Muslims in America increasingly alienated as hatred grows in Bible belt - Guardian

The diminutive fifty-something physiotherapist, who has lived in Murfreesboro for most of her adult life, happens to be on the board of her town's Islamic centre. Now she finds herself accused of being a front for Islamic Jihad, of planning to impose sharia law on her neighbours, and of threatening the very existence of Christianity in Tennessee.
"There is something around the whole United States, something is different. I was here since 1982. " -- "We have trouble in California, we have trouble in New York, we have trouble in Florida."