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Islam has no fundamental First Amendment claims, for the simple reason that it was not written to protect the religion of Islam. Islam is entitled only to the religious liberty we extend to it out of courtesy. While there certainly ought to be a presumption of religious liberty for non-Christian religious traditions in America, the Founders were not writing a suicide pact when they wrote the First Amendment.

Our government has no obligation to allow a treasonous ideology to receive special protections in America, but this is exactly what the Democrats are trying to do right now with Islam.

From a constitutional point of view, Muslims have no First Amendment right to build mosques in America. They have that privilege at the moment, but it is a privilege that can be revoked if, as is in fact the case, Islam is a totalitarian ideology dedicated to the destruction of the United States. The Constitution, it bears repeating, is not a suicide pact. For Muslims, patriotism is not the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the First Amendment is.

Bryan Fischer, Renew America 73 Comments [3/27/2011 5:44:36 AM]
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#1271983
Fundies Make Me Sick

Freedom of Religion means of ALL religions, not just the ones you like, dumbfuck.

3/27/2011 4:06:59 PM

#1272009
Beccs

Why is it that I know more about the Treaty of Tripoli when these fuckwits who actually live in the country don't know about it?

3/27/2011 5:39:52 PM

#1272019
Percy Q. Shunn

Enjoy this old chestnut. I'll be over here, watching your head go all 'splody!


3/27/2011 6:34:35 PM

#1272027
LadyJafaria

@Osiris: I know what fundie Muslims have done in countries they're already in charge of, and yet I, like Doubting Thomas, am still more worried about fundie Christians gaining more control over the U.S.

Not because I think Christians are worse, but because I think it's more plausible. Muslims, fundie or otherwise, can't build a community center without getting teabagged; they're not going to be able to take us over. Fundie Christians on the other hand...well, there have been times they've gotten close.

I prefer to worry about the more plausible thing; if I go hiking in the woods in New England, I'll worry about a timber rattlesnake biting me, not a king cobra.

3/27/2011 7:15:55 PM

#1272028
vaiyt

I feel stupider just by reading this inane pile of dreck god damn.

3/27/2011 7:27:58 PM

#1272090
Reckoner

Bryan Fischer is a fascist asshole.

3/27/2011 11:33:15 PM

#1272101


Bryan Fischer and Andy Schlafly: brothers from another mother?

3/28/2011 12:09:51 AM

#1272170
Mister SPak

Our government has no obligation to allow a treasonous ideology to receive special protections in America, but this is exactly what the Republics are trying to do right now with teabaggery.


3/28/2011 4:51:45 AM

#1272230
nutbunny

OOPSIES! Bryan Fischer made a poopies on the keyboard :-(

3/28/2011 6:30:05 AM

#1272250
GodotIsWaiting4U

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Read that several times and tell me what seems vague about that.

3/28/2011 7:18:26 AM

#1272331
Bryan Fisher

Oh Corporate America,

praised be thy name
thy will happen
my money be yours
thy taxes be low
my labor be never-ending
thy lies be truth
my only vacation be death

3/28/2011 11:19:18 AM

#1272355
Skyknight

Nazani14: I think the problem here is that many people manage to regard philosophy and religion as just alternate names for ideology--they think that just by being human, one is incapable of NOT being an ideologue. That may help explain why Gonzo67 thinks "Muslim" auto-translates to "malicious berserker". I would not doubt that they think ALL fellow RTCs think in almost precisely the same way they do, because nothing ought to be outside the domain of ideology. Therefore, everything gets judged in the same way the ideologist does.

3/28/2011 12:35:17 PM

#1272391
JT


>>Bryan has a Doctorate in Constitutional Law from Patriot University.

Actually the scary thing is he's a Stanford grad.

3/28/2011 1:58:15 PM

#1272547
Murdin

But... I thought True Chrisitanity™ wasn't a religion but a personal relationship with Jesus... does that mean True Christians™ aren't covered by the First Amendment, either ?

3/29/2011 3:27:51 AM

#1272764
Drax

It doesn't matter what your interpretation is of what your constitution's writers may have intended. All that matters is what they actually wrote. And what they actually wrote prohibits any restriction on the free exercise of religion. There's nothing at all to say that this principle applies only to Christianity. If it isn't there in black and white, it isn't part of the amendment, no matter how much you want it to be.


3/29/2011 6:49:57 PM

#1272776
whoanelly

never mind that Islam was a religion founded thousands of years before the US even came about. asshat.

3/29/2011 7:52:33 PM

#1272982


Islam has been around longer than the USA, so how could it be dedicated to the destruction of such?

3/30/2011 8:31:56 AM

#1273481
vaiyt

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, except for Islam because towelheads are icky.

3/31/2011 1:50:26 PM

#1273661
Justanotheratheist

Wrong, from the first sentence. Affording the same rights to other religions as to yours is not a special protection or a "privilege" that can be revoked. It is precisely what "Freedom of Religion" means, you dolt.

4/1/2011 1:48:26 AM

#1274202
Zaydin

If Muslims don't have First Amendment rights to follow their religion or build their centers of worship, neither do Christians. Unless you have some insane logic to justify why one group you don't like doesn't have the same protections you enjoy

4/1/2011 10:57:01 PM

#1274207
Tempus

Freedom of religion.

If Muslims can be prevented from building mosques, Christians can be prevented from building churches.

Thank you, no.

4/1/2011 11:33:33 PM

#1274517
Shadoboy

Why am I not surprised? You have to "interpret" your holy book so it's no wonder you have to "interpret" the constitution.

4/2/2011 7:38:04 PM

#1491185


The first ammendment is explicit and NEVER mentions exceptions. Treat of Tripoli?, now you know where it is.

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