Thus sayeth a person to my wife today about an American convert she knows who talks about Islam. When she told me this, I immediately knew it applied to me as well since that man and I have in common our whiteness and maleness. You see, people expect a brown immigrant who speaks with an accent when they hear someone representing Islam. Even better if they are exotic with a turban or Azharite red Fez. When they don't get it, thier pre-programmed wiring tells them that the representative must not be authentic. This is despite the equally feasible conclusion that thier expectation itself was flawed, but Hummer-driving Americans who never deserved to have US Marines die for them never look within themselves for the error.