My comment was about how one would go about "getting to know" Muslims unless they participate actively in mainstream social life. Those who do will have no problem being accepted, as Ms. Nawaz obviously has. 

Muslims who mingle socially like anyone else, will have no problem being accepted just like anyone else, it is those who don't that are the subject of criticism, like, presumably, Ms. Ishaq. So why claim that the problem is that the mainstream won't "get to know them" when the problem is the reverse, those that won't interact with mainstream society?

There are outside factors that discourage such "getting to know you", like being on welfare or SAHM which means you don't meet people at work, etc., which can be overcome by making efforts to socialize elsewhere, but there are also intentional religious barriers to such mingling.

It had nothing to do with what she writes about.