Good point, Cabo. It seems to already be happening in places like Dearborn, Michigan, the largest concentration of Muslims this side of Baghdad. As you point out not without some acrimony, but assimilation is happening nonetheless.

There is a problem in the Dearborn schools, where the young male students widely disrespect the rights of the girl students because of their training at home. As I understand it, so far the teachers and school administration has kept the situation under control and consistent with our secular laws and standards. But the teachers are largely Christian Americans, not Muslim first or second generation Americans. I suppose if the school system in a place like Dearborn could find enough Muslims trained to be teachers, the situation might be a bit different. They would still have to follow the rules laid down by the city, state and federal educational administrators, but tensions could arise.

My sister was a first grade teacher in Brooklyn, where the majority of her students were Muslim. She reported that they were uniformly polite, if not always well-behaved. What amazed her was their following of their religious laws and beliefs at times like Ramadan. She described the Muslim kids rejecting morning milk and snacks and sitting in the lunchroom at noon, talking quietly but eating or drinking nothing, consistent with their religious beliefs.

Now that I think about it, how much different is that from the Catholic kids not being able to eat meat on Fridays when we were kids? By the way, do they still do that, or is that one of the things that disappeared along with Latin masses?

But so far, the concentration of Muslims in Dearborn seem to be doing exactly as you suggest, assimilating into American society and culture with only minimal problems.