Doug
Hate to pee on your parade, but "Islamic" and "American" are not mutually exclusive. You have a fairly strong Islamic community right there in the USA. Raping, pillaging? Less advanced than you?
When I was there in May I saw a very reasoned plea by a leader of the Islamic community asking that Americans do not make the mistake of judging Islam by the actions of a few, any more than you judge "Christianity" by what happened at Waco.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1