re: #22 Sharmuta

I think the problem is that some Americans think these are great ideas. I have even read Americans calling for banning islam here, and they hold up wilders as an example. And these are the sorts of people I meant in my #6- they fail to understand that a government that could take away the right to practice a religion from one group could just as easily take that right away from other groups- including them.

I think there is another danger in the movement to deny that Islam is a religion.

Its an end run around our freedom of religion principles by declaring that it is not a religion, and not covered by nations traditions and laws concerning Religious freedoms.