[F16Fighter]

"Give me a break! Let's throw a few imams in your neighborhood and try to convert a few Christians to Islam. I'ld like to see YOUR reaction then."

And of course, the legacy of our Founding Fathers, AND the promotion of religious tolerance was founded by Muslims?? Your analogy fall flat, pardner.

Quite frankly, if NOT for a bunch of Protestants from England -- NOT Catholics, Muslims, NOR Jews -- the system of liberty we ALL enjoy today would not have come to fruition in the first place.

BTW -- HEY, WELCOME TO AMERICA -- the land of FREE SPEECH and choice to REJECT the message of those you desire to censor.

[BrooklynGOP]

And of course, the legacy of our Founding Fathers, AND the promotion of religious tolerance was founded by Muslims?? Your analogy fall flat, pardner.

You missed my point.

[Campion]

Quite frankly, if NOT for a bunch of Protestants from England -- NOT Catholics, Muslims, NOR Jews -- the system of liberty we ALL enjoy today would not have come to fruition in the first place.

Actually, the first community to practice religious tolerance in North America was founded by Catholics ... English Catholic recusants ... St. Mary's Towne, in what is today Maryland.

It lasted only a few months before the king's soldiers stopped by to defend truth, justice, and the Anglican way, and torched the place. The proto-Baptist Roger Williams founded the first permanently tolerant settlement, Rhode Island, about a year or two later.

The English Protestants you refer to, of course, were almost all non-conformists of one sort or another. Mainstream English Protestantism wasn't religiously tolerant at all; that's why some of the colonies were founded. Massachusetts for the Puritans, Rhode Island for the breakaway Puritans who are the ancestors of modern Baptists, Maryland for the Catholics, etc.