NYTIMES SAYS MORE MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS ARE OKAY BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE BUSH

More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip - New York Times

NYTimes paints a rosy, Norman Rockwell-esque portrait of the growing number of Muslim immigrants in the United States.

But five years later, as the United States wrestles with questions of terrorism, civil liberties and immigration control, Muslims appear to be moving here again in surprising numbers, according to statistics collected by the Department of Homeland Security and the Census Bureau.

Immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia are planting new roots in states from Virginia to Texas to California.

In 2005, more people from Muslim countries became legal permanent United States residents — nearly 96,000 — than in any year in the previous two decades.

More than 40,000 of them were admitted last year, the highest annual number since the terrorist attacks, according to data on 22 countries provided by the Department of Homeland Security.

Many have made the journey unbowed by tales of immigrant hardship, and despite their own opposition to American policy in the Middle East. They come seeking the same promise that has drawn foreigners to the United States for many decades, according to a range of experts and immigrants: economic opportunity and political freedom.

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Michelle Malkin remembers American Airlines Flight 77 and other airlines and victims lost on that horrible day.