I have to agree. Prohibiting basic exercise of one of the world’s biggest religions violates the 1st Amendment. Insofar as that religion may include views on government & politics (which doesn’t?) is also covered by the 1st Amendment. Doesn’t mean you have to embrace/kowtow/[censored]/like it, but you can’t ban mundane exercise of it either.
His premise amounts to saying the 2nd Amendment is not violated so long as you own, store, and use what arms according to gov’t consent. Doesn’t work that way.
Any FReeper who believes Islam is a religion needs his/her head examined.
If the 'holy book' of a religion instructs its followers to either convert, or enslave, or kill, those outside their religion - that religion has no place in any land that desires freedom. Does the First Amendment apply to death cults? Were the Brits of the 1800s wrong in banning the Thuggee religion?
I don't know that the Founding Fathers had the Mohammaden religion in mind, when, at the time they wrote the Constitution, the islamic world had been at war with the West for over 1000 years.
Insofar as that religion may include views on government & politics (which doesn’t?) is also covered by the 1st Amendment.
That's a pretty broadbrush of moral equivalency that you are laying there. Christianity will tell us to pay our taxes and honor rulers (which admittedly, can be tough to follow at time); but always have God first (i.e., if it comes a choice between honoring God or man's Government -- honor God). I don't know about the other religions of man -- but the only one that seems to require its adherent to murder the 'nonbelievers' is islam...
Muslims believe that GOD wrote the Holy Quran, not a man named Mohammed.
you cannot remove even one verse, without committing blasphemy.
(think evangelical Christian on steroids)
if the Government doesn’t follow sharia law, and outlaws even ONE thing in the Quran, then that government is NOT legitimate according to Islam. and Muslims should seek to otherthrow it. either violently as Al-Queda, or otherwise, as Muslim Brotherhood and Gulen do.
A religion that by definition is seditious to our Constitution, is protected BY the Constitution?
if so, our descendents WILL bow to Mecca 5 times a day...