As I noted up above, there are Islamists and Islamic Terrorists, around the world, who do insist on that. And I noted that I am against them. Everyone in the USA should be against those Islamists and Islamic Terrorists, without a doubt.
Here in the USA, the Mosques are required, under law, to not engage in Political Activities (actually, this applies to all churches of any religion) ... or else their tax exempt status will be revoked.
The Mosques here in the USA know they can have that tax exempt status revoked ... so all someone has to do is report them. You can go in there and pretend to be a Muslim (anyone can do that without any danger) and it’s easy to see if they are engaged in Political Activites, instead of prayer services and religious activities. There has been no Mosque that anyone has found them in violation of the IRS laws (or the rules and regulations).
HOWEVER, there have been Muslim “charitable organizations” that have had their tax exempt status revoked, and in fact, there was a famous trial where one was completely shut down and the ones running it were convicted and jailed! It does happen - with a very few - but not Mosques that I’ve seen reported.
But it could easily happen with any particular Mosque if they were violating the law. Even Christian churches and organizations have been shut down like that for violations of the law, so it’s not limited to Muslims. The law in the USA applies equally to all the religious entities.
And going to the term Islamist (and Islamic Terrorist) ... you’ll find that intelligence services put them at anywhere from 10-25% of the Muslim population in the world, depending on what intelligence service makes the estimate. I would probably put it at 15% ... so those guys are real and they are extremely dangerous and we certainly don’t want them.
And the U.S. is on the lookout for these guys inside the country and they have captured quite a few of them here. I’ve reported in many instances of these guys and their cases. We need to get rid if every one of those law-breakers and criminals, whenever we find them!
But all that really doesn’t affect the tax exempt status of a Mosque, unless that particular Mosque is emgaged in Political Activites.
Star I get your point.
Here is mine very simply: If found that we can indeed revoke Islams status, it will be a black eye for them. It will diminish their status.
They will loss face.
Think on this.