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So, Really, Why Do They Hate Us? – PAUL ATWOOD – 23 Sep.12

Posted on September 22, 2012 by kf1

Recent attacks on American embassies and consulates in numerous Muslim countries are claimed to be irrational and undue reactions to a film portraying the Muslim prophet Mohammed in a degraded manner. The film is intentionally sacrilegious and incendiary toward Islamic … Continue reading →

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So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews? – Jewish Chronicle Online – 24 Mar.12

Posted on June 19, 2012 by kf1

Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion. And second, the coming of Islam saved them, providing a new context in which they not only survived, but flourished, laying foundations for subsequent Jewish cultural prosperity – also in Christendom – through the medieval period into the modern world. Continue reading →

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