“Rural Wyoming Town’s First Mosque Sparks Anti-Muslim Rhetoric”

Gillette, Wyoming, from the passing highway — Gillette, Wyoming, from I-90
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Gillette is located in the northeastern quadrant of the State of Wyoming, mercifully distant from areas of historic Mormon concentration — though I sadly suspect that, however ironic it may be, my own coreligionists may not be wholly immune to the virus of fear and religious intolerance.

This is distressing:

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/25/461046585/rural-wyoming-towns-first-mosque-sparks-anti-muslim-rhetoric

If I were in that part of Wyoming, I would do everything that I could to be supportive of that small, beleaguered Muslim community. Not only because it’s the humanly and ethically right thing to do, and the appropriate American thing to do, but because, as a member of another often despised and sometimes abused religious minority, I feel a special sense of solidarity with them.

Shame on the people in the Gillette area who’re misbehaving in this way. My ancestors were driven from New York to Ohio, from Ohio to Missouri, from Missouri to Illinois, and from Illinois to the arid Great Basin West by their spiritual forebears.

May no Latter-day Saints join in such unseemly actions.

Posted from Richmond, Virginia

“Rural Wyoming town’s first mosque sparks anti-Muslim rhetoric”