[BenLurkin]

Making Islam "illegal" is unworkable and an affront to western ideals.

We do, however, need to eradicate aggressive Islam and aggressive Islamists and that may be a very many people.

Whoever's left will be convinced that the submission of Islam means submission to the West.

[farlander]

Hm, and how do you propose to do this ? Especially with the ones that are in our midst ? With citizenship ?

There are many dark pseudo-religeons adherence to which is banned. Is it legal to sacrifice people ? Islam should be treated as such.

[Paulus Invictus]

"We do, however, need to eradicate aggressive Islam and aggressive Islamists and that may be a very many people."

We would appreciate your ideas as to how this might be accomplished in the face of growing Muslim belief that jihad is their only answer to the West and Israel? Also, how do we respond to the sleeper Muslims cells already in the US that are potential centers of the great impending jihad americana?

[B-Chan]

Making Islam "illegal" is unworkable and an affront to western ideals.

Having someone fly a plane into an office tower full of people is also an affront to western ideals.

In the end, the only "civil right" that counts is the right to keep breathing. The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.

[Charlespg]

Making Islam "illegal" is unworkable and an affront to western ideals

I disagree, as I have said before a strong augment can be made for islam being a threat to public safety and order.
There is no constitutional right to practice human sacrifice, and the same can be said for a cult that endorses murder of nonbelievers attacks and rapes of women going a Muslim area without burkas or veils ect,threatens riots when they don't get their way and demands total submission by the west to their fascist thinking, needs to be banned. Finding politicians and courts with the backbone to do so is another matter

[Lochlainnach]

Making Islam illegal is ridiculous. Are we in "1984," or even "V for Vendetta?" You can't outlaw a religion and think that it will go away-- take, say, two Apostles and then multiply the number of followers exponentially until there are nine zeros behind the one's digit.

Are we going to have anti-Islamic task forces invading and pillaging the homes of the numerous amounts of peaceful Muslims who have lived in this country for a number of years...there are over a billion Muslims in the world today, many of which are Sunni and do not live in the Middle East, or by Sharia law. Or better yet, what happens if the more radical elements of Islam (Wahhabis), a group that has developed a highway to heaven for suicide bombers,goes underground, making it even harder to establish who is doing what?

Muslims cannot come to a country and flout the established laws for their own...this is not "religious" freedom, and it will not stand. Extremist Islam is a problem...ask Salman Rushdie, who had a Fatwa put on his life by the Ayatollah, who then died a few years later, leaving the Fatwa open. America, as well as Europe, will and should continue its fight to maintain its economic and religious freedom against a force that, at best, wants to implement its own strict code of law on a world population that for centuries has not wanted it; at worst, wants to destroy the West--the Dajjal--to usher in the end of times and everlasting paradise with all the fleshly compensation a pious Muslim man(on earth at least) could want.

But, c'mon, tell me we've learned at least a couple things about gov't vs. religion in the last two thousand years.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"Making Islam "illegal" is unworkable and an affront to western ideals."

If Mohammad was alive today in America he would be arrested and tried for pedophilia, rape, slavery, murder, domestic abuse, and armed robbery. Probably fraud too, for passing himself off as a prophet. A most remarkable messenger for "Allah."

The aim of Islam, as stated by the koran, is subjugation of the rest of the world, by persuasion (lying if necessary) or intimidation, violence, and death, if necessary. The latter resort to intimidation and violence is what qualifies Islam as "illegal." The methods of Islam in spreading its "Creed" are the methods of a criminal organization, not a religion. Since these violent methods are set forth in their "Charter," the koran, and that will not change, we should consider it a Ricco act organization, not a religion.

[ridesthemiles]

Whoever's left will be convinced that the submission of Islam means submission to the West.""

I believe you are dangerously naive, along with most other Americans.

[ArmyTeach]

What we can do is get off the PC road to nowhere and hold Muslims in American accountable. There are laws against hate speech. Use those laws against them at every opportunity. There are laws against calling for the overthrow of our government - for example "Death to America." Nail them. If they advocate the death of the President, the FBI should be all over them. There are laws against inciting to violence. Close down every mosque where violence is preached. Instead of treating them with kid gloves, bring the full force of the law against them. If they want to live here they must be made to understand that they are expected to be good citizens.

[finnigan2]

"Making Islam "illegal" is unworkable and an affront to western ideals."

- I agree that making Islam illegal is unworkable and would only result in a bloodbath for Christians caught in those Islamic hellholes which operate under fanatical mullahs and Sharia laws.
However, if there is another 9/11 type atrocity visited on the US, I can easily see laws passed which would permit the immediate deportation of any Muslims who expressed support for or defended Islamic violence.