
Of course, somebody might respond that we shouldn’t care about the sensitivities of Muslim children or the fears of minorities.
For any Mormons who might be inclined to that response, I offer the following, from the Wikipedia article regarding the 30 October 1838 Haun’s Mill massacre, in which, thanks to the efforts of a roughly 250-member mob, at least seventeen Mormons and one non-Mormon sympathizer were killed and thirteen more (including a woman and a nine-year-old child) were wounded:
After the initial attack, several of those who had been wounded or had surrendered were shot dead. Members of the militia entered the shop and found ten-year-old Sardius Smith, eight-year-old Alma Smith, and nine-year-old Charles Merrick hiding under the blacksmith’s bellows. Alma and Charles were shot (Charles later died), and a militia man known as “Glaze, of Carroll county,” killed Sardius Smith when he “put his musket against Sardius’s skull and blew off the top of his head.” Later a William Reynolds would justify the killing by saying, “Nits will make lice, and if he had lived he would have become a Mormon.”