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Yeah, but what qualifies as a religion - what if I want my kid to be able to go to school naked because I say it's my religion? I think in all honesty the framers of the Constitution had Christians in mind when they wrote about freedom of religion.

They had in mind Christianity and religions like Judaism which share in common with Christianity certain core values derived from what 18th-century philosophy regarded as natural rights. To the extent practitioners of Islam can abide by those core values, there is no problem. But when a religion radically departs from those core values, as fundamentalist Islam does, it undermines the foundation of what the Constitution's concept of freedom of religion is based on.

Actually, if you read what the Founding Fathers actually wrote, they believed in religious freedom for Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and Catholics, as well as Protestants.

Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 22 November 1, 1784 - November 6, 1785 - Richard Henry Lee to James Madison: " I fully agree with the presbyterians, that true freedom embraces the Mahomitan [Muslim] and the Gentoo [Hindu] as well as the Xn [Christian] religion."