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They don't anymore, but they certainly used to. The reason Salt Lake City is the home of the LDS church today is because they were forced out of Missouri and Illinois, and their extermination was officially authorized by the government. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Executive_Order_44

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Wow, didn't know about that =). Although, it does say that:

> no one is known to have been killed by the militia or anyone else specifically because of it. There were, however, other associated deaths: the militia and other state authorities used Boggs' Executive Order as a pretext to expel the Mormons from their lands in the state, and force them to migrate to Illinois.

I'm pretty sure many muslims countries suffer much worse violence than that, over many more years.

No one is known to have been killed as a direct result of that order; that was the last straw after a lot of other stuff had gone down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haun's_Mill_massacre#Massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crooked_River

Don't forget about the Mountain Meadows Massacre which occurred in the larger context of the "Utah War" about 20 years after your referenced events. http://mountainmeadowsmassacre.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War

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