I must admit I am greatly torn. How do I possibly allow for the seeming suppression of women in Islam with my belief in the e******y of women. I want the 1st Amendment to be sacrosanct--all religions--yet find Islam to violate it by their beliefs. My father was a wife-abuser. Not all the time, mostly Saturday night when they went to the neighborhood bar. It was jealousy: if she danced with, looked at, or mentioned another man, when they got home my father would rough her up. It was not religious but a character defect. I h**ed him for that. I h**e Islam for similar sanctioned practices. But I love the Constitution. Declaring war on Islam seems wrong, and so does not declaring war on Islam. I fear that if Islam is denied 1st Amendment rights or worse, Christianity could be next. Or any religious belief. We are probably decades from Christianity being in such direct peril, yet a precedent with Islam in this growing secular society is a real threat.