This is a Wall Street Journal article I've seen bouncing around facebook.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444450004578002010241044712.html
While the author takes a pretty narrow-minded approach (he paints Liberals as the only persecutors of Mormonism, when this election's Republican Primaries showed Conservatives just as willing as anyone to criticize Mormonism, and asserts that "a great religion surely cannot be goaded into frenetic mob violence on the slimmest provocation" concerning Islam while ignoring Christianity's violent history, even here in the US etc.) I think he poses an interesting comparison between the public's reaction to the Book of Mormon musical vs. the film "Innocence of Muslims" and wanted to know your responses--especially because of your background with US religious history. Do you think this is a fair comparison? Does it say anything about religion in the US, or Islam and Christianity in the US? And what do you think he did right or wrong with his article?
If you have time, I'd really love to hear what you guys think about either my questions/thoughts or whatever you came up with while reading! Thanks!
