Sanity With Regards to Islam

SEE HERE Herman Cain isn't rolling over and playing dead on the question of Islamic religious rights. What he's doing is asking for sanity and discernment. Islam is not like the Judeo Christian religions. It is a religion that has always been spread by force and which counsels suppression of its adversaries to a secondary status where they are disproportionately taxed and generally have fewer rights than their neighbors. In addition it imposes its own form of law "sharia" which is a code embodied in the Koran and the Hadith. Thus the religion is composed of two parts, the parts that deal with worship of God and parts that are political, repressive, incite to suppression of one's neighbors if they are not Muslim, and imposition of an external law. These are matters that clearly bring the religion into conflict with the secular state. Islam is inherently in opposition to much of what America stands for, so it isn't clear how we should react. Just ignoring the implications while the issue grows larger and more difficult to manage seems like the wrong way to go. Herman Cain is at least raising and confronting the issue. The people opposing him are just putting their heads in the sand like a bunch of ostriches.