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To: Ilaine who wrote (220360)	2/22/2007 2:53:45 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So once again, when faced with a question you cannot answer to your liking, you resort to personal attacks. nice going.

To: Ilaine who wrote (220360)	2/22/2007 3:40:09 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Actually, I've always viewed Mohammad as being similar to Christ. Like Christ had tried to do, Mohammad attempted a sort of union with the Jewish leaders of the time. He presented himself as a continuation of the prophets that began with Abraham. The Jews rejected him primarily as a 'non-Jew' in spite of his paternal lineage. Initially Mohammad had instructed his followers to pray west in the direction of Jerusalem, after he was rejected, he instructed his followers to pray to the east. Years ago when I lightly studied Islam, I was left with the impression that the original Islamic scriptures that Gabriel had Mohammad transcribe were basically a validation of the body of scripture that had gone before with the Jews and early Christians. And this is what Mohammad tried to offer the Jewish leaders.....a continuation and validation of scripture along with some clarification or 'tweaking'.....but not a rejection or overturning of God's previous messages. I don't see literacy as an issue. From the outset, Mohammad seemed familiar with both jewish and christian theology and scripture.....probably thru his travels as a merchant. And neither theology was fully codified at that point in time anyway.