Is religious conformaty another form of fascism

Subject: Is religious conformity another form of fascism.

How do we differentiate an individual from a group. Even more importantly, how can we tarnish a group because of the actions of a few individuals.
The second question to ask is how individual is an individual, can anyone be an individual living in a society who are largely made up of a specific group.
President Trumps exclusion of Muslims coming to America from certain, predominantly Muslim countries carries the argument that since there is an Islamic war going on, minimising the opportunity for fighters to gain entry into America makes America safer. During our war with Germany, people from Germany were prevented from coming in and the ones here already were placed in camps.
The opposing argument is that by integrating and socialising, it acts as an soothing poultice, minimising the actions to those of the active terrorist (who is dealt with by security intelligence) whilst converting the mass to some semblance of uniform conformity.
Unfortunately the elephant in the room is religion. The 'individual' coming from certain countries, along with his pluralistic brothers and sisters are conditioned not by what we would call common sense or even a call to humanity but are rather pray to the pulpit.
We must also understand the difference between the Christian Church and its call for 'inclusiveness'  and the 'exclusiveness' of the Muslim religion with its fundamentalist  underpinning.
There are many countries in the Middle East where brutality is the norm as punishment for what is deemed religious slights which include adultery and theft. There is no comparable strictures these days in Christianity although in the not too distant past the Church was as much to blame for the savagery it inflicted on a person accused of stepping out of the religious footstep.
When we see paraded in front of us the plight of someone caught at an airport unable to return to America, we place ourselves in his or her situation and feel their frustration. Our media are experts at whipping up the masses to protest but when did the media last set out to deliver us a picture of the stoning to death of a woman in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. When did we last hear a politician stand up in Parliament and berate the Mullas for condoning such savagery. When did we see on our screens the removal of the hand that had stolen. Where are the prison reformists who see in our jails, harsh conditions but as a collective group, fail to rail against the conditions in the Turkey or Mexican prisons, not a word. We are full of blind spots, full of excuses.
Could the process of thinking or alternately not thinking be the cause of our problem.
Every time we think, (properly consider) some aspect or other of what is happening around us, if we are honest the more we think the more we bring in extraneous factors which alter our vision. Thinking and travelling to discover other ways of living and thinking has a beneficial effect, even if it clouds our original perspective and makes us change our mind.
The mind is the crucible of thought and it is this precious thing, our mind which sets us apart from other living things.

But what if the mind is whipped into conformity, political conformity or religious conformity. In the former we speak of 'fascism' an authoritarian form of governance much derided for its brutality and the way it seeks to achieve its aims through strict obedience. Religion is another form of 'fascism'. It seeks governance through strict obedience. The mind is subordinated, having to accept some pretty unusual concepts, unchallenged by the faithful. The manipulation of the mind has some terrible historical precedents. Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, to name two but I would claim that religious teaching with its ultimate "fear of damnation" is but a fascist tool to obtain control. If this power is true then the "group" so afflicted are fodder in the hands of the manipulators.

If religion stays benign, dealing with the social aspects of our lives I have no problem but if it were to flourish into a political organ then the danger to the non religious sector of humanity (perhaps 50%) is clear and be it the individual terrorist or the Mullah in the pulpit, those of us who are neither need to be aware of their significance.