False comparison.
Trying to say that a mass Mormon Caliphate once tried to take over the entire USA?
as for the Caliphate - without boring everyone....Smiths move out west was for what? - clean air?
no - he wanted to establish a little kingdom of his own....much akin to a caliphate
Mountain Meadow was simply an attack party of jihadists
Trying to say that a mass Mormon Caliphate once tried to take over the entire USA?
...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: “Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’
Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.