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Islam meets every single legal, constitutional and dictionary definition for a religion.

I agree it is not JUST a religion, but it doesn’t cease to be a religion because it incorporates legal and political aspects. By this definition the Catholicism of the Middle Ages wasn’t a religion. It was every bit as entwined with all other aspects of life as Islam is today.

What those who hold this position are doing, I think, is assuming, without any justification, that “religion” can or should be redefined to exclude “bad religions.”

I think that’s just silly. Religions, like any other aspect of human existence, can be good or bad. Christianity and Buddhism generally good. Islam, Aztec and Thuggee, generally bad.

This POV has a disturbing side, since it often seems to be aimed at removing constitutional protection from Islam. This means, of course, that some government agency or court will be given the power to designate some religions as protected under 1A and other not.

I think that’s a very bad idea indeed. Why couldn’t they make a determination that religions that promote “hate” be no longer protected?

Why couldn’t they make a determination that religions that promote “hate” be no longer protected? Which precisely is what is happening with respect to any Christian who refuses to bow down to the gay agenda. Islam is simply a murderous cult. The Q'uran is an abominable rip-off of the Bible compiled by the early Church. The Muslims who cut off the heads of "non-believers" are the ones practicing true Islam. The so-called "moderate Muslims" are actually apostates from the true trunk of Islam as practiced by the prophet mohammed.

If in fact it meets the denitiin of religion, i dont know. I dont know much about the inquisition, but i agree that periid of time was not good pr for the Catholic church.

But that was a different time. People thought the earth was flat.

In our curren atmosphere of banning things that aren’t good for you, one would think Islam would be at the top of that list. But, somehow, in the warped liberal mindset, it hasn’t made the link st. It has however made the protected class list.

Im going now to beat my head against the wall.