Can Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Islam be described as Restorationists?

What does the term, Restorationist, actually mean?
I don't know who's been dishing out thumbs down, but it wasn't me.
I hear what Omer is saying - but can Islam be described as restorations? I should really like to hear their point of view.
My thanks to RCA for explaining the LDS position on Restoration and also to Achtung for the JW position.

Restoration? well the only restoration JWs preach is that Jesus will restore the original purpose of his father Jehovah in Genesis 1:27-28 that this planet...the only thing humans know will be a great place to live under Jesus?s ruler ship after the Judgement day...God created a beautiful planet for humans for their Joyce and that will be restore it.....if that is restoration then yes.....

That's funny, you just listed the three most hated religions on this site. What I mean is, many of the questions here are posted by ignorant people who just make fun of these religions but have no real basis on the information they use. Propaganda has distorted Islam and people accept everything they hear as truth. The anti-Islamic propaganda is overwhelming and is still causing more and more people every day to become ignorant.

are anti-religious. whatever it is that you meant, respect to religions is paramount. we will be peaceful if all and sundry Didi that.

since they are false theologies...what would they be restoring??

They cannot be described as restorationsSTosca's their doctrine is not Biblical in nature.

A restorations is someone who restores something to its original form. You can call Martin Luther a restorations (though most call him a reformer) because he wanted Christians to get back to the Bible rather than listen to what the Catholic church had to say about grace and salvation.

To me, a restorations goes back to an original form. A reformer changes what is present. I would think both Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses would be Restorationists. I don't know enough about Islam to make that call.

Only the LDS Church - we "restored" Christ's church to the earth. The JWs don't claim they restored anything and Islam hasn't "gone back" to any truth.

Well I don't know enough about Islam or JW to classify them as Restorationists. Mormons are classified that we because we believe that we are the Restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

I think to be a Restorationsist- you have to believe that you have restored and ancient religion. THat is what Mormons believe.

I don't know what exactly you mean by "restorations" but I will state that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints openly proclaims that the foulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ together with His divine authority was restored to the earth by means of Joseph Smith and has continued to be promulgated from that time to the present. The New Testament states that there must be a restoration of all things. The work that was started by Jesus through Joseph Smith is the fulfillment of that promise. So in that sense, yes, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is restorations.

Restorationists is what fundamentalists originally thought of their-selves.
Restore the faith and the fundamental doctrines taught by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Remove doctrine and pagan pageantry's that make the void word of God
A daunting task - still is.

So no these do not try to correct but indeed have added doctrines and writings that are vanity and of the adversary.

2Timothy 2:
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
&
2Timothy 3:
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

For decades, the publications of Jehovah's Witnesses have avoided the term "Restorationism" (not even including the quotes of others who respectfully apply the term to them). By contrast, Jehovah's Witnesses have generally accepted the term "primitive Christianity" in descriptions of their form of worship.
http://watchtower.org/e/kn35/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_03.htm

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that all the details needed for true worship are contained in the standard 66-book bible which has persisted for nearly two thousand years. Likewise, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that during all those centuries there has been a remnant of true Christians on the earth. Calling ones religion "the Restoration" might imply the existence of an interim without true worship, and might seem to ignore those centuries of effort by other true Christians throughout history.
http://watchtower.org/e/20001201/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/200601b/article_01.htm

Perhaps Mormon use of the term "restoration ism" has influenced the Witnesses' avoidance of the term. Mormons believe that additional writings were and are necessary to understand what the apostles early Christians believed and practiced, while Jehovah's Witnesses simply believe and practice according to the same bible which has always served Christ's followers.

Islam rejects the bible almost entirely, and pretends that the Jews and early Christians were largely apostate. Islamists and other Muslims might argue that their religion "restores" Abrahamic worship, but Islam is not generally accepted under the umbrella of "Restorationism".

Clearly the Mormons rejoice in the title 'Restorationists'! They are proud to own it as many answers here show.

JWs shrink from it - possibly because they do not want to be mixed up with the Mormons. The reason offered by Achtung, that there always has been 'the true Church' throughout history, is flimsy given that they also teach that only a few hundred thousand Christians existed from the time of Christ till the JW religion started in the late 1800s. They also teach 'a great apostasy' from true Christianity during those centuries and that when Jesus examined all professing Christians in the early 1900s, he only found JWs faithful and appointed them to be his channel. This channel was then given new revelation (new doctrines e.g. the 144,000 & no blood transfusions) and only those joining it could hope to survive God's wrath. So their claim to have returned to the primitive 1st century Church is merely another way of saying they have restored it, without saying 'res oration'.

Islam, I think, claims to be the culmination of God's revelation to humanity and it claims to have its origins in the religion of Abraham and be a continuation of it. So I don't think they fit the bill.

However, my dictionary says restoration ism is the doctrine that all men will ultimately be restored to happiness in the future life so (if the dead are ruled out due to soul annihilation) all religions denying hell as a state of punishment might qualify! That would definitely include the JWs alongside the Mormons who believe all humanity will be saved.