Edited sentence: And so Krakauer unwittingly puts himself in the same camp as those who believe every German is a Nazi, every Japanese a fanatic, and every Arab a terrorist.Excerpt from LDS posistion:.He does a huge disservice to his readers by promulgating old stereotypes.He finds sufficient zealots and extremists in the past 150 years to help him tell his story, and by extrapolation tars every Mormon with the same brush.He is a storyteller who cuts corners to make the story sound good.His basic thesis appears to be that people who are religious are irrational, and that irrational people do strange things.One could be forgiven for concluding that every Latter-day Saint, including your friendly Mormon neighbor, has a tendency to violence.The exceptions are the rule by his standards.This book is not history, and Krakauer is no historian