I remember as a kid,, going weeks or months,,and never hearing a word about islam, or that wretched part of the world.
I would love a day without islam.
My earliest memory of the ME is the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Part of the reason was that there weren’t many muslims in the US when you were a kid. I have attached a link to the US Census Bureau which shows that the islamic population of the US increased by 156% from 1990 - 2008, from 527,000 to 1,349,000. I have read that the US islamic population was around 100,000 in 1970, but the 1970 census data is voluminous and I have found only .pdf images, no digital data. So the islamic population has grown to 3 times the 1990 figures and 15 times the 1970 figures if you believe these stats.
I suspect that the policy allowing preferential immigration from cultures dedicated to the destruction of our own is part of the Progressive need for self destruction, but I admit a personal bias in this regard.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/population/religion.html