Unfortunately, at times it appears that this is what they want.
The irony of such a statement is that by making such a statement, we are in fact re-inforcing the view that they are separate. By demanding that they make a collective GROUP showing of loyalty and alligence, we are in fact singling them out as different from the rest of us and that "they" whom we (the rest of us who are not like "them") have conspicously picked out as different from us group must now demonstrate to the rest of us that they are not different.
Why can't the Muslim in this country be like just everyone else in the country,(I mean, this is what we are asking, right?) - to behave as each individual may choose - some do more and care more, some do less and care less - as oppose to having to come to the fore as a separate "group" and make some collective statement representing their group - and we then accuse them of being cliquish and not willing to become part of the rest of us.