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And? Your point is? Whatever fears you have should be alleviated by the fact that mosques are usually very obvious. I don't see anything wrong with this, it's better than the untold millions of "First Church of Jesus" churches I see all over the place. They can't ALL be #1.
Freedom of religion is freedom of religion. You Christian conservatives can't have it both ways.
That would be the simplistic view of the subject. I suggest you comment after doing your homework on Political Isalm and how it differs significantly from "religion".
Jihad is a political act and not a religious one. Thus, the OP's post does not have anything to do with the 1st Amendment and the free practice of religion.
Freedom of religion is freedom of religion. You Christian conservatives can't have it both ways.
Freedom of religion - like all freedoms - requires context and distinctions to me meaningful. As a pure abstraction it is a recipe for failure.
If freedom of religion is absolute, and applied equally to all religions, then it simply means the most aggressive, violent, and hostile of those religions will soon come to dominate the others. Take a peek across the Atlantic. It's freedom for the bully on the playground.
Christianity is the foundational religion of western civilization, without which we are completely lost as a society. It also has the advantage of being true. If we can't at least modestlyprefer truth to error, and our own culture to others, then we really don't deserve to be a country at all.
The First Amendment protects the Mosques, just as it protects you and your religious beliefs.
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