Allowing the federal government broad authority to declare professed religions as ‘not actually religions’ is about the stupidest way I can think of to handle Islam.
I think (correct me if I’m wrong) that the people behind Gates of Vienna are Europeans. If they were more familiar with our government, the steady erosion of constitutional rights via judicial activism and the hostility of the elites to the Christian faith, they’d know that 99 times out of 100, any such power would be used against Christians, not Muslims.
The Constitution is in a sorry state as it is. Conservatism is about shoring up what’s left of it, maybe restoring it as far as we can to its original state (hope springs eternal). I leave poking holes in the Constitution to expand state power to the other side.
I believe that section "Congress shall make no laws respecting and establishment of religion" is very badly misinterpreted and misunderstood.
It does not make all religions "equal" in the eyes of the law, it simply precludes the Federal Government from doing what the states had done routinely in that era; Establishing State Religions.
State Religions were accepted in 1787, and it was precisely because they were that the Federal Government needed to stay out of the established religion business. You see, the various official state religions then in existence were differing denominations of Christianity, and there was no good reason for the Coalition government of diverse Christian states to wade into denominational differences at the Federal level.
It was simply accepted as a given that the Federal Government would be non-denominational Christian.
People don't notice, but the Constitution specifically exempts the President from working on Sunday, and it also acknowledges Jesus Christ as "Our Lord" at the end of the main body of the document.
The Constitution isn't religiously neutral, it is biased toward's Christianity. It's just neutral in regards to variations on Christian Doctrine.
Islam was never meant to be accommodated.
Patriotism Populism Tradition wrote: " I think (correct me if I’m wrong) that the people behind Gates of Vienna are Europeans."
Blog authors, Dymphna and Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna blog are citizens of the USA, however they do carry a lot of global news on their site and have an international army of devoted translators notable for their "Rosetta Stone" articles.
The Baron and Dymphna are about as conservative as they come. May I suggest spending a wee bit more time exploring the Gates of Vienna blog prior to presuming otherwise.