This is interesting...
whereas the US is a "melting pot", even priding ourselves in being open to anyone who desires to enter, to the point where we cannot seem to will ourselves to create any "boundaries" by which immigrants should adhere to when seeking to enter our country.
Sure, we have rules and laws for those people who will abide by them, but in fact we have no will to enforce those laws, and will allow and welcome anyone who manages to cross our borders.
Perhaps this is the fault of our melting pot creation. We have no identifiable national custom which bonds us all together. I suppose you could say that we are all bonded by the sense of seeking freedom, but even that bond weakens our drive to exclude illegal aliens.
After all, those illegals are simply seeking their own freedoms, and so we welcome them.
I am not saying that the Japanese have it right. As with all cultures there are certain to be areas of theirs which could be improved. But at least they have an identity, which, although it may be exclude Muslims, it does not do so without respect.
Everyday Muslim people like to say that they are not like the extremists. They like to say that they do not share the same beliefs and that the extremists are wrong. And I sympathize with them, but not for long, because it is the everyday Muslim person who allows the extremists to exist. They are all part of the same "club" if you will, and if they don't like what the extremists think, say, and do , then they need to start a campaign against them.
How that would happen, or what its goals would be, I don't know, but when I see that the children of Muslims who have immigrated to other countries are going back to the middle east to join the cause of groups like ISIS, then I think that these Muslims are not condemning all things radical to their children, despite what they might claim.