Yes...
Sometimes this site is scary, I was all set to add a one word comment, but now it would be exactly the same as yours. So now I will just say "OF COURSE".
Yes!
No.
Carthage.
This is a ridiculous column. You can't make Islam illegal, nor do you need to, to win the war with Islam. In fact that's exactly the king of think Osama would love. Drive all Moslems underground.
Even at the height of the Cold War Communism wasn't illegal! The KKK is still not illegal.
What happened to these groups was that the majority turned against them, a minority took on the goal of debunking them and particularly their beliefs, and their own internal contradictions helped bring them down.
BTW: It continues to this day. Morris Dees (like him or hate him) spends his life studying, reporting on and generally making life miserable for the KKK via Klanwatch. Of course he's expanded to include a lot of other groups, some of whom are not hate groups.
Where is Islamwatch to point out the evil that is Islam. Where are the leaders brave enough to Name the Beast, as Reagan did with Communism.
It's pointless to launch into fantasy flights about making Islam illegal when we don't even have one leader with the guts to stand up and state the obvious: Islam is an evil cult founded by a homicial child-molesting maniac. Islam makes no sense. The life of Mohhammed is not something to emulate, it is something to Scorn. The Koran is not the divine word of god. All those people worshipping the stone are deluned.
We haven't even reached clarity of vision. Once everyone saw the KKK as fundamentally wrong (for things like lynchings and abuses of power) it shortly went deep underground, never to return. How many Klansman are there in the USA today? 100? 1000? Not many. That didn't happen with out people speaking out against them, sometimes at personal risk.
May I reiterate my recommendation that all read John Hagee's book, "JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN", which is available for less than $9.00 at your nearest Costco? To learn what is really going on is our sovereign duty to our God, our country and our families.