Islams’ deleterious effects on freedom is not because it is a religion. It is because it is PRIMARILY a competing ideology, a complete inflexible system of GOVERNANCE called SHARIA LAW that regulates the practice of religion ruthtlessly. We are suicidally oriented to giving it equal treatment “as any other religion”...it is not any other religion. It is a governmental system dedicated to obliterating any other governmental system coming from the mind of man....meaning our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. THere is NO separation of government and religion in Islam. Sharia law is the state in Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. Why do we ignorantly ignore the 1400 year history of this fact? Both parties in this country have extensive, interwoven relations with both sides of Islam....it may prove fatal to our existence as a Constitutional Republic. A link to the legitimization of ‘radical’ Islam connections occurring during the first day of the Dem Convention in Denver: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/08/dnc-interfaith-event-reaches-out-to.html#readfurther
I think the word is “theocracy”. Islam is a religion, and Islamic countries do not distinguish between government and religion. We do.