Try telling that to practicing Muslims! They are certainly personally attached to Mohammed as though he were a God of some sort. There was an intellectual at a Pakistani University who said that Mohammed's parents can't have been Muslim because Islam didn't even exist at that time - and he received a death sentence from the Muslim clerics for this great sin.Dave Sim wrote:In fact Islam intentionally avoids the deification of Mohammed that is the core of Christianity
Then there was all that mess about the cartoonists who were depicting Mohammed in their cartoons.
I reckon that Sim must believe that Islam is something entirely different to what Muslims actually practise in the real world, just as we know that Christianity, or the teaching of Christ, is entirely unrelated to what Christians practice.
That sounds like "The Middle Way" of Buddhism . . . if you want to look at it optimistically . . .Muhammad could arguably have been said to have demanded a certain superiority, but only in the sense outlined above: don't fall short and don't overreach.
Couldn't this be interpreted to be saying that he was the most recent messenger, at the time?He was told to say that he was "God's last messenger and the seal of the prophets."
Again, I'm trying to project wisdom onto Mohammed's words - if indeed they were his words and not those of someone else.
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I think there's a definite chance that Sim might lose his mind unless he gets some rational input from outside his frame of reference. He seems to be getting lost in that jumble of words, and digging himself in deeper and deeper, like a car getting bogged-down in mud and spinning its tyres.