In a medium sized country town in Australia, we have a meat-processing plant where the employees are 90% muslim. They are mostly single men. There is no mosque. There are no clerics. There is no trouble. There are no demands for special treatment. Many visit the homes of local residents, religion never enters into their activities, they go to football games, community picnics. They come from Afghanistan and Iran. Their employers speak highly of them all.
Where does the trouble start? With the Civil Libertarians, who need to be seen to justify their existence, and the clerics once a mosque is built. Generally with Saudi money.
Note: the employees of whom I write have shown no wish to formally practice islam. Methinks they would require to be DRIVEN to it.
Sounds like some hard-working men, a nice thing to see!
The CL's here are the same---always looking to start trouble and, as you well stated, justify their existence.
BTW, I was chatting with a "former" islamicist (an Afghani) the other day, he told me he had to leave the PROP because it was so "rooted in hatred"; something he could not stomach. He aslo could not bear to see women treated as chattel.
He, too, blamed the Saudi's for the lions share of the hate mongering.