outside a Texan mosque

Wow Rosebud and Britishclusterfuck, way to be judgemental much? "Allahu Akbar", Arabic for "good is great", is also how some Arabs thank God for something good i.e. understanding neighbors. So maybe you could both pull the stock outta your ass and not hate on something you fully don't understand, haters.

Guest, the other guest was clearly saying it to be annoying you dumb fuck. Rosebud didnt even say anything negative, just a fact

Allahu Akbar is Arabic for “good is great”? my apologies, didn’t know that the arabic language uses adjectives to describe adjectives. jokes aside, literally all i said was the translation for Allahu akbar into english, and that i don’t know what the guest meant. i’m sorry, how many people who speak Arabic just shout “ALLAHU AKBAR!” in rgular conversation? And how often, on the Internet, do people say Allahu Akbar in all caps on a post welcoming Muslims with the intention of being polite? Not very often at all.

To be fair, you can say much the same thing of Christianity, Buddhism, or Confucianism. There is no single destructive religion.

Islam is now what Christianity was
hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Hundreds of thousands? It started just 2000 years ago buddy

Read my comment a bit more closely

Wow okay I'm sorry I was getting all triggered and then I realized it said "or" omfg I'm dumb lol

@ghengistron ghow many muslims have you had a lengthier conversation with?

Maybe, if people like you comprise it, then that's a culture well worth destroying.

(Third who are you talking to)

Tron. Sorry for not clarifying.

While I'm more than willing to admit that there are plenty of Muslims that want to coexist, I'm not sure that it's a majority. I'm worried that the majority of Muslims DON'T want to assimilate. I mean, they self-segregate. Bunching up into their own self styled little ghettos, where there is no chance of assimilation. The ultimate goal of any American should be assimilation, at least when it comes to your values. Otherwise, how can you call yourself an American? Diversity is not our strength, our strength is unity, but we, as Americans, shouldn't have to change our culture and our laws for others, they should be the ones changing, why else would they be here? I'll tell you why. The only other reason would be to destroy and replace our culture, and I don't appreciate that.

American expats abroad clump up into little communities where they can live according to American ways of life. It's not about wanting to subvert the local culture, it's about desperately wanting a little island of home, of people who relate to your experiences. Just because you've transplanted your life doesn't mean you suddenly don't miss Mom's meatloaf - or, in their case, Mom's kibbeh.

Well they should. Why go to another country and not immerse yourself in the culture? I'm not saying give up mom's meatloaf/kibbeh, but on a fundamental level, you should adopt the culture of your new home. When in Rome, ya know?

The process of integration is nothing that happens over night. Immigrants have always tried to sum up with their kind, see city districts as 'little Italy', 'Chinatown' and so on.
Real integration starts with the second generation, which is going to be born and educated in the new country and in the best case it is completed with the third generation.
This is a proven global phenomenon through all centuries of history, so chill, it's all gonna be alright.

Not if the first generation doesn't let the second and third assimilate.

as someone who grew up in a very diverse suburb, 99% of the 2nd generation muslims I encountered in HS/College were/are chill. The dudes either just want to play sports or make jokes, and the women want to joke and bone... the same as every other group I encountered. There was this one asshole though... he was a nutjob and seriously seemed like a threat with some of his rants.
I only met the parents of a few of them, but they didn't act much differently than other parents either. Probably closest to Korean or Vietnamese parents.