American evangelicals compared Mormonism to Islam as a shared heresy.

Evidence

In 1912, Bruce Kinney wrote Mormonism: The Islam of America, the book’s title stemming from the perceived similarities between the two religions in terms of topics such as polygamy and ideas on heaven. The resemblance was not intended to be a salutary one, as the book written by a former superintendent of Baptist missions in Utah dealt with “the Mormon problem.” — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 99

Categorization

• SEED: A potential essay angle: the genealogy of comparing minority religions to Islam in American Christian discourse, from Mormonism to contemporary parallels.
• XREF: connects to: Christians judged the inner religious enemy worse than the foreign one — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople: A Critical…, 59; The essay critically assesses the contemporary scholarship on Christian Islamophobia, arguing that it often overlooks the internal Christian divisions and portrays Christianity as a monolithic entity united against Islam. By focusing on the diverse Christian attitudes towards the Ottomans, particularly the Orthodox perspective, the essay demonstrates that the fear of theological compromise with the Latins was considered a worse fate than Muslim conquest.; Early Protestant polemicists linked Islam with Catholicism and Judaism as apocalyptic rivals. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 99

Broader Connections

• Christians judged the inner religious enemy worse than the foreign one #expands (0.50) — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople, 59
• The essay critically assesses the contemporary scholarship on Christian Islamophobia, arguing that it often overlooks the internal Christian divisions and portrays Christianity as a monolithic… #expands (0.40)