Their are roughly 8 million Islamic Americans.  A hand full -- 20? -- may have joined or tried to join global jihad, but they are the sorts of extreme outliers that exist in any demographic.

 After September 11th, people weren't so sure.  Sleeper Cells?  How would we know?  Students in physics, chemistry, engineering?  

This is as good a time as we will ever have to recognize the dog that didn't bark.  What didn't happen.  And what didn't happen were American's worst nightmares, the sort that fueled the hit television show, 24.

Violent, radical Islamic Jihad didn't get any traction among Islamic American communities.  And, in addition, the American Islamic community acted as an anti radicalizing force among their members.

This is the outcome in the face of experience of direct harassment in some cases and more subtle suspicion and generalized anger towards their communities.  

Who am I talking about?  Well, here are some interesting demographic facts:

Top 10 Occupations of American Muslims

 As an immigrant group, they seem about as American as apple pie.  Family oriented, oriented toward educational achievement, and here for economic opportunity and freedom of religion.  

They have spent a decade under intense scrutiny and deserve a break.  The benefit of the doubt, if nothing else.  

This is a small part of victory over terror.  Small but important.