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Islam: Spread By the Sword?The Muslim world is outraged again. This time it isn't from cartoons of Mohammed, but some comments that the Pope made in a recent speech. He cited a medieval text suggesting that the religion of Mohammed is violent and inhumane. The newspapers thus go on to distinguish between the "Christian view" that early Islam was "spread by the sword" and the "Muslim view" that it was not. I've run across an interesting scholarly article that addresses that issue. It is written by a Mark Hartwig, Ph.D. and it appears on a Christian apologetics website titled "Answering Islam." Because of the context in which the article appears, many will suspect that the article is biased. But the author cites careful scholarship and strikes what I think is a balanced view. Here 'tis. muddle's blog | login to post comments |