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And I refer you back to #896.

Arbitration is a voluntary act, under the law, that doesn't effect anyone but the two parties involved. As Oliver Wendell Holmes sad, "your right to swing ends where my nose begins." In this case, no one else is involved. We allow other religious minorities these considerations and their beliefs have not overrun the country and so long as Islam remains a tiny fraction of the American population (with devout Islam even less and radical Islam even less than that) the comparison to Africa (or even to London) is not really applicable.

Furthermore, besides the fact that law-abiding Muslim citizens are entitled to the same rights as their fellow Americans (Orthodox Jews, etc), there's another upside to doing right by them. Thats the fact that it shoots a nice big hole in the extremist's case against America and democracy. Moderation grows and killing the really bad folks gets easier.