The Character of Islamic Ideology

Submitted by Prof. Paul Eidelberg (Israel), May 17, 2012 at 03:18

This opinion regarding Islam and Muha\mmad does not in the least affect the issue of character of Islamic ideology, whose savagery is plain to any candid reader—as it was to Arab philologist and historian Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)—regardless of any revisionist speculation about the dating of Islamic scriptures or even of Muhammad's existence.

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