That nails that part of the issue for me.
It’s nice to say “we should take everyone as individuals”. The practical reality is that it is extremely difficult to do this, borderline impossible.
And it is not at all clear that the “MTV bomb” of cultural assimilation will ever work in the face of quiet intimidation and indoctrination by the radicals. See: Europe for how this is working; not well, from what I can tell.
Even though we're never going to get it perfect, we have to try. The alternative is dangerous and will destroy the Constitution and this country. To grasp that, you need only look at similar arguments from the left directed at private gun ownership, right-wing talk radio, anti-abortion protesters, and so on. They, too, would like to paint all of their opponents with a broad brush and condemn them all. It's sloppy and lazy and it leads no place good.
As libertarians so often point out, liberty and safety are at odds with each other. You can't always have both. And it's always easy to sacrifice the liberty and property of some other group that you don't belong to, whether we're talking about affirmative action and reparations or taxing the rich, but you need to consider what happens when the same principles are turned on you by others. You can't wait until the finger points at your own group to raise an objection to injustice. I'm not advocating coddling (and I think there is already too much of that). I'm condemning persecution of the innocent on the sole basis of their religion. Is it really so difficult for conservatives here to see the danger of that?
And it is not at all clear that the “MTV bomb” of cultural assimilation will ever work in the face of quiet intimidation and indoctrination by the radicals. See: Europe for how this is working; not well, from what I can tell.
It depends on what part of Europe you are talking about but a big part of the problem in Europe is very high immigrant unemployment, social welfare programs that make unemployment a viable lifestyle, and their own racism against those groups that create a large number of angry, unemployed, and unemployable young men. That's a problem everywhere it happens, even if Islam isn't a part of the picture.