Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Academic Chicanery With Deadly Results

Few things are more demonstrative of the sad state of affairs of modern academia than the increasingly fictionalized portrayals of the founders of the two largest religions in the world: Jesus and Mohammad. Though the same dubious methods are used for both — ignore the most historically valid texts and documents, build ponderous theories atop evidence of the most tenuous kind — the goals are markedly different. In academia today, we find Jesus, far from the Son of God, portrayed at once as a wandering “magician” and a hippie-like philanderer inclined to homosexuality. Mohammad, whom the most authentic Muslim sources portray as, among other things, a warlord who had entire tribes executed and plundered, their women herded into harems, their children sold into slavery, appears as a peaceful and altruistic ruler whose governance ushered in, among other improvements, a sort of seventh-century “feminism.”

Read Raymond Ibrahim's entire essay here.

1 comment:

Sherry said...

Interesting article, but I fail to see for what reason the "secular" academia is bent on destroying Christianity. When he turns to Islam, he claims the Arab scholars are attempting to make Islam appear better. That I can at least understand. Still I'm not sure what the point is. He never connects the two through any common thread.