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First of all the LDS Church only sends missionaries where they are allowed to go. That means if a country doesn’t wanted proselytizing, then they will not send missionaries. That means because currently all Islamic nations do not allow missionaries in, they do not have a “presence”. Although there have been cases where the LDS Church has sent massive amounts of aide to Islamic nations such as Afghanistan, and also a lot of aide is being prepped to be sent to Iraq.

The LDS Church has a presence in Jerusalem (Israel) with the BYU Jerusalem Center. It is currently closed right now due to the violent conflicts. Part of the agreement with being able to build the Jerusalem Center was that any people staying there would not be allowed to proselytize, even if they were asked specifically to tell more about the Church. The LDS Church also made an agreement with the Israeli government that no Israelis would be baptized into the Church.

The LDS Church does care about non-Christians, and are in many countries where Christianity is not the norm. My brother is currently serving in Thailand and has met numerous people who have not even heard of Christ. But the only reason missionaries are currently there is because the government has allowed them, the LDS Church will not use deception to gain a foothold in a country. Currently there are “Humanitarian Missionaries” from the LDS Church in China, they have been allowed in by the government but are currently not allowed to proselytize. Because there are many denominations that chose to ignore the Chinese Government’s wishes proselytizing Christianity is still not allowed there.

On a different topic, I find it really interesting how so many people are so adamant about the persecution of the LDS Church, some of these people say they are Christians, but if you ask me their actions are not very Christ-like. I guess the LDS Church must be doing something really right if the adversary must work so hard to persecute it.