Posted on 09/23/2019 5:50:57 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Once a fringe argument restricted to extreme anti-Muslim corners of the internet, the idea that Islam is not actually a religion, and therefore does not qualify for religious liberty protections, has rapidly gained salience in mainstream public discourse in the U.S. among activists, media commentators, and lawmakers alike.
In her new book, When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom, attorney Asma Uddin traces the assertion’s American origins from extreme right-wing activist spaces to the White House. A religious liberty expert and Senior Scholar with the Religious Freedom Center at the Freedom Forum Institute in Washington, D.C., Uddin said proponents of this argument claim that Islam is a dangerous political ideology and a tool to commit violence and impose the Islamic way of life upon non-Muslims. That, they argue, makes Islam incompatible with democracy and America.
“It’s very much rooted in this idea that Muslims have a very fundamental allegiance to something other than the U.S Constitution,” Uddin said. “It could be to Muslim governments abroad, but more likely the claim is that you have loyalty to shariah.”
(Excerpt) Read more at religionandpolitics.org ...
Islam is seditious wrt the US Constitution [and Western Civ in general].
“Uddin said proponents of this argument claim that Islam is a dangerous political ideology and a tool to commit violence and impose the Islamic way of life upon non-Muslims.“
Gee, wherever would people get that idea?
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Well since their “religion” commands that they cut my head off, I see that as a GOOD thing.
Islam is not a religion. It is a totalitarian cult like form of governance imposed by force. It wraps itself in the cloak of religion because it’s followers know that western civilization is too gutless to call it what it is, and will welcome the murderous barbarians with open arms in the name of acceptance and diversity.
Islam is fine in Islamic countries.
Islam doesn’t like music, alcohol, homosexuality or lack of belief in God.
Islam is violently intolerant.
It’s a junk religion and sad it’s spread so much. Much of that was through conquest.
Most Muslims are sensible. Some are not, and can quote the Prophet without knowing the Prophet’s circumstances to improperly justify actions that would not please God.
The goal of Islam is to please God, some partial believers don’t understand that.
Mohammedanism is a cult of hate started by a camel-humping pedophile to justify rape, murder and theft.
Totalitarian political death cult. It is incompatible not only with American and Western values, it is incompatible with humanity.
An anti-American terrorist ideology has no first amendment protection.
correction: lack of belief in their “Allah” - not the God of the Bible.
Also dogs, bacon, ...
Islam is a cult with a political agenda of world domination. It was started by a savage and barbaric pedophile.
...kielbasa, souvlaki, and country ham.
No thanks. I don’t like Islam but it would definitely be a slippery slope to allow someone to declare it is not a religion.
Muslims do not recognize US law. Only Sharia law.
There are 68 passages in the Koran that a muslim may lie, cheat, steal and even kill an infidel. MusLims can never assimilate.
It would be more accurate to say that apostate Muslims are sensible.
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