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I am forced to admit you hit the nail on the head when you said I don't understand. After reading your statement that no one is forced to practice a religion:

I don't understand why the history books say that the US was founded by a group who no longer wished to be forced to practice a religion.

I don't understand why anyone would say Saddam forced people to practice a religion.

I don't understand why anyone would say the Taliban forced people to practice a religion.

A partial list of what the Taliban declared illegal:

Music, movies and television, computers, picnics, wedding parties, New Year celebrations, any kind of mixed-sex gathering.

Children's toys, including dolls and kites; card and board games; cameras; photographs and paintings of people and animals; pet parakeets; cigarettes and alcohol; magazines and newspapers, and most books. Talking with foreigners. Paper bags.

Penalties: Imprisonment, flogging, or execution. Religious police, part of the "Department for the Propagation of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice," roamed the streets. They carried broken-off car aerials or electrical cabling to whip women whom they decided were not properly observing the regulations.

But I'm sure no one was "forced" to go along with them.

I disagree with this statement when I think of slavery, child porn, and a host of other ideas that people have come up with.