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For the same reason that I urged a vigorous defense of the 1st Amendment in my previous post - regardless of the other person's religious inclinations - I would urge that this discussion get back on track. TO ME, that track appears to be the threat posed to otherwise peaceful people, who don't always agree about all things, by the particular scourge of (for lack of a better term) "Islamofascism". I define "Islamofascism" as that particular movement which is currently engaged in attempting to dominate the world with a fascistic worldview, under the cloak of a religion much loved by billions of mostly peaceful people, and willing to perform any degree of savagery in that religion's name.

We should avoid, for the purposes of staying on the right side of forum rules, the relative merits or demerits of entire religions relative to one another.

Somehow, in all this anti-Muslim fervor, you've got to find room for the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of religion. I am an evangelical Christian who finds great fault in Islamic theology, but will lay down my life for the right of a Muslim to peacefully practice his religion here.....as do more than one Muslim members of THIS forum....who are also pledged to protect my 1st Amendment right to freedom of religion.

There's a very good reason why the 2nd Amendment comes right after the 1st; but don't lose sight of the fact that the 1st IS first.....also for very good reasons....