unreasonable, but it is what I feel. I see every Muslim as wanting us to either become Muslims, or die. (Isn’t that what their religion teaches is the thing to do if an invitation to become Muslim is refused?). I hate feeling this way, and have never been bigoted in my life, until nhow. I see Muslims as an extreme danger to America, our liberty, and our way of life. I want to shout in the streets to all Americans “can’t you see what is happening??!!” Not ONE Imam, to my knowledge, has come out publicly and condemned Muslim extremists, and certainly I have not heard one Muslim publicly pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, with liberty and justice for all. They cannot be committed Americans as long as they are Muslims!

To ChristopherL:
All Muslims want is what this country promised since the beginning; freedom of religion. Seeing as how it’s become restricted, especially in regards to THEIR faith, their complaints are valid.
To Emma:
A) Not all Muslim women wear black. They like their colors and seasons as much as you do sometimes.
B) It’s a bit ego-centric to believe that members of a religion of 1.5+ million people wear certain clothes to “piss off” another people. It’s not high school. The women dress to protect themselves from eyes that don’t deserve their beauty. Same reason jewelry stores have their goods in boxes and not for free in the streets.
But if you go that route then, Orthodox Jews wear certain outfits and so do nuns (who cover the same things Muslim women cover…in fact their outfits are very similar) and priests with their robes and the Buddhist monks with their togas and so on. Only the Muslims annoy you though? That is a problem.
C) If you don’t want to become a Muslim, you…just don’t become Muslim. Simple. If you don’t believe that, read up on the history of Andalucia and how the golden age for Jewish literature was under Islamic rule. That could not have been the case if Muslims killed all those who weren’t of the faith. (In fact, read about any Muslim empire. You’ll see other faiths being taken care of as well. It’s what Islam teaches.)
D) The only thing endangering America’s liberty and ways of life are the people who disregard the Constitution and statutes that this nation was BUILT on. Muslims aren’t new to America. In fact, Columbus had 2 help him navigate his way here! What IS new is the terrorism but if we turn on ALL Muslims because of the few, America will no longer be America. And if you want to keep it that way, then don’t let this change.
E) Emma, I’m sorry but I doubt you hang out with a lot of Imams to make such a generalized statement. In fact, I don’t know of ONE Imam who has NOT condemned extremists. But that doesn’t make good T.V. these days so you most likely won’t see this unless you do the digging yourself. Trust me, you will be surprised.

Emma,
I’ve been pledging allegiance to the american flag since I was 6- and I’m a Muslim.
I wear a variety of colors every day, all pastel colors, and my hijab matches my outfit-
today I wore all light pink, yesterday- lilac- yellow the day before—–
As a former press liaison to my mosque, I begged and begged the press to give us an interview after 911-
I called every day for months and months, organized interfaith group meetings and events- and never- ever once- would the press show up.
Happy well adjusted kind Muslims doing goof works in their communities just doesn’t get any air time.

I admire Emma’s honesty and self-recrimination about her attitudes, and I do trust and believe the responses from Anon and VICTORIA.
Here is my take:
1. Historic perspectives about Islam in past centuries are not necessarily applicable to Islam today.
2. Like any other huge and diverse group, Islam today–approximately one fifth of the world’s population–cannot be summed up in a brief descriptive word or phrase, which makes ANY generality (from “peace-loving and tolerant” to “fascist and evil”) automatically false.
3. Speaking only for myself, as one who intellectually realizes that the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists and do not support or sympathize with terrorists, there is sense of frustration and disappointment that the rational people of that faith have not been more effective in muzzling and marginalizing the fanatics among them. I am not talking about any official “head” of the religion speaking out (even if there were such a position, analogous to the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church). I mean the people and the local religious leaders at the community level. Anon’s item E says that imams have condemned extremism. What does that mean? Condemnation of the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and other such acts of insane violence? Yes, I am well aware that the rational voices within Islam have condemned such acts. But I think that is entirely too easy and inadequate. Have they condemned the clerics who preach hatred in the mosques and madrassas? Condemned them by name? The preachers of hatred against Jews, against Israelis, against Hindus, against Europeans, against America? The preachers of hatred here in America as well as in Islamic nations?
It is NOT anti-Islamic prejudice to point out that Islam has become, if not synonymous with then at least associated with, terrorism in many people’s minds. Until there is an ongoing and massive Islamic denunciation not just of terrorist acts but of the clerics and demagogues who preach hatred, it is naive to expect people like Emma to feel any different than the way they do.
Not that it matters, but I have precisely the same criticism of Christianity. The real wars are not between different faiths but between rational people and hate-mongering fanatics within each faith.