LOL! That’s funny!
Years ago, before the first inkling that moslems hated us, we were VERY tolerant about their culture. We incorporated Hummous and tabouli into out menus, learned traditional dances, dressed in exotic scarves, and generally liked everything eclectic and eastern in our fashions and decor. Even our pop music incorporated Middle Eastern Rhythms (Paint it Black, Time of the Season, even the ending of The WHO’s Baba O’Reilly, etc). Nobody despised or oppressed anybody.
Now I can’t even stand the sight of a veiled woman in a Walmart.
A number of my friends visited Egypt and had a great time. I remember one lady who sold Egyptian items to dancers in the U.S. She said they’d gone to Egypt right after one of the terrorist attacks on tourists: the U.S. embassy gave them a personal armed escort, and the merchants were so excited to see them that they were treated like royalty.
It’s terrible the way things have changed. I used to think, “Okay, do your thing!” when I saw people in Islamic dress. Now, I think, “What the F is *wrong* with you?!?”
Recently, I met a couple in the produce section of Walmart who said they were Christian Iraqi refugees from Mosul. That was very profound. The man said, “Islam has no culture: only blood.”