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The First Amendment strongly prevents something like this in the US. There is no way the state can control a religious organization here and that’s a good thing
by vowelless 6y ago
The First Amendment strongly prevents something like this in the US. There is no way the state can control a religious organization here and that’s a good thing. Americans secularism >> European “secularism”.
Islamic extremism in your country is not due to lack of state control of their mosques. It’s how you have treated generations of Islamic immigrants (Turks on work visas, no citizenships, open borders with lots of “refugees”, etc). Of course they will make parallel societies. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
- dmitriid 6y ago> Americans secularism >> European “secularism”. You conveniently forget that the church has no qualms about controlling the state in the US
- readarticle 6y agoWhich church?
- dmitriid 6y agoMostly Southern Baptists and Evangelicals. Have you been blind to politics in the past few years? From forcing intelligent design into schools to full assault against planned parenthood etc.
- readarticle 6y agoI don’t live in, or generally care about the deep south where the Southern Baptist and Evangelical churches apparently share control of the state, so in a sense yes. I thought you were talking about the USA as a whole, my mistake.
- Barrin92 6y agoMost Turks in Germany are citizens (requirements are if anything laxer than in the US), and there's practically no religious extremism among Turks, so that's just a wrong claim. And actually extremism among Turks is absent for the very reason I outlined above. In Turkey there's a long tradition of either religious integration in the state in the Ottoman era which had a strong scholastic tradition, or laicism under Atatürk, so there was very little room for sectarianism. And yes, a lot of extremism is present among refugees, but that just proves the point, where do refugees originate from? Countries with failing state authority.