Still, it won seats and electoral votes...using the same rhetoric you're using.
Fact is, when it came down to it, many "Catholics" didn't just blindly follow the Pope against the US. I daresay many Muslims will not blindly commit mass-murder, too. Some might say they are not True MuslimsTM, so then why harass them as if they are?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6473
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CAIR'S recently published 2002 Civil Rights Report reads much like virtually all other "civil rights" reports that are preordained to "discover" that the purportedly victimized groups in question are suffering unimaginable pain. It details "incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, stereotyping, discrimination, and harassment" allegedly spawned by the "epidemic" of "Islamophobic backlash that occurred following the September 11 terrorist attacks." According to the report, "Muslims in the United States are more apprehensive than ever about discrimination and intolerance." From passenger profiling at airports, to crackdowns on visa violators, to the closing of terrorist-linked Muslim charities like the HLF, to the Patriot Act's provisions (which, incidentally, made possible the recent crucial arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) - all of these measures, according to CAIR, constitute proof that "discrimination is now part of daily life for American Muslims."
Predictably, CAIR says nothing about the remarkable prosperity of Muslims in America, who in fact constitute the most affluent Muslim society on earth. As Daniel Pipes reported in November 2000, American Muslims "boast among the highest rates of education of any group in the country (a whopping 52 percent appear to hold graduate degrees), and this translates into a pattern of prestigious and remunerative employment." Muslim Americans' median household income of about $69,000 stands well above the national average.