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I think the american situation is vastly different because a large portion of americans persist on the value of patriotism, which could have led incoming arabs to incorporate and focus on this instead of the religious values that, I assume, few people in their vicinity shared and thus resulted to in a far more moderate version in comparison to the more extremist version visible in europe.
My only intercontinental, cultural bridge for that topic is my muslim american friend and although her parents are still more religiously driven than european christians (who've been culturally castrated), they don't come close to the radicalism of their counterparts over here.
I think europeans simply failed to provide expected behavioural models that arabs could orientate on, because of shame for the colonial history.
That and the sheer volume of immigrants with completely different cultural norms (regarding women, violence, pluralist opinions, etc) gave birth to microcosms of their native society within ours.
I am quite fond of persian history, so it sucks to see their people getting mistreated without good reason, but the perception of jews seems to keep going down globally, so that might improve the iranians' standing.
Class can definitely be a factor, but I made the prior points to shed light on the difference between muslim and non muslim immigrants, who share similar economic backgrounds, but adapt differently.
I'll look the neurosurgeon and the religious models I haven't heard of up, but I agree with your assessment of abrahamic religions and buddhism (I have a siddartha figure at home, although it's more for his values of clarity than to follow his teachings as a whole).
There's obvious problems that arise without the shared values that religion provides, but you can fix that later.
Anyways, best of luck in case the thread dies before I can answer next time. Was nice to meet ya
