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"Because it's a serious worldview that is based on worship of a deity, has over a billion adherents, and has withstood the test of time....But let me ask you, how would you define the difference between a cult and a religion? "

Well at one time the inhabitants of earth thought it was flat so should we still believe it.

To your last point read the koran and if it is not a hate manual in your mind then no amount of reason can ever change your opinion.

When the rules set forth in a group's governing document call for killing, enslaving Jews and Christians then it is a good bet that it is time to call these bastards what they are and stop protecting them with the 1st Amendment.

Unfortunately there are way too many that believed in a flat earth and there are still too many that believe Is-Slime is a ROP. It is a hate cult pure and simple and deserves zero 1st Amendment protection.

Well at one time the inhabitants of earth thought it was flat so should we still believe it.

I'm afraid I don't understand the relevance of that.

To your last point read the koran and if it is not a hate manual in your mind then no amount of reason can ever change your opinion. When the rules set forth in a group's governing document call for killing, enslaving Jews and Christians then it is a good bet that it is time to call these bastards what they are and stop protecting them with the 1st Amendment.

I don't disagree. As I said, religions can be evil. Religions have called for human sacrifice and extermination of other religions throughout history. Freedom of religion does not require us to accept any actions their religion calls for. Freedom of religion does not protect criminal conspiracies. Just because Islam is a religion, does not mean it is not also a hostile political ideolgy and a gigantic criminal conspiracy. The first ammendment does not require us to tolerate that in our midst.