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Congrats on citizenship..well stated..One down, One hundred million more to go...

Let me ask you a question, and I'm in no way trying to embarrass you..are you assimilating, to use that long ignored word..What many here don't understand about Arabs/Muslims in the US, when we venture in Arab neighborhoods, is the seeming unwillingness to "americanize" for want of a better word? and this is where the radicals congregate..is this an unfair characterisation?...

I'm not sure about the Arab neighborhoods.

I'm Iranian we're not Arabs - we're mostly Persians, but i think that arabs newer generations will eventually americanize. I think alot of Iranians have.

The Iranians arre NOT arabs. In the ME they are more like Americans in their attitudes than are any of the arab groups. Modernization is simply not a fearsome thing to them.

Not all Christian or Jewish communities assimilate in America (and this can be true of families that have been here for generations). Think Orthedox or Amish. They do it for religious reasons as well.

The question may be raised at times though if you are going to immigrate to the US, why come here if not to actually become a part of American society (assimilate)?

(that was a rhetorical question, I don't want a response/lengthy discussion).

I will also say that while I use the term "IslamoNazis" now (in response to the brutallity of radical Muslims) I do not see all muslims as IslamoNazis/Islamofascists. IslamoNazis think that they are followers of Islam. They can also be found in many different nations.

I would like to see a reformation movement within Islam to eridicate Islamofascism. Muslims may be less resistant to change if they realize that fellow muslims also oppose the excesses of radical muslims.

I think that with this change needs to come true religious freedom in muslim nations (freedom to openly practice other faiths whether they be Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddist, wiccan, etc. and freedom to convert to another faith).

A distinction under the law for Mulsims, Christians, Jews, and other faiths must also be eradicated.

I do not believe that it will take killing ever last IslamoNazi to achieve this situtation. In World War II, the Aryan Nazis and the Shinto Japanese pledged to fight to the last man. It did not take that and there is no threat to the rest of the world today. Foreigners can safely travel to those nations even though some fringe brutes may take out vigilante action. The government does not aid or abet those who carry out such action; like this prison abuse "scandal", it is policed and the criminals are brought to justice. The prison scandal was already being investigated by the military when the story broke.

If you are offended by my use of the word "Nazi" combined with Islam (as in IslamoNazis) I am sorry but I explained my usage above. There were too many invocations of Allah and muslims in the 5 minute speech on the Nick Berg video for me not to label these terrorists as warriors in a holy war. As I've said above, I don't see all muslims as being on their side but the IslamoNazis believe themselves to be muslims. The sooner the world eradicates Islamofascism, the sooner we can put such terms behind us.