Very harsh anti- polygamy legislation in the US led some Mormons to emigrate to Canada and Mexico. Since the Second Manifesto in 1904, a policy was adopted for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found practicing or promoting new polygamous marriages--marriages performed before the Manifesto were allowed to continue until all parties had died. Today, the practice of plural marriage continues among tens of thousands of Mormon fundamentalists, mostly in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico, where it is generally illegal. Practitioners are almost never prosecuted. They even have their own private schools for the children who grow up in polygamous families. In some countries polygamy is much needed, without it people would not be able to keep up their farms. It helps them to get food more easily and share the property they inherited from their parents.
Every so often, one of these groups commit another terrorist attack and thus, the wheel just keeps turning. Unless we find a way to break this circle, things will only get worse as time goes on. We must keep in mind that the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is often much shorter than we think. These are, indeed, volatile times for muslim people living in Europe. Deadly terrorist attacks from Islamic fundamentalists have stricken fear into the hearts of many and have resulted in a rise of tribal mentality within many parts of western society. In these volatile times we should all come together. Instead of isolation, we need integration. Instead of building walls, we need to build bridges. It would be naïve to think that the building of a single mosque in our nation's capital would solve all our problems, but it would be a great start.
candidate-membership status, "9/11" had yet to happen. The attacks dramatically changed the social and political climate and awoke dormant feelings of deep unease. Subsequently, much of the discourse on relations between Western and Muslim states was cast in the mould of the "clash of civilisations", to use the phrase coined by Samuel Huntington. Ethnic violence became more quickly associated with Islam and visible communities of religious Muslims more quickly labeled as dangerous fundamentalists (Zürcher, E.J., Linden, H., 2004). It is not only in the member states, but also in Turkey itself, that public and political manifestations of Islam raise controversy. Evidence for this can be found in the countless "headscarf incidents" in Turkey, as well as in the periodic interventions by the Turkish army against democratically elected leaders with overt religious affiliations. Many supporters of Turkish nationalist and secular parties fear that it is
Fanaticism to a deity is not a good thing. The terrorists of 9/11 killed so many people did so "in the name of God" also. Their creed actually does not call for anything like that. Perversion of God by those who hold power is a sin. Its impossible to truly believe in a religion, and feel justified in killing or persecuting others. The infamous Bill Clinton fiasco was made into big issue because of fundamentalists in government. Newt Gingrich (a former prominent Republican) was much to busy thumping his Bible to even read it. He called for Clinton's head, even thought Newt liked to philander too. This man was exactly like Arthur Dimmesdale in some respects. Both of them were guilty of a sin they themselves were condemning. Hypocrisy was present in Puritan society and it endures still even today. Hypocrisy is the major theme in The Scarlet Letter
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