But I don't think we will suffer as much from home-grown "lone-wolf" Islamic terrorists as Europe has. Our Muslim populations are integrated into the society, you can't even tell who they are unless they wear traditional garb, and the vast majority do not. Their kids speak unaccented English and are hip to pop culture. American Muslims tend to be middle class, professional types, or at least feel they have a chance to go that way (like the trio that were murdered in NC), they were that way before they immigrated, and they are not recruitable into terrorism by religious fanaticism through their poverty and second-class citizenship.

In Europe, they were poor Arabs and Turks, brought in as cheap labor to do low-level jobs that Europeans felt were beneath them. This created a segregated, impoverished underclass which the Imams and Jihadists were able to exploit. We have segregated and impoverished underclasses in this country, too, prone to violence and crime, but they don't have the religious component that can be manipulated by demagogues.

But the same thing could happen if the society turned against Muslims, condemned or persecuted them for being Muslims, not for being terrorists. George W Bush understood this, to his credit, right after 9/11, when he warned us against blaming the attacks against Muslims in general.