Well, but it also doesn't have very much to do with Islam, which is why all of these sorts of things do pander a bit to a prejudiced bent. The social patterns

Well, but it also doesn't have very much to do with Islam, which is why all of these sorts of things do pander a bit to a prejudiced bent. The social patterns of say, Turkish in Germany (where I live now) and Mexican-Americans in the southern US (where I grew up) are roughly comparable and all of the specifically "Muslim" traits can be more effectively explained in socio-economic terms. Islam, like all of the major world religions, has shown remarkable flexibility in adapting to the societies where it has spread. One way you can pretty easily see this is that despite the four countries with the largest Muslim populations not being in the Middle East or northern Africa, "muslim" culture, in this context, is almost always referring to those regions.