Abstract
The Muslim American community needs to pursue a positive vision consistent with modernity and pluralism. The way for individuals to be closest to God is to live in freedom, not just in a democracy. Muslim Americans should be cautious about permitting parallel Muslim societies, giving in to victimization pathologies, or promoting minority politics. Muslim American society can reform through engagement about religion and law; through an apolitical interpretation of umma; through changing dreams of the utopian caliphate or Islamic states to dreams of individual freedom, where access to government and society is open to all; and through establishing strong institutions.
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