“...Don’t engage with them, though. They turn nasty on a dime...”
So do I. Eff ‘em.
This is OUR country.
Engage them, always, everywhere, and like your American ancestors would have done to any invader.
I’m quite a petite woman so I handle Muslims the way I think is appropriate for me. And that’s generally boycott and badmouth and bad-tip them. I’m not gonna get stabbed over some taxi ride.