And furthermore Irish, German and Italian immigrants seem culturally similar to you now precisely due to assimilation. At the time the Irish were considered sub-human, rape-hungry, drunk simians by the WASP establishment. They did their best to keep them out, marshaling the same arguments you are marshaling.
In point of fact, America, as a traditionally Christian nation, has far more culture in common with Muslims, another people of the book, then they do with Chinese, Japanese, Hindus, Southeast Asians, etc.
Muslims are just available to you as a convenient other. You are deriving the same pleasure and sense of security from your bigotry as any bigot in the past. You are just experiencing it in the present tense.
But don't mistake me, the convictions that are animating these posts of yours give you a window onto all fascist impulses of the past. In a way you are getting to know what it was like to be a regular ol' German 30-something in 1933.
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