If we just follow the Constitution, no preferences will be given to Islam or any other religion. People have freedom of speech, to say what they thin, and there is separation of church and state.
However, the Constitution is being assaulted constantly by prominent politicians, judges, and even by the Supreme Court itself. About the latter, a good book to read is “The Dirty Dozen” which is about Supreme Court decisions which undermine the Constitution.
Islams’ deleterious effects on freedom is not because it is a religion. It is because it is PRIMARILY a competing ideology, a complete inflexible system of GOVERNANCE called SHARIA LAW that regulates the practice of religion ruthtlessly. We are suicidally oriented to giving it equal treatment “as any other religion”...it is not any other religion. It is a governmental system dedicated to obliterating any other governmental system coming from the mind of man....meaning our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. THere is NO separation of government and religion in Islam. Sharia law is the state in Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. Why do we ignorantly ignore the 1400 year history of this fact? Both parties in this country have extensive, interwoven relations with both sides of Islam....it may prove fatal to our existence as a Constitutional Republic. A link to the legitimization of ‘radical’ Islam connections occurring during the first day of the Dem Convention in Denver: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/08/dnc-interfaith-event-reaches-out-to.html#readfurther