[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Please expand and deconstruct my statement, RR.
Just calling the argument a strawman doesn’t really make it a strawman, but...I am, like our illustrious POTUS...all ears! (as well as knowing the “hard” definition” of rhetoric’s strawman).

[RoosterRedux]

The fact that Islam is both a religion AND a system of government does not mean that all systems of government are therefore religions.

That is a type of logical fallacy.

[RoosterRedux]

Here's the reason I believe islam is a religion (in addition to being a government system).

I believe that there is a metaphysical/spiritual world wherein there is a God, and gods, and angels, and demons. I believe that there are vast unseen forces of good and evil.

If I didn't believe this, I would see religion merely as social constructs that people invent to give order to their lives. In fact, I think some people to use religion merely to give order and meaning to their lives anyway (i.e. they don't actually worship God).

That said, believing as I do, I see great evil at work in islam. And I, rightly or wrongly, see that evil as a product of spiritual forces and those who are influenced by those evil spiritual forces.

In my worldview, Allah is the equivalent of the Judeo-Christian Satan.