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MormonTimes.com: LDS more like Jews than any other world religion

Published: Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008 12:40 a.m. MDT
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PROVO — The Jewish populatiosn in the United States and Israel are about equal at 5.2 million and 5.3 million respectively, while the U.S. population of Muslims is tiny by comparison, Victor L. Ludlow , a Brigham Young University professor of ancient scriptures said during Campus Education Week.

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are more like the Jews than they are like members of any of the other world religions, he said. In the United States neither group fits in the fabric of society.

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