The US government is facing a big challenge in dealing with its Muslim citizens. Following in the footsteps of the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber, now a “Christmas tree bomber” has been arrested–this time, a US citizen originally from Somalia. Such behavior in the name of Allah will give a bad name to good Muslims living in the US.

Mohamud, a resident of Corvallis, Oregon, and a student at Oregon State University, is joining a list of those who love the US enough to be naturalized and who want a high education here, but hate this country anyway. The question is, how it is possible to love and hate America at the same time? As the Bayaa of Congo say, “You cannot love the fruit and hate its tree.”