I like the headline on this George Jonas column – “Jihad rules! Jews suck!” – because it gets to the heart of one of the big points he’s making – that we measure “assimilation” too superficially: If someone’s picked up the rhythms of the vernacular, we assume they’ve mastered the underlying harmonics of western society, too. Not so.

On the other hand, no matter how they talk, a lot of folks seem determined not to hear what they’re saying:

WASHINGTON – Efforts to bring together Jewish and Muslim communities hit another snag when an imam at a major Muslim conference gave an incendiary speech in which he said Jews were to blame for the Holocaust… Warith Deen Umar, a New York imam, spoke critically of Jews, saying that the Holocaust happened to the Jews “because they were serially disobedient to Allah.”