Maxine Waters wrote:Religious freedom is a core American value. A religious test on immigration could not be more fundamentally un-American.
I don't think religious beliefs that say Allah commands us to kill people who don't convert Islam should be protected under religious freedom.
There is a fairly well established and supported secular standard in US law that places a barrier between religious belief and criminal activity in the name of religious belief. It's remarkable in some ways in that the US has long established that belief does not justify an action that would otherwise be against the law of the land regardless of the belief system. See Reynolds v. US for example.
So, basically what you fear is ridiculous. People of all faiths are entitled to believe the most horrendous of fates await their fellow human beings, and that some divine being is going to show up any day and make the oceans red with the blood of <insert divine entitity>'s enemies. They can believe drawing certain pictures, performing certain medical procedures, using certain herbs or medicines are good/bad/necessary. But insofar as a belief becomes action and that action is against the law, the person will be judged and prosecuted according to the law.
