"they are a significant voting block "
they WOULD be a significant voting block if they had
someone they really felt represented their "interests", like Keith Ellison, but I don't think many of the unaffiliated people like this taxi driver have yet been roused to vote.
The frightening scenario will be the appearance of more Keith Ellisons to represent these people, and our inabililty to do anything about it. It seems to be a game our OWN "mainstream" politicians are playing with us, with a wink and a nod to the Muslim "community" and their "spokesmen", in or out of legitimate government.
There is some very devious and harmful game being played, maybe only by default, but the net effects will be the same: a cacophony of voices entering every political debate, new terms of discourse being defined, our own brains being washed this time from another angle, all of which portend the growing influence of Islam in this culture.
"There----I've said it again".