If in two hundred plus years, despite major efforts, a significant conservative Christian majority has NOT managed to establish a state religion, I highly doubt a tiny conservative Muslim minority will be able to do it either.
Exactly. The attitude toward Muslims of many people in America today is based on hysteria and lack of clear thinking or a clear vision of reality. It's also based on bigotry. Over the course of American history, other ethnic groups have been, eventually, absorbed into American society, but not always easily and not over a short period of time (with, btw, these people continuing to practice their religion, dress to some extent in their own cultural clothing, eat their food and maintain other aspects of their culture: various so-called China Towns around America come to mind), and, of course, the difficulty for Muslims in America, or anywhere, of blending into a new country is the fear and hysteria created by Muslim fundamentalists, extremists and terrorists, who don't, in fact, represent the majority of Muslims world wide.
I remember a couple of decades a go, a young woman from Asia telling me she wanted to attend a certain university in San Francisco, but she was afraid if she moved there, she would get AIDS. It is that kind of thinking that colors the thinking of so many Americans towards Muslims. Hysteria. The inability to see the bigger picture. Lack of knowledge.
