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Wrong again. The Manson Family followers were allowed to continue their devotion to Manson, hell I could start a Church of Manson today and no one would stop me. Oh and the Church of Scientology has very shady past. For starters google "operation snow white" to see some of their criminal activity. However, it is clear to me that you are nothing but an intolerant bigot who refuses to accept anyone's beliefs but his own so I don't know why I talk to you. On the topic of Islam and the West. It is far too complex to boil down to a religious war. We have prompted up dictators over there for decades, we have have exploited their resources, these issues are the root of terrorism not religion. Religion is just a useful tool.Likewise for the muslims. They were not persecuted in reality only in their islamic mind. They believed the West is great satan out there to get them like they believed their prophet was persecuted by the meccans. Did we treat jim jones' "religion" as a legit religion with 1st amendment right? Of course not, otherwise he and his members won't have to live the comfort of their homes and families to go into the foreign jungles for survival. They would have hire a lawyer, even free from some lib law organiztion such as ACLU to defence vigorously their right.
none of the members of the islamic faith not linked to the murders were persecuted also and for their lifetime continued their devotion to the violent ideology of islam, yet islam is treated as a "religion" protected by the first amendment, but manson's helter skelter wasn't.
We may tolerate cults, but not one that advocated violence. That's the difference. Where in Scientology did they call for violence against unbelievers? When was the last time you heard some scientolgists flew a plane full of innocent civilians into the tall buildings full of innocent people? Can't you even differentiate the difference?
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