[KR - This article got front-page coverage in the NYT today. The research is pretty poor, especially in terms of the sociodemographics of the Pakistani community (why couldn’t they use Census data?), but the description of Devon Avenue and some of the anecdotes serve as good illustrations — but of what, one might ask. The piece is very inconclusive about what to expect.]

“Even so, members of the Pakistani immigrant community here find themselves joining the speculation as to whether sinister plots could be hatched in places like Devon (pronounced deh-VAHN) Avenue.

The most common response is no, at least not now, because of differences that have made Pakistanis in the United States far better off economically and more assimilated culturally than their counterparts in Britain. But some Pakistani-Americans do not rule out the possibility, given how little is understood about the exact tipping point that pushes angry young Muslim men to accept an ideology that endorses suicide and mass murder.

The idea of a relatively smaller, more prosperous, more striving immigrant community inoculating against terror cells goes only so far, they say.”

See article in New York Times