Should Islam be banned?

Here is one of those rare instances when I agree with John Warwick Montgomery. In reference to the case in the Sudan, where British volunteer school teacher Gillian Gibbons was imprisoned for allowing the children to name a teddy bear Muhammad, after one of the pupils in the class, Montgomery commented:

"You'll pardon my opinion on this, but I would outlaw the Muslim
religion on the very same basis that I would outlaw the Aztec
religion. The Aztec religion holds to human sacrifice. I would not
allow that religion to prevail, nor would I allow Islam to prevail,
because the moment that they get into any situation of power, the
result is this kind of thing, which is against human rights and
against human civilization. And I don't care that there's some lovely
Muslims around. I'm sure there were some very fine Aztecs as well."

http://www.kfuoam.org/mp3/Issues7/montgomery.mp3

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