I'm sad for my adopted home town of Tiskilwa, about an hour nor

You don't need to drive an hour north to find this.

Seriously, there are people who live, work and die in some small towns.They never left for as much an hour. I talked to some of them. Very sad.

Heard same sentiment when I was in Fairfax Cty, VA.... (not my most recent trip, a time prior.)

There's been a Muslim community in Peoria for I don't know how many years. They have a school/mosque out on Charter Oak Road. I delivered there a couple times for Jason's Deli when they hosted an elaborate Legos Building tournament, and any youth could come in and compete, not just Muslim. Those in the small towns trying to fear monger about Muslims taking over need to get out of their shell and see that bigger urban areas never got taken over. This same attitude about Muslims and Islam also erupted during the Obama administration, when Far Right activists swore he would turn the country away from all other religions to just Islamic. While forgetting that Obama attended a Chicago Baptist Church for 20 years before his Presidency.
My opinion and mine alone and no one else.

But isn't that the American Way? Persecute any one different? Those from Africa, Poland, Ireland, and those of Jewish faith suffered at "our" hands. Why would this be any different?
I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying it happens in the red, white, and blue if you're "different".