While we have every right to believe a religion is evil and say so, some here on FR sound as if they think Islam should be outlawed. You have to understand that even if a group of Muslims believe they should kill us, they have not broken any laws until they conspire to actually do it. We can fight their bad beliefs with speech, friendship, righteous anger, whatever....but as soon as we cross the line into dictating what someone can and cannot believe we will have lit the torch that will destroy all religious freedom.
Very well said. Here's a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn that speaks to the same issue:
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being and who is willing to destroy his (or her) own heart?" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
While I am very concerned about the Radical Islamic threat to our nation, I think that you are right to point out that we should not pretend that we are completely pure ourselves, and need to guard against the destruction of religious freedom and the First Amendment....
This is not an easy issue to grapple with, and we must resist the (very strong) temptation to make this a "black and white" issue.