Running Towards America

by Patrick Appel

Douthat contends that America Muslims need extra help assimilating. Jamelle Bouie . Bernstein moderates:

I think both of them are missing the main actors here: the immigrantsthemselves, who in almost all cases have been pretty desperate toassimilate as quickly as possible.  That was true of the greatimmigration waves in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it'strue of the great immigration wave now.  Of course, each group has hadvarious cultural bits and...