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A beautiful Arizona sunset (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A few days ago, I mentioned that my wife has lately been reading a great deal by and about\u00a0Elie Wiesel<\/a>\u00a0for a presentation that she\u2019s shortly to give. \u00a0She recently called the following passage to my attention, from Wiesel\u2019s\u00a0All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs\u00a0<\/em>(Knopf\/Doubleday, 2010):<\/p>\n

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One morning we came upon an enormous sign under the Arizona sun: \u201cIndian Reservation 100 Miles.\u201d Instantly we decided to take the detour. None of us had ever met an Indian, our knowledge extending no further than the movie stereotypes of young savages and wise old men. The Indians were always the ones on the attack, shrieking and killing. But why not? In their eyes, the white man was nothing but a rapacious armed invader seeking to drive them from their lands and reduce them to dependency by imposing his language and culture. And all with a revoltingly clear conscience. The man who greeted us in a tent decorated with feathers and other tribal insignia might have stepped out of a movie. Tall, erect, impassive, and majestic, he had a slow, dignified walk and a weathered, angular face. We hung on his every\u00a0word as he explained the Indian concept of life and death. He was respectful, and he inspired respect. At\u00a0one point he asked us to sign his visitors\u2019 book. Dov urged me to go first. I don\u2019t know why, but I signed in Hebrew, and the Indian rewarded me with a hearty pat on the back. \u201cSholem aleichem,\u201d he said in Yiddish. Dov and Leah nearly collapsed in surprise and laughter. It turned out our host was Jewish, a camp survivor from Polish Galicia who had first emigrated to Mexico. When things went badly there, he moved to Arizona and made his living as an Indian by day while remaining a Jew by night. In my diary I wrote: \u201cAmerica is truly a wonderland. Even the Indians speak Yiddish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Somehow, I think that it doesn\u2019t really rise to serious consideration as evidence for the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n

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Marking a just-passed anniversary:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Satanic Verses<\/em> sowed the seeds of rifts that have grown ever wider: Three decades after Salman Rushdie\u2019s novel ignited Muslim fury and shook the world, we\u2019ve yet to learn the right lessons\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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This quotation about the 2005\u00a0Jyllands-Posten<\/i>\u00a0Muhammad cartoon controversy in Denmark<\/a>, from\u00a0Graham E. Fuller\u2019s 2011 book A World without Islam<\/em>, may be relevant here:<\/p>\n

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The cartoon incident did not pit believing Danes against nonbelieving Danes, but rather nonbelieving Danes against the supreme cultural symbol of a small, disadvantaged, and frightened minority that lacks voice or status in Europe\u2014in their eyes, a direct assault against their very being and a mockery of their presence. \u00a0(204)<\/span><\/p>\n

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