Calling Muslims ‘un-American’ is un-American
By Dalia Mogahed
June 21, 2016
June 22, 2016 2:20pm
... Whether a Muslim goes to the mosque every day or never sets foot in one makes no difference to his or her views of violence. As Police Chief J. Thomas Manger of Montgomery County, Md., recently remarked, “Radicalization is not occurring in mosques. It’s going on in a basement or a bedroom somewhere, with an individual sitting in front of a computer.”
Where mosque-going Muslims stood out, according to the same Institute of Social Policy and Understanding study, was not in their acceptance of terrorism but in their engagement in democracy — the peaceful means of political change groups like the Islamic State seek to destroy.
Muslims who attend a mosque at least once a week were more likely than those who attend less often to be registered to vote (74 versus 49 percent), to intend to vote (92 versus 81 percent) and to report cooperating with others to solve a problem in their neighborhood (49 versus 30 percent, respectively) ...
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Calling-Muslims-un-American-is-un-American-8316334.php
