“Salt Lake City Mormons and Muslims join together to ‘break the fast'”

I’m always gratified to read about undertakings such as this one:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865681556/Salt-Lake-City-Mormons-and-Muslims-join-together-to-break-the-fast.html

Interfaith dialogues and so forth are very valuable, but nothing is nearly as effective at building bridges as person-to-person, face-to-face contact, working together on common causes, and, yes, sitting down together to converse over a meal.

It’s very difficult to dehumanize a person whom you’ve come to know in that way.  This is one path to greater peace.

Incidentally, here’s an amusing little blog entry (not one of mine) from way back in 2013:

“Why don’t all Muslims in America live in Utah?”

I say it’s amusing because it’s from an anti-Islamic website, and because the friendliness of Latter-day Saints in Utah to their Muslim neighbors is evidently intended, by this author, to represent a Latter-day Saint defect.

May such defects abound!

Posted from Richmond, Virginia