You defended the polygamists during the FLDS raids, and you are here defending the LDS for their teaming with radical Islamists, among other threads where Mormonism is the topic.
From the article I linked to earlier by Debbie Schlussel we read this:
An Islamic Relief fundraising dinner I attended in summer 2004 in Dearborn, Michigan, was chilling. It was just after Americans Nicholas Berg and Paul Johnson were beheaded by Muslims.
The evening’s “entertainment” consisted of young boys–some apparently as young as seven–simulating beheadings and shootings of other young boys who donned the American, Israeli, and British flags. Then they put red scarves over their heads to symbolize blood . . . and no head. Afterward, they took off the flags and stomped on them. Almost every Islamic leader in town was there, clapping in ecstasy. So was U.S. Congressman John Conyers, who will run the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats regain control of Congress.
The master of ceremonies was Rayed Tayeh, formerly employed by Islamic Association for Palestine, which several former top FBI officials say is a HAMAS front group. In 2002, Tayeh served as spokesman of a Muslim group boycotting Starbucks because its Chairman is Jewish. A letter Tayeh wrote in a Capitol Hill newspaper was deemed so anti-Semitic that even Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney fired him from her staff.
An Islamic Relief fundraiser I attended, Friday, was tamer. Misbah Shahid, the organization’s Detroit representative, announced that IRW publishes and distributes school textbooks to children in Palestinian refugee camps. But textbooks distributed in the camps are riddled with anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-American rhetoric, according to Molly Resnick of Mothers Against Teaching Children to Kill and Hate.
Shahid also told the audience that his organization is one of the key Non-Governmental Organizations currently distributing aid to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, including U.N. and U.S. aid. But those camps are known as breeding grounds for terrorists.
Given all this, why are Mormons pouring millions into Islamic Relief?
And yet, you are still vehemently defending Mormonism in their long standing relationship to IR-USA. I really see no need to provide any link since it is so obvious on this thread alone.
I didn’t defend polygamy during the FLDS raids. I defended the LDS from attacks by people insinuating that FLDS was really LDS, and I objected to how the government was acting.
Objecting to government actions against a group is not the same as defending the group. I found the whole FLDS compound repugnant, but my personal dislike does not mean I think the government has the right to trample on people’s rights, or to tear hundreds of kids away from their mothers.
But I don’t mean to be arguing that again, just noting that my defense was NOT of “polygamists”.
Just as here I am not defending the religion, just saying that I see nothing wrong with two groups I don’t belong to working together to help people.
If I were LDS, I would be disturbed by the allegations of the LDS church working with muslims such as what you post here. But I’m not — and further, that wasn’t the topic of the thread, so it’s not the “associations” I was defending.