The New York Times runs a distressing op-ed by a Muslim anguished at the takeover of his local mosque in Morgantown, West Virginia by people promoting radical Islam. The stakes in the struggle for the Muslim soul in America are incredibly high: as the piece concludes, "if tolerant and inclusive Islam can’t express itself in small corners like Morgantown, where on earth can the real beauty of Islam flourish?"
West Virginians and radical Islam? Cheese and crackers!
Then again West Virginia is outside of the "Core", it may even be in the "Gap".