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Uncle Sam Is No Imam – NYTimes.com

February 22, 2012 islamoyankee

Uncle Sam Is No Imam – NYTimes.com.

In each of these cases, counterterrorism has put officials on a collision course with Islamic thought and practice — and, perhaps more dangerously, with the Constitution. The First Amendment prohibits government action “respecting an establishment of religion.”

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