I found this refreshing... Glad not all americans think alike.
Well, while most Americans don't want to cause needless trouble to people who just happen to have ancestry from a part of the world where Islam is the religion - most Americans also want to be as safe from terrorism as they thought they were before September 11, 2001 - and to pay no part of the cost of achieving that goal, whether in their liberties, their convenience, their comfort, or their taxes.
And I don't see what's wrong with that. Crime is the fault of criminals; terrorism is the fault of terrorists; and so it's entirely reasonable for any and all innocent people not to want to be bothered.
The trouble is, you can't always get what you want. If you could read people's minds and find the terrorists right away, there wouldn't be much terrorism.
Terrorist attacks on behalf of Islamist organizations against targets in the United States would be more difficult to carry out if there was nobody from that part of the world in Canada, the United States, or Mexico... and nobody from that part of the world could enter any of those countries.
I mean, I suppose they could still launch a missile at Florida from the Bahamas...
And it was because of Muslims being present within Denmark, for example, that the cartoons in a Danish newspaper got publicized, and became an issue that led to violence. (Many of the Islamic countries in which this violence happened haven't made condign examples of its participants.)
Sadly, China has a second-strike capability, and Russia has become a country far from being fully democratic.
Thus, Israel, Taiwan, South Korea, and Georgia are all subject to external threat to some extent. Pirates from Somalia raid lawful international commerce. Thus, it is still not the case that no one in their right mind would even begin to dare to launch an attack on one of the world's industrial democracies - and as long as this is the case, sadly, we will be distracted by having to deal with it from more positive and beneficial activities.