Are you referring to the discussion between Maher and Rose in 2014 at a big round wood table? In that discussion Maher linked all Muslims to the violent extremists by pointing out that the foundations of the extremists beliefs are found in the foundations of the Islam, which is true, but Rose pointed out that most Muslims do not follow the extremists’ interpretation and are not terrorists.
What Maher has done is to commit the fallacy of defective induction. He assumes that the sample he uses (the violent religious extremists) are representative of the general population simply because they have the same religion. Since his argument is logically invalid (defective induction), and is also factually untrue (Rose), his conclusion that Muslims do not assimilate well is unfounded.
BTW, Canada brought in 25,000 Syrian refugees last year. When compared on a per capita basis with the Syrian refugees taken in by the USA last year, that’s 24:1, so given the general similarities between Canada and the USA, one would expect the result of so many more Syrian refugees ending up in Canada than the USA, both relatively and absolutely, would be a good indicator of how they would fair in the USA, barring subatantial American biggotry as is being trumpeted by a significant portion of USA citizens.
Guess what the result in Canada has been? Muslims are thriving and eagerly adapting to their new home, and we’re OK with them joining us. Unless there is something exceptional about the USA that makes it toxic to Muslims (which I fear that there is), one can reasonably expect that they would thrive in the USA too (and I submit that they do thrive there despite the [del]late[/del] present unpleasantness). Have a look at this Statistics Canada survey designed and conducted by Environics. Positive assimilation while retaining religious/cultural identity is how I would sum it up, which is what Canada is aboat.
To be fair, we have had a serious terrorist attack, only despite what Fox said and despite Trump using it to justify his proactive actions against Muslims, the terrorist wasn’t a Muslim immigrant. The terrorist was a pure laine Québecois nationalist who is a fan of Le Pen and Le Donald, who executed six Muslims and seriously injured many others while they were praying at their Mosque the morning after your Donald, as part of his ongoing attacks on Muslims, banned entry to the USA by people from seven primarily Muslim nations. Your leader is a stochastic terrorist with innocent Muslim blood on his hands. I very much wish that Trump would stop encouraging terrorism, particularly when it seeps into my country and kills my fellow citizens.
Of course that is just one example, and one example does not a sample make, so I encourage you to take a good hard look at terrorist attacks in the USA over the last decade. Here is your Deparatment of Homeland Security funded Global Terrorism Database. Yes, in the USA Islamic based terrorism is more frequent than non-Islamic based terrorism, so of course Islamic terrorism and non-islamic terrorism both need to be addresed, but let’s put things in perspective.
Aside from the 2001-09-11 attacks by al-Qaeda, terrorism in the USA is not a significant problem. For example, in 2014 there were 63 fatalities in the USA from Islamic and non-Islamic terrorist attacks (with the San Bernardino Islamic attack murdering the most people: 16). In that same time period, there were 33,736 firearms deaths according to your CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, which is substantially similar to your motor vehicle death rate and uttery unrelatable to any other first world gun death rates. 33,736 gun deaths to 63 terrorist attacks including both Islamic and non-Islamic terrorist attacks: your gun death rate is 535 times higher than your terrorist attack death rate. It’s about time you get your priorities straight and start dealing with your ongoing own home-grown bloodbath that has little to do with terrorism, let alone Islamic terrorism.
I suggest you do a cost-benefit analysis. Doctors are credited with increasing average life expectancy by about five years. About 50,000 physicians in the USA are Muslims, who can then be credited with increasing the total number of years that people in the USA live by 250,000 years, which when which when averaged over a forty year career, comes to an aggregate average of 6,250 lives saved each year. You should thank your lucky stars for such people.
Here’s the cost-benefit: an aggregate average of 6,250 lives saved each year by Muslim doctors in the USA, verses an average of 13 lives lost to terrorism (both Islamic and non-Islamic) post-9/11, or if you wish to include the extraordinary 2001 attack, an average of 163 lives lost per year to terrorism (both Islamic and non-Islamic). Either way, the benefit of 6,250 lives saved each year far outweighs the loss of 13 or 163 lives lost per year to terrorism of which Islamic terrorism is the plurality.
And those are just the doctors. Muslims participate in all facets of life and immeasurably contribute to the USA. Your fascist leadership is cutting off your nose to spite your face through its ongoing hatred of Muslims.