I have no way of looking at Islam other than as a theocracy, not a religion.
A theocracy is by definition a religion. It is more than a religion, to be sure, but doesn't cease to be a religion because it's also political, legal, etc.
IOW, theocracies are a subset of religions.
I'd be ok with a campaign to remove theocracies from 1a protection. Let's start ramping up to amend the Constitution appropriately.
Just keep in mind that some government agency or court will then be empowered to determine which religions are really theocracies. Do we really want that?
I respectfully disagree. I understand a religion to be a body of ideas about God’s relationship to the world and to people. I think the Enlightenment, by separating religion and the state, was based on the idea that people have a private area within which they have the right to reach whatever conclusions they want about those issues.
When the body of thought extends into the actual governance of the world as to people who do not adhere to the religion, I think it goes beyond religion and starts to be about politics. I agree with the Range Owner’s contention that Islam does that. Christianity certainly doesn’t — that’s why Jesus said people should render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and render unto God that which is God’s — and I think the same is true of Rabbinic Judaism, Buhddism, and pretty much every other religion I can think of — EXCEPT Islam.