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Mormons followed Islam.

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In particular, “Mormonism,” he writes, “excited my interest at an early age before all else because of the surprising analogy, extending even to the smallest details, between it and the fundamental drives, external forms, and historical development of Islam: here one might hope to discover significant clues for a proper understanding of Mohammed and his religion. … there is hardly another historical parallel as instructive as this one. … It is impossible to undertake the scholarly investigation of the one without a closer acquaintance with the other.”⁴

 

 

http://lds.org/ensign/1972/03/islam-and-mormonism-a-comparison?lang=eng

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From link:

The Arab sees what he wants to or as he wants it to be.

The same type of licensed thinking is the hallmark of conventional Christian theology, and it was because Mormonism turned away from this theology of freewheeling symbol and fantasy that it was anathema to all the churches.

For all its superficial resemblances to Islam, Mormonism is even farther removed from it than from sectarian Christianity.