Geneive Abdo, writing in the Washington Post, tells us that the comforting media stereotype of Muslims in America being completely different from their Muslim brethren in Europe in terms of assimilation, is not really valid. I found few signs of London—style radicalism among Muslims in the United States. At the same time, the real story of American Muslims is one of accelerating alienation from the mainstream of U.S. life, with Muslims in this country choosing their Islamic identity over their American one. A new generation of American Muslims —— living in the shadow of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks —— is becoming more religious. They are more likely to take comfort in their own communities, and less likely to embrace the nation's fabled melting pot of shared values and common culture. Part of this is linked to the resurgence of Islam over the past several decades, a growth as visible in Western Europe and the United States as it is in Egypt and Morocco....(Read Full Post)