Monday, August 23, 2010

“I'm gathering that politically opportunistic anti-Muslim sentiment is simmering in the more conservative sectors of the LDS world.”

 

That quote above and more from one of my favorite Mormon opinionators, Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches Magazine:

The Salt Lake Tribune has published a terrific article describing the federal inquisition of Utah Senator Reed Smoot in 1903 as Mormonism’s “9/11 Mosque Moment,” reminding us of a time when the mayor of New York City (no Bloomberg, he) banned Mormon missionaries and when Mormon elders were tarred and feathered in the South.

… Islam is in fact a religion for which Mormon leaders from the time of George A. Smith and Parley P. Pratt in 1855 have expressed respect

A religion with prophetic origins. 

A religious tradition whose outlying extremists are used to discredit and oppose its mainstream practitioners. 

Sound familiar?

Buchannan’s foolish attempt to invade Utah in 1857 was driven by drivel from national political celebrities who, like today’s fly-blowers, have election and wedge issues in mind.

That sounds very familiar.

What would Brigham do?

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