It’s very hard, M.

The American “Freedom of Speech” concept was designed specifically to protect discomfiting speech. Here, American Nazis have every right to march through a predominantly Jewish suburb (reference: Skokie, Illinois) — and Jews would be among the first to defend them! (reference: Nat Hentoff). However, the American program and sensibility has been geared to post-Enlightenment equality with a good dose of Greco-Roman esprit and a fair contribution from Hillel by way of Jesus, and those who say bigoted, divisive, and ugly things about others become themselves marginalized. 

Our bigots, whatever their type and targets, are free to speak: our citizens are as free to castigate or ignore them.

This with Islam is what the Founding Fathers wished to avoid here, and notably, analogically, Catholic vs. Protestant rivalries were settled very early in Maryland history specifically; it could be said of the Jews chased up from Brazil and representing the Dutch East Indies Company that they readily addressed proposed discrimination and took care of Stuyvesant’s less noble political instincts in New York, and that to everyone’s benefit.

With politics, someone has to go “on point” for every little thing of benefit to the greater comfort, freedom, and security of the general humanity.

The world is behind you, M., but it needs to be behind you where you are!

Me too, perhaps, but I have fewer immediate local concerns.