Very accurate! Thanks for posting this factual analysis.
The only thing that kept Mormonism from being a scourge like Islam is that the US was powerful enough to knock it back. Mohammed had his “visions” well after the fall of the Roman Empire, during a time when the Eastern and Western Church were alienated and there was no major secular power. That was what enabled him to sweep through and subjugate a number of unwary civilizations around him.
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, fortunately, arrived at the wrong time and were not able to do that here in the US. But I do believe the Mormons are still trying, and I read recently that they are thinking of bringing back polygamy now that the US government has adopted “gay marriage.”
The only question in my mind is whether the Mormons and the Muslims will have to duke it out somewhere, or whether the Muslims will make some way of accepting the Mormons as perhaps a lost tribe of Muslims with their own incarnation of their prophet. Or something. I don’t know, but the two groups are so similar that something is going to have to give.
And I sure don’t want somebody from either group as President.
Strange, how I came across that research, as an Australian I was barely familiar with mormonism. Came across it about three years ago as the result of reading ‘The Life of Muhammad’ published in 1913, and something clicked. The ‘golden tablets’ I knew about, that reminded me of the ‘holy koran’ - the original being the word of allah transmitted through an archangel. I Googled the keywords MORMON ISLAM.
And there it all was...
http://www.muhammadanism.org/Canon_Sell/muhammad/life_muhammad.pdf
mohammad plagiarized...but he wasn’t the last.