New York Times Hits “Disturbing Trend” of Seeing Islam as “Not a Religion”

Jihad Watch ^ | September 27th 2018 | Robert Spencer

[Jacquerie]

Merriam Webster defines “religion” as “a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices.” Islam certainly qualifies as a religion by that definition. Religions profess to connect human beings to the divine. Islam professes to do that. At the same time, however, it is also a political system that is authoritarian, supremacist, discriminatory, expansionist, violent, and aggressive.

In reality, Islamic law’s political aspects contradict Constitutional principles and American freedoms in numerous particulars, including its denial of the freedom of speech, the institutionalized discrimination against women, non-Muslims, and other groups, its death penalty for apostasy from Islam and for homosexual activity, and more. At a certain point there is going to have to be a national discussion about whether religious freedom grants Muslims the right to break other laws, or whether the aspects of Sharia that contradict American law are unwelcome in the United States. Asma T. Uddin and the New York Times are trying to foreclose upon that discussion by muddling the issue.

Islam has always been political. Its political aspect has always been considered intrinsic to its nature.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yup. Christianity does. Judaism does. Buddhism does. Mohammadanism ? Nope.