Islam and Religious Freedom in America

Below is an interesting blog post on Islam and building of a mosque near the World Trade Center at Alas, a blog:

For all our nation’s many faults, there is one thing that our country got inarguably right, and that is freedom of religion. From the founding of the republic, religious tests for office have been banned, religious freedoms supported. The right to worship as one pleases, free from government coercion, is one of the cornerstone liberties of our nation, one equal to the freedom to speak and write as one pleases. By allowing all Americans to seek out God (or not) in the manner of their choosing, the Constitution has recognized that the freedom to profess one’s faith is, at its heart, one of the most important freedoms one can exercise.

Related posts:

  1. How China taught Islam to an American Blogger in Xinjiang
  2. Non-Muslim fasts during Ramadan
  3. Documentaries on Islam
  4. Is alcohol forbidden in Islam? (Free-Minds.org)
  5. It’s all relative…

About tenobliss
An American of Japanese ancestry, Kevin Miller was introduced to Islam by Kazakh Muslims in 1999 while working in Karatau, Kazakhstan with the U.S. Peace Corps. Kevin is deeply influenced by the mystical Sufis of Central Asia, Zen Buddhists of Japan and Vietnam, and the Hesychasts of the Eastern Orthodox religion. Kevin currently resides in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, where he focuses on the IT industry and Education.

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