Abu Sinan on perceptions of converts

Abu Sinan's blog has an article on how converts are perceived and the continual "wannabe" tag which is applied to them/us in certain places:

You get the Christians or Jews who are scared and worried. I mean, why would someone abandon their faith to go to another one? Is there something wrong with our faith? Have they seen something we don't? Is the convert/revert just someone who doesn't fit in who is trying to find another group to cling to?
You also get the lapsed, non practicing Muslims, who wonder why anyone would choose to follow a faith that they themselves have rejected or are just too lazy to follow. Often they cannot get their mind around the idea that Islam is a wonderful faith that others outside the religion would feel drawn to, so they have to make it out to be that converts/reverts are sheep, they don't really know the religion, or they are just people that "wannabe" Arabs. They fall into the trap that so many non Muslims have, "
Never mind the fact that Arabs only make up about 10-15% of Islam, and never mind, that as a Muslim, I have found that just as many converts who adopt the cultural practices of a Muslim nation take on Pakistani or African traits. It is also my experience that converts/reverts also, for the most part, do not come to the religion because they are seeking to "fit in." I couldn't think of almost anything else one could do in the post 9/11 world to make you fit in LESS than to convert/revert to Islam. Converts tend to be the very people who have never sought to fit in, who have traveled their own paths, and don't really feel the need to "fit in."