Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1010

“Why There are So Few Muslim Terrorists”

    This is a book that I look forward to seeing:   https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...#   What a wonderfully intriguing, counterintuitive, man-bites-dog title!   I thank Jabra Ghneim for calling the book to my notice.   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

Elder Ballard visits refugee facilities in Germany and Greece

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is deeply involved in humanitarian service around the globe.  Here’s a recent bit of news in that connection:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

“When social justice isn’t about justice”

    Nathaniel Givens has written a very important and well-thought-out essay here:   http://difficultrun.nathanielgivens.c...   Posted from Marbella, Spain

“Overcoming Xenophobia: Lessons from the Catholic, Mormon & Jewish Experiences”

    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2...   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

Two quotations on gratitude

    If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.  (Frank A. Clark)   The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.  (William Blake)   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

Two American Muslims (and an anti-Nazi clergyman) respond to the execrable Donald Trump

    http://www.today.com/news/no-less-ame...   http://magazine.good.is/articles/musl...   First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—  Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak [Read More...]

Thoughts for Thanksgiving (4)

    Here’s a Deseret News column that I published on Thanksgiving Day last year, 2014:   Many years ago, a friend (now deceased) told me about a very high-ranking Church leader (also now deceased) who had been asked to address a group of local senior service missionaries and their wives at their annual Christmas [Read More...]

“The Most Interesting Star in Our Galaxy”

    Michael De Groote has kindly brought this intriguing article to my notice:   http://www.theatlantic.stfi.re/scienc...   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

Hateful ethnic stereotyping at a young age

    I know a pair of relatively young Muslim parents from Egypt who studied at BYU and who have chosen to remain to live and work in Utah.  I think very highly of them.  They’re fine people, gentle and good people, and assets to our valley.   I’ve just learned that a fellow student at the [Read More...]

Some quick journalizing notes from Andalucía

    I like a stroll on the beach as much as anybody, and we’ve done a bit of that here.  But the real point of coming to southern Spain was to spend some time poking around the remnants of the Islamic golden age in al-Andalus.   On Friday, as I’ve already noted here, we [Read More...]