Word: korans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koran...
...fight them," wrote Mohammed in the holy Koran. "What liars they are." Mohammed meant Christians and Jews, whom he had expected to accept his new vision. When they did not respond, he took to the sword. Before the onslaught Eastern Christianity declined in numbers, vigor and territory. Within 80 years of Islam's birth, the mosque had replaced the church from Antioch to Carthage...
...Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ. To him Christ seemed a rival of the One God, and that Mohammed could not accept. Accordingly he reduced Christ to the status of one prophet among many and gave him a few brief pages in the Koran. Even today Moslems refuse to consider Christianity a monotheistic faith because of this early misreading of Christ. Nor could Mohammed, for whom it was unthinkable that God would let his prophet suffer ignominy and defeat at the hands of his detractors, accept Christ's immolation: crucifixion was no proper fate...
...recent growth of Christian Biblical criticism has not helped allay misunderstanding. Moslem scholars see in it only proof that the Christian scriptures are unreliable. The accounts of the Evangelists are, in the Moslem mind, confirmation that the New Testament does not share the validity of the Koran, which was revealed to Mohammed alone. "The assumption is immediate," says Author Cragg. "that because there are four, none of them is valid...
...changed, and today everyone wants independence." One Egyptian put it more drastically: "Belgrave was one of those so-called Arab experts. Just as Glubb went, so he's gone, and so will go all of them. Nobody's impressed any more with Englishmen who can recite the Koran. The hell with them...