‘Shifting Religious Climate’
1st October 2010
One thing totally missing from this discussion is the fact that Islam is radically different from every other religion in the U.S. It is not a tenet of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, or Vedantism (or Sikh or Bah’ai or Jain or whatever) to subject everyone in the community to their religious law, by force if necessary. That is a tenet of Islam, and so to extend to Islam the same tolerance as has been traditionally (and harmlessly) extended to other religions is both ignorant and stupid.
To refuse to defend a community against a clear and present danger to that community is treason; to actively prevent others from defending themselves is, if possible, even worse.