islam is not a religion.  It's a criminal code.

     Here in this great country, America upholds Freedom of Religion.  However, there are other Rights that apply that must not be violated if the government is going to leave one alone.  Among these are the Right to One's Own Life, the Right to One's Own Liberty, the Right to One's Own Property, and the Right to Pursue One's Own Rational Happiness.

So, when it comes to religion and how it relates to the law, it must be asked what the religion in question advocates.  To analyze one example, pick islam.  The koran preaches: death to non-muslims (violating the Right to One's Own Life), political taboos and government punishments against the exercising of non-muslim activities (violating the Right to One's Own Liberty), the coercive extortion of all of a non-muslim's property upon religious conquest (violating the Right to One's Own Property), and the subjection of all to sharia law (violating the Right to Pursue One's Own Rational Happiness).

As you can see, islam is not a religion in the sense that the Founding Fathers were referring to one in the Constitution.  Anyone can buy a koran and see what kind of vice is spewed from its pages, and the crimes that are encouraged.  Indeed, how can common sense conclude that a mandate to: murder, capture, steal and oppress Americans be held sacred by our laws?

islam is not a religion.  It's a criminal code.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind