Freedom of Religion in America: The Muslim Debate

To make this to the point, freedom of religion in America boils down to this and this is what the law that states religious freedom was deemed to mean by the Supreme Court. I will only sum it up as it would take pages and pages to explain fully.

If a religion does not harm anyone or anything, disrupt the lives of those around them, break any existing laws or laws passed in the future, does not force itself upon another, ordain violence or death/murder, involve any human or animal sacrifice, and so on with more guidelines outlining things of that sort then you are free to worship as you please in the United States and the religion in question has a chance at becoming an “official” religion stated in the laws for the Nation. It is pretty simple.

If the Muslim religion and practitioners meet the standards of the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the land both outwardly and privately then I am not against it being practiced. If it does not and the fears, for once, reign true then I am against it. It is really simple where my stance comes from.

Satanism – a legal religion in the United States. However, if the Satanic religious practitioners were practicing one way in the public eye, let’s say no outward human or animal sacrifice and no destroying of graves, etc., yet privately were practicing the way they are rumored to practice and doing those very things they swore not to do when they became an official religion then their “official religion” status would be revoked by the United States government and Supreme Court.

I’m not intending to pick on or compare Satanism and Muslims. I am only giving examples and hypothetical situations to make my point about the United States debating whether the Muslim community has the right to practice it in America. As for what is behind this debate, mainly Sharia Law, please read it for yourself and make your own decision. This is only the way I see it as an individual person practicing a minority religion in America: Wicca. My personal religion cannot compare to either of these religions and I do not intend to make a statement that it does. I only say this to say also that I know what being in a “minority” yet legal belief system feels like. I am not nor do I intend to condemn any other religion and I expect the same in return.

The testimony of this one Muslim did trouble me because I have read Sharia Law myself or else I would not have attempted to form any type of opinion out of ignorance. Where is this going? We will all have to wait and see.