I think it odd that the media concentrate on doctrinal differences, which they never bother to spell out, rather than the fact that Mormonism is a separate, even separatist entity within America, that has historically resorted to terrorism to maintain its identity. Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover employed lots of Mormons, because they were neat dressers, and followed orders, but neither man realized that the Mormons' first loyalty was not to the USA but to the LDS Church.

And, in your history of religious wars and oppression, if you see Bolshevism and Nazism as Christian heresies, then almost all wars have been religious in nature, or at least religious in excuses. Undoubtebly, the economic motives are paramount, but the cover stories are usually religious