Ed Husain

And, you know, so...

I don't want to give examples of individuals who talked about this, but the point is that there is an optimism and an openness and a willingness to accept others.

For those of us who are English speakers by birth, we're at home here.

I hope you both feel like that when you're on the streets of New York or further afield.

In a way, we just don't in the parts of our own country because of this cynicism and division.

So I just think the US isn't...

let's not name him, but a prominent UK left-leaning media commentator came to America too.

And he went to pray at the Houses of Congress.

And while he was on Friday Press, he met

American Muslims who are in the CIA and who are in the Pentagon.

And as a leftist person born and raised in the UK, he just couldn't make sense of that.

You're in the CIA and you're in the Pentagon, you serve this country, and how could you be Muslim?

Because for this leftist guy from England, being Muslim was a political identity that I've got to be anti-American

and I've got to fight American soldiers, and I can't possibly be in the CIA because that's my archenemy.

But hundreds of Muslims are in the CIA, and thousands serve the armed forces here.

And I think that's the success story.

And, you know, thousands are in the FBI and elsewhere, which we just don't have in the UK to be able to point to.

And I think the Americans, you know, the non-establishment of religion cause makes it...

The Islamist project just doesn't take off because you're never going to establish your Islamism in this country.

They just don't want religion at state level.