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You've made three posts--including this one, where you quote yourself--saying you want to send all islamists back where they came from. How are we supposed to interpret that except by saying you don't want islam in this country, which can only be done by banning it? AND, by the way, you say this while ignoring the fact that many of these islamists are American-born and raised, so there's nowhere to send them back to--unless you mean kick ALL islamists out of this country, which only further supports the position that you want to ban islam in this country.

Absolutely correct. So do you support those laws and Constitution that protect the islamists from having YOUR viewpoint illegally imposed on them?

Again I agree with you. We Americans as a whole are a lazy lot, who are pacified by and supportive of a government that lulls us into a gluttonous stupor through hand-outs and welfare, causing us to ignore the dangers both within and without because we're focused on what the government should be doing for us.

Look, islam is dangerous; I haven't said otherwise, and won't. My argument has been about the fundamental American foundation of religious practice. For all its pseudo-political and legal system, islam's primary foundation is a religious belief. Thus, you have to make a decision: are we going to continue with our core American value of freedom of religion, or are we going to start down the road of implementing a church-state that doesn't recognize and prohibits other religions--which is what our founding fathers created this great nation to escape from?

If you're going to support freedom of religion, then statements like "send them all back" have no business in your vocabulary. You're free to dislike and even hate islam--but as soon as you move to "send them back" or "kick them out," you've stepped over into banning and religious persecution. (Yes, that's right: those jihadists think WE'RE persecuting them for being islamist)

 

Today is the national "Be Kind to Forum Threads Day" in the spirit of this day you all should be kind to this thread and let it die.

 

I actually like OR. To my knowledge, this is the only thing I disagree with him on.

 

OR, just posted this same email today; for some reason I had not seen your earlier posting.
Mods, just delete mine- thanks!!