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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by jackbravo on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:23AM (#8880754)
Mormons don't live with the same fear for their lives as muslims. I guess if mormonism had originated in a more violent country it would be encouraging a little more violence. So I don't think the difference is just the ideology but also the cultural background. And western civilization has some blame (some, not all) for the instability and violence lived in middle east.
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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by austenallred on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:28AM (#8880781)
They don't anymore, but they certainly used to. The reason Salt Lake City is the home of the LDS church today is because they were forced out of Missouri and Illinois, and their extermination was officially authorized by the government. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Executive_Order_44

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by jackbravo on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:33AM (#8880815)
Wow, didn't know about that =). Although, it does say that:

> no one is known to have been killed by the militia or anyone else specifically because of it. There were, however, other associated deaths: the militia and other state authorities used Boggs' Executive Order as a pretext to expel the Mormons from their lands in the state, and force them to migrate to Illinois.

I'm pretty sure many muslims countries suffer much worse violence than that, over many more years.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by austenallred on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:45AM (#8880905)
No one is known to have been killed as a direct result of that order; that was the last straw after a lot of other stuff had gone down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haun's_Mill_massacre#Massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crooked_River

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by nonexpectation on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:12PM (#8881098)
Don't forget about the Mountain Meadows Massacre which occurred in the larger context of the "Utah War" about 20 years after your referenced events. http://mountainmeadowsmassacre.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
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