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January 17, 2006
Islam, scholarship, and appropriation
Topics: Understanding Islam"The Vatican as a Mosque: that should get someone's attention. And once it is established as such, don't be surprised if you hear some farrago to the effect that long, long ago, lost in the mists of the distant past, there was a mosque there -- before there was any church."
Yes, there are those that may be called historical revisionists, there are appropriators, and then there are experts at both - the Islamists...
As Fitzgerald at Jihad Watch poses, "One wonders if the most educated and enlightened of Muslims will manage to tolerate the same study of their faith that Christians and Jews (and Hindus and Buddhists) have all managed to tolerate, and more than tolerate, or whether the belief-system of Islam will prove too brittle to endure such study. "
Posted by Richard at January 17, 2006 11:42 AM
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