Roger that. Unfortunate mixed metaphor.
I was thinking about the Muslims who immigrated here in the 19th century, and that they probably thought differently than today’s Muslim.
In the 19th century the Ottoman Empire still clung to existence in the Near East, and there were no nations such as Iraq or Syria, just historical regions dominated by a few families. Islam existed, but there was no nation with petro dollars financing huge Mosques across the United States as exists today with Saudi Arabia.
Islam controls its adherents through peer pressure. The less Muslims and less well organized the hierarchy of Islam then the easier it is to blend into what ever nation exists locally. Serving in the United States military would not feel uncomfortable.
There exist the ruins of Mosques in our Midwest region. Muslims came to this country in the 19th century to become wheat farmers, so I would not be surprised that they served in our military during the 2oth century. Those days are long past and Saudi Arabia is Hell bent on conquering the world for the fundamentalist version of Islam, as in the medieval 7th century version our ancestors in Europe endured for several centuries and eventually drove out in the 17th century.
Everything has changed but the more things change, the more they stay the same in this case.