I find it very interesting that posting about the mormons courting of muslims is a sore spot, since the mormon church does a lot of boasting about the connection.
Run a search for "muslim" at mormontimes.com. Link ...showing 100 results. Samples of these articles are:
"Islam is not the only faith that stresses modesty in women's dress. Eternity, a national designer of modest eveningwear, for example, sells long-sleeved, high-necked "temple-ready" gowns for Mormon brides as well as a white bridal hijab."
"The Islamic and Latter-day Saint faiths are quite interconnected, Kosorok said, giving as one example the forum address at BYU in 2006 by Dr. Alwi Shihab, "Building Bridges of Understanding: The Church and the World of Islam." (speeches.byu.edu)
Shihab was introduced by President Boyd K. Packer of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve who said Mormons and Muslims are "knit together" as "people of the Book."
BYU professor sculpts glass to build bridges between LDS, Islam
""BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative has published 16 works — including Islamic works, Eastern Christian texts and a series of works by Jewish rabbi Moses Maimonides. "Physics" is the seventh volume in the Islamic Translation Series of this initiative.
The publication of Avicenna's work is "an acknowledgment of the great contributions Arabic and Islamic civilization have made to the world," Peterson said. "It is an expression of respect for Muslim tradition on the part of Latter-day Saints."
BYU publishes classic text written by Islamic philosopher
"Rabbi Rosen, director of the American Jewish Committee's Department for Interreligious Affairs, said helping the United States push forward to mediate the Israel/Palestine conflict would be in the LDS Church's interest not only because of what it would mean for its religion but also because of BYU's Jerusalem Center, where Rabbi Rosen himself taught several years ago.