On the whole, Muslims in the US seem to be much better integrated than they are in many European countries. The reasons are debatable, and may not be appropriate to discuss here, but I think it makes it difficult for many of the US posters to relate to the issues we in Europe battle with daily.
Anyway, regardless of the (anecdotal) experience of European posters here, there are countless polls that indicate that Muslims in Europe not only do not integrate well, but that they also hold views that are anti west, anti democracy, pro Islamist, and even pro terrorism - with a tendency to not report to the authorities terrorist plots that they know of.
There is a reason The UK was once labelled an exporter of Islamic terrorism, for example. Anyway, IMHO, there really seems little point in a European discussing issues related to Islam in Europe on this board. That's not to say there aren't Americans who understand these issues, there are, it's just clear that the vast majority do not understand and have no direct experience, and therefore have a penchant for assuming racism, bigotry etc are the impetus for the discussions in the first place.
In my time here, I've realised to discuss this issue as it pertains to Europe is basically an exercise in futility, even here in the CDZ, because there are too many posters who cannot get beyond their own assumptions even though they have little or no experience of how these issues express themselves in Europe first hand. So, great OP, hopeless venue, IMHO.
Of course you're absolutely correct, the Americans cannot understand, because they've not experienced it first hand, nor have they witnessed the sort of scenes we've had to witness.
For instance, they haven't experienced the so-called "Migrant Crisis", hundreds of thousands of Muslims, mainly young men of military age, shouting and being aggressive charging across our borders in chaotic and angry fashion DEMANDING to stay in Europa OR ELSE and DEMANDING to give them free stuff.
I think if Americans would have experienced and witnessed the outrageous scenes that our Continent has had to witness, then many Americans perhaps would at least pause for thought.
We somehow managed to absorb over a million Cuban refugees during the period between 1973 and 1980. During about a six month period in 1980, around 125,000 Cuban refugees reached the Florida coast, primarily between Miami and the Keys, on rafts and boats. Somehow, we managed to resettle them and assimilate them, and those Cuban refugees have become some of the most patriotic Americans.
From 1975-1980, we also took in around 763,000 refugees from Southeast Asia (about half of the total refugees from this region). Somehow, we managed to assimilate those folks, as well.
In the past 20 years, we've accepted around 1.6 million refugees from around the world, from places like Somalia, Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. We've managed to resettle and assimilate those folks, too.
In addition to those refugees, The U.S. currently has 11.1 million illegal immigrants residing on our soil, the overwhelming majority of whom are from third world countries who cannot speak our language, and there have been many protests by these illegal immigrants who want U.S. rights.
Here's a May Day immigration march in Los Angeles by Latinos:
For comparison's sake, there were
over 100,000 people at this protest in 2006.
In other words, we had more Mexican nationals protesting
on a single day than you have been invaded by during in this "crisis."
But you are correct, we know nothing about trying to assimilate people who don't speak our language, have a different culture, and demand rights.
Europeans are so delightfully amusing.
Maybe the issue with Europe assimilating immigrants has more to do with Europeans than it does the immigrants. America is more diverse, and has a longer history of tolerating diversity than most European countries do. We are a nation of immigrants.
