re: #5 electrotek

Because ME Christians have grown up to assume since they are Christian, they are part of the white majority.

And add to their hatred of Muslims and they are under the assumption that they have fully assimilated into American life.

I was just struck by how similar this is to how Jews felt in Germany before Hitler - they’d assimilated into the society, they fought in Germany’s wars, they felt like GERMANS who happened to be Jewish. Their friends and neighbors would certainly not do anything bad to them.