52. bob from Idaho,

Do we give First ammendment cover as a religion to Voodoo, with its sacrifice of the “goat without horns”? Or to other cults from the past which practice human sacrifice, such as the Aztec faith, or Druidism which used to burn sacrifices in wicker cages? Would our society give religious cover to a Christian sect which held peaceable racial segregation as a central tenet? To ask the question suggests the answer. So why shouold we make such extravagant tolerance of Islam? That was never in the minds of the men who framed the Constitution.