The First Amendment only protects Christians?

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As I know many of you don't believe this because well how can you get that from an amendment that clear as day says the following bolded for those that might of missed it. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." So now you are most likely moved on to the second question why would I post something like this? Well it turns out that one Bryan Fischer believes that it is not a right but a privilage to follow any religion besides Christianity in the United States. "The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. They were making no effort to give special protections to Islam. Quite the contrary. We actually at the time were dealing with our first encounters with jihad in the form of the Barbary Pirates, which is why Jefferson bought a copy of the Koran. He was told by the Bey of Tripoli that Islam requires Muslims to rob, kill and pillage infidel Christians wherever they find them. Jefferson naturally found that hard to believe, so he bought a copy of the Koran to read it for himself. Sure enough, it's right in there, in the 109 verses of the Koran that call for violence against the infidels." Maybe he forgot the whole part where we declare that the United States is in no way a Christian nation while a large number may be Christian. That the war was against the acts of these men and not the religion for which they follow. "Islam has no fundamental First Amendment claims, for the simple reason that it was not written to protect the religion of Islam. Islam is entitled only to the religious liberty we extend to it out of courtesy. While there certainly ought to be a presumption of religious liberty for non-Christian religious traditions in America, the Founders were not writing a suicide pact when they wrote the First Amendment." Okay lets see here we already covered that you have no idea what you are talking about must of forgot the whole part where Congress is restricted from making laws with the establishment of Religion. "Our government has no obligation to allow a treasonous ideology to receive special protections in America, but this is exactly what the Democrats are trying to do right now with Islam." Baseless to say the least. "From a constitutional point of view, Muslims have no First Amendment right to build mosques in America. They have that privilege at the moment, but it is a privilege that can be revoked if, as is in fact the case, Islam is a totalitarian ideology dedicated to the destruction of the United States. The Constitution, it bears repeating, is not a suicide pact. For Muslims, patriotism is not the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the First Amendment is." Are you kidding so the only religion that get any say in the United States is Christianity? So no Buddhism, No atheist, No Hindu's? Below are the organizations he represents. American Family Association or American Family Radio http://www.care2.com/causes/the-first-amendment-only-applies-to- christians.html http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/110324 So I think this guy needs to read the Constitution before he goes spewing something completely stupid on the Internet for his own good. I mean really it isn't hard to understand what the First Amendment protects. I mean it is really as simple as saying that it protects the free practice of ones religion as long as that practice of the religion doesn't threaten the well being or the freedom of others to practice there own religion and Islam isn't attacking us people who have twisted the words of their religion to fit what they want it to are attacking us. But then again I am a Libertarian. So what do you guys think? Am I right? What does the First Amendment protect in terms of Religion? S