I admit I got tired of reading through 5 pages of flame wars, but I have a few points to make about this debate from what I have read. First let me say that as an American I have no problem with multiculturalism. I have had a Russain and Mexican girlfriend in the past and I am white. I also have a good friend who is Arab. However, when a cultural group moves into another country that has a radically different culture, it is unreasonable for the immigrants to expect the host culture to conform to their ways of doing things. Historically that is what has happened everywhere Muslims have settled.

Even though I have had a Mexican and Russian girlfriend, I will likely never have a Muslim girlfirend because I would have to convert to Islam first, which I am not about to to, ever. However, this is one example of making the host culture conform to their culture, if you want to marry one of them, you have to become one of them. So either they never integrate, or, more likely, the host culture eventually "integrates" into the Muslim culture through intermarriage because the immigrant culture refuses to allow this to happen otherwise, so who is the racist here really?

Actually, the Muslims are not being racist because Islam is not a race, it is a Religion. IMHO religions are like ideologies and have nothing to do with your genetics, so if someone is being critical or even hates Islam they are not being racist at all. It is no different than hating any other ideology whether it be Communism or Fascism or Fundamentalist Christianity.

As I mentioned I have a good friend who is Arab, but you would hardly even notice he is Arab at all. As much as I am disqusted with the radicalism in Islam, when I hang out with him I forget that he is even Arab. This is because his family is Christian and his parents are Lebanese immigrants. He is just as American as anyone else, he was born here, he is partiotic about being an American and even served in the Army. No problems there, just problems with radical anti-Western ideology.