My point was have you ever seen one refer to themselves as...

Christian Americans?

Any at all?


They don't label themselves that way because they feel no need to segregate themselves from the larger group "Americans"

Unlike the hypenated-Americans

I have no idea... ask one. lol I tried to read the article but I couldn't bring myself to give a shit.

Don't Christians consider themselves Christian before American?

...who asked you?

Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the religious rights of public school students under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Court ruled that public schools could compel students—in this case, Jehovah's Witnesses—to salute the American Flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance despite the students' religious objections to these practices. This decision led to increased persecution of Witnesses in the United States. The Supreme Court overruled this decision a mere three years later, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943). -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minersville...

You may choose "Non-muslims" or "non-Muslims" depending on your stylistic preference.

It's okay to lie about these things (to NONE muslims) so I'm sure the number is much higher than half. I'd say 99.999% are muslim first and foremost by far.

For a lot of people it would not be rhetorical.

Yes, it was a rhetorical question.

So in answer to your original question.

Given the primacy of Muslim in their thinking and life, and Islam's incompatibility with our lifestyle, I would be very concerned.

I know I am, and have been.

Linguistics would agree with you, as does mathematics. Order of operations indicates importance.

For years my opinion has always been that when you put a modifier in front of a label, you are the modifier first.

That was my big issue with George W Bush. When he labelled himself as a compassionate conservative that told me he was more worried about compassion than conservatism.

African Americans - if they insist on the label they care more about the African bit than the American bit

Native American - care more about the tribe than the country. Although at least in this case this is by design. Our government segregated them and made the reservations sovereign. So that isn't really surprising.

In every case the modifier ahead of the label is their primary focus.

So for a Muslim American, the Muslim bit has primacy.