[Grut]

It doesn't matter if the local Muslims are talking up Sharia and the Ummah or whatever, they still have a constitutional right to peaceably assemble to do it. And while a building permit can be denied to any religious group for any neutral reason, it can't be denied because the town fathers don't like them. That's all settled law, and Cain is just making a fool of himself if he's saying differently.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

No they don’t. See post 17 for a counter example.

Don’t be fooled into thinking the constitution is a suicide pact.

[Salvavida]

I don't think President Adams would hold your point of view; and neither do many here. Common sense tells us the U.S. Constitution never intended a religion hostile to our existance is on equal terms:

John Quincy Adams on Islam:

"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, [.....] Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST.- TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.... Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant ... While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men."

Just sayin.