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Re:Montreal is taxing churches (2017) by vowelless on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:10AM (#23956498)
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.

Re:Montreal is taxing churches (2017) by Barrin92 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:29AM (#23956611)
Most 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.

Re:Montreal is taxing churches (2017) by dmitriid on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:19AM (#23956555)
> Americans secularism >> European “secularism”.

You conveniently forget that the church has no qualms about controlling the state in the US

Re:Montreal is taxing churches (2017) by readarticle on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:20AM (#23956561)
Which church?
Re:Montreal is taxing churches (2017) by dmitriid on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:01AM (#23956758)
Mostly 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.

Re:Montreal is taxing churches (2017) by readarticle on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:59AM (#23957090)
I 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.