Actually, it sounds pretty truthful.
Mormonism and Islam are very similar: syncretist theocratic cults based on the dream of a charismatic founder and having the goal of territorial and political domination. We’re just lucky that the Mormons, faced with growing opposition by other Americans and under pressure to renounce some of their more egregious practices in exchange for statehood, split into a more moderate group (the LDS church in SLC) and lots of smaller radical groups, most of whose members only commit personal crimes against other Mormons (the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart was one of these cultists).
The mainstream LDS church is busy remaking itself as an evangelical Christian church, which is fine by me and a big relief to us all.
On the other hand, maybe the territorial claims of Mohammed’s followers and those of Joseph Smith’s followers would have come into conflict and the Muslim problem would have been solved once and for ever.
If you try hard enough, you can make anything 'seem' similar to anything else. I've had people on FR point to Inquisition and/or Crusades and say that proves Christians are terrorists just as much as Islamics. Do you believe that to be true?
(syncretist, love that!) Islam is an evangelical faith as well, isn’t it?
Huh?
If you want more in depth history on this first terrorist act by a religious cult on American soil get this book.
Life in Utah or The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism: Being an Expose of the Secret Rites and Ceremonies of the Latter Day Saints written in 1870
With a full and authentic history of polygamy and the Mormon sect from its origin to the present time. Beadle, author and editor of the Salt Lake Reporter, was unfriendly to the Mormon Church, a passion that becomes evident in his writings, including this volume. Contents: History from the Founding of Nauvoo till 1843; Mormon Difficulties and Death of the Prophet; Two Years of Strife-Exodus from Illinois;
From the Nauvoo Exodus to the Mormon War in Utah; The Bloody Period; Gentiles in Utah; First Views in Utah; Two Weeks in Salt Lake City; Trip to Bear River and Return; The Conference and Its Results; Analysis of Mormon Society; Analysis of Mormon Theology; Theoretical Polygamy-Its History; Practical Polygamy; The Mormon Theocracy; Recusant Sects of Mormons; Geographical Features; Material Resources of Utah; Mormon Mysteries-Their Origin; Present Condition and Prospects; and Redeeming Agencies. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Utah-Mysteries-Crimes-Mormonism/dp/1417975725/ref=sr_1_1/104-5439855-4642303?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187471638&sr=8-1
Yeah, except for the whole blow-up-your-neighbor thing, and the behead-those-who-convert-to-another-religion thing, and the rape-the-women-of-your-enemies thing, and the teach-your-children-to-hate-Jews thing, and...
They're just the same!