WaPo Columnist Says Muslims Should Not Be Expected to Assimilate, and What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Robert Spencer | 1:40 PM on April 10, 2026
It used to be taken for granted that immigrants to the United States would assimilate, adopt American cultural values, and become Americans. That idea, of course, was lost long ago as the lust for “diversity” and “multiculturalism” overtook the political and media elites, but up until Old Joe Biden opened the floodgates to any sentient being that could be relied upon to vote Democrat, most Americans took for granted the idea that people who settled in this country should obey the existing laws.
No more, however. On Wednesday, Shadi Hamid, a Washington Post columnist and professor at Georgetown University, wrote in the WaPo that expecting Muslims to adopt American values was just another manifestation of that “Islamophobia” that everyone is so desperate to avoid. Hamid argued not only that Muslims should not be expected to assimilate into American society, but that efforts to ban Sharia were as futile as they were “bigoted,” for Muslims simply weren’t going to give up Sharia, and that was that. In the midst of all Hamid’s bravado, however, he was extremely disingenuous about the nature of Sharia itself.
As he is a cosseted member of the leftist establishment, Hamid knows that he is expected to play the victim, and he strikes the pose with gusto. Hamid’s America, where he enjoys so very much privilege, is positively teeming with “Islamophobes”: “the Sharia-Free America Caucus has swelled to 60 House members. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) recently said, ‘I’m ready to get rid of the Muslims.’”
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