What is a "relogion"

Submitted by martin kessler (United States), Aug 16, 2010 at 15:33

I don't know why it is so difficult to understand Islam, to be properly understood, is not a religion, in the pedestrian concept of the word "religion." Islam is not a religion in the sense of a spiritual view explaining of mankind's existence in the Universe. Islam is a political proselytizing world view in which their "religion", to come to the point, is to kill you unless you adhere to their "preaching," Here I use a word -- preaching --which further shows the cause of misunderstanding. Preachers preaching death to everyone as "religious" oratory is politics in disguise. Islam is politics. It is not a religion. We accept its pretension of being labeled a religion at our peril. Notwithstanding, if, to be kind --or not fools -- we continue to believe the argument that a world view termed Islam can be accepted as a "religion" deserving of constitutional protection , as in ordinary accepted connotation, we will all soon be drinking Kool Aid.

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