Mormons in the News

In an admittedly lame response to the DNews' spectacular new MormonTimes edition, SLCrawler will try -- on a hit or miss basis -- to offer LDS tidbits from around the world.
VANCOUVER, Canada -- Zarqa Nawaz, creator of the hit Canadian TV comedy, "Little Mosque on the Prairie," (I'm not making this up, by the way.) used the province's Mormon polygamous colony as an example of hypocrisy towards Muslims.
Speaking at the University of British Columbia, Nawaz said the only reason the fundamentalist Mormons are allowed to stay in Canada is "they're not Muslims."
No one, not even the gentle Canadians, she argues, would put up with bunch of Islamic polygamists.
Ergo, Nawaz reasons, "As Muslims, we have a right to be racist and sexist."
JERUSALEM -- In the Jerusalem Post, Shmuley Boteach discusses Mormon depression -- something that seldom gets talked about in Utah. Why do Mormons have the highest rate of depression in America (according to Time magazine)? "Because they are not trained to be open about things that trouble them," Boteach explains.
A Mormon mom, for example, has lots of kids; which brings lots of joy, but also lots of pressure. But she sometimes has to pretend to be happy even when she's not. And the lack of an outlet to express unhappiness becomes a dangerous source of melancholy.

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