I've noticed that some people who move to Utah think that everybody already here should adapt themselves to their ideas of what society should be like. Some of them move here because it's supposed to be a good place to raise kids, and then gripe constantly about Mormons and their values. It has occurred to me that some of the people who move here to get away from the problems in the places they leave immediately set about trying to make changes in this society which create the problems they are fleeing.

I wonder if this isn't the problem with a lot of intolerant Muslims, like those who bombed the subways and buses in London. They don't seem to understand that the freedom and opportunities that made them or their parent want to come to the West cannot be sustained in the kind of religious police state they want to establish. If Middle Eastern countries want to have modern economies, they have to get used to the idea of working in jobs that get one's hands dirty, and, further, they need to accept the idea that all people are created equal, and that tribal societies will always be held back by their own authoritarian structures and the authoritarian nature of radical varieties of Islam like Wahhabism and Jamaat-i-Islami. If God wanted us to be deprived of the power to make our own choices, why didn't he make us more like ants?