I read an article a couple weeks ago about a revert and his difficulties in engaging with the local Muslim community where he lived.
The Masajids he went to didn't have anyone speaking English...it was little Pakistan, little Egypt, ect, wherever he went (I think NY). This revert even talked about how Eid was the loneliest time of the year for him because of the communities being too close-knit and a bit non-inclusive if you will.
Anyway, I stumbled upon a young revert and his experience was in the LA Times recently.
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This summer, the 22-year-old Portland State University pre-law student pursued a years-long dream. The young Muslim traveled to Cairo to broaden his understanding of his faith, following the path forged by Malcolm X, whose thinking about race relations changed after he visited Egypt and other parts of the Mideast and Africa.
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But Ali brought his American tendency for criticism and skepticism to a part of the world that values obedience and cohesion above all. He challenged much of what he saw, and ultimately he found himself uncomfortable in the heart of the Muslim world.
“This place went from like cool to weird in the last week,” Ali said in the days before he left. “I’m ready to get back home. I’m kind of tired right now.”
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But Ali belongs to a new group of African American Muslims who have encountered few such obstacles. In California and in college, he counts Arabs, South Asians and Iranians among his closest friends.
“In college we’re all one big group,” he said. “In the mosque we’re all together. Where I come from, there’s no, ‘that’s the black mosque and that’s the Pakistani mosque.’ “
But the petty ways some Egyptians viewed the faith he reveres rattled Ali. Once, he got into a cab with a driver who demanded he prove that he was a Muslim by reciting the fatiha, the opening chapter of the Koran.
After five weeks in the Middle East, he realized he was far more comfortable with the hyphenated American Muslims back home than with those here.
He yearned to head back to the Portland campus for Ramadan. He and his fellow Muslim students are organizing their second annual holiday “fast-a-thon”: Non-Muslims can join in the traditional dawn-to-dusk abstention from food and drink.
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hmm..discuss
give them hell and u'll see how they beg and clean the floor u walk on with their tongues 
