Rev 14 (The Open Remnant 10)– In spite of the benevolent sayings in the Qur’an, it was well before the death of Muhammad that hostilities broke out between the new monotheistic faith and its two predecessors (For a sympathetic Western account of this tragic development see Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet [(NY: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992], 182-210.). Positions hardened on all three sides. Ideas with which each faith tended to identify were marginalized or even demonized by the other two. The end result of this hardening was a sharp division among the three monotheistic faiths and increasing violence over the centuries, climaxing in the brutality of the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Holocaust on the Christian side with corresponding atrocities on the islamic side (such as the massacre of the Jews at Madinah and September 11).
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