"Clearly, these two approaches to the meaning of America

 bear far-reaching implications for Muslim-Americans. On the nativist approach, full commitment to and inclusion in America would entail a commitment to a neo-Anglo Saxon culture that sets itself up as the determiner and protector of all that is "truly American." [23] On the pluralist approach, however, commitment to America would not entail any commitment to any particular culture but rather to a political arrangement that protects their right to remain culturally cum religiously independent. This is essentially what conservative critic Samuel P. Huntington had in mind when he lamented (in an essay revealingly entitled "The Erosion of American Identity") that America is now taken by many minorities as the greatest protector of the right to remain themselves. [24]

 -Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection by Sherman Jackson, pg. 139-140