America is the product of our Christian heritage. We behave as we behave because we believe what Christians believe. We practice a Christian morality.
You say you are not a Christian? If your forebears are of European extraction, then your parents and grand-parents almost certainly were Christians, and they believed what Christians believe.
You say Christians practice religious persecution. Yes. Some Christians do, but no Christian can justify religious persecution based upon the Bible. That why America has freedom of religion. The people in favor of religious persecution could not and cannot make an effective Bible-base argument for religious persecution.
Unfortunately, Muslims can point to the Koran.
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Is the author of the post above a little paranoid? Maybe. Besides, what could we do? Our laws do not permit us to discriminate against Muslims, and we don’t want to encourage religious persecution. Don’t we have many American citizens who practice Islam? They have not caused any problems. End of discussion, right?
No. We have no reason to allow more people from nations where Islam predominates to immigrate to the United States. Given what is going on in Europe — given what has happened here — why would we want more Muslims to immigrate here? How would that help either us or our children and grandchildren? How would it help our Muslim citizens?
Our immigration laws are part of our foreign policy. Our foreign policy must be about defending American beliefs and American interests. We cannot just assume that other people will respect either our beliefs or our interests, particularly when history provides so much evidence to the contrary.
France has no friends, only interests. — Charles de Gaulle (from here)
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