“Pious Muslims””!?! Mohammed was a monster. You can’t separate Mohammed from Islam, he created it. Any and every Saracen bastard, man, woman and child is as corrupted and evil as Mohammed was. “Pious Muslims’’, in a pigs eye.
Mohammed conquered Christian lands. The Christians were no longer able to teach the Christian doctrines about redemption, but Christianity became a folk tradition about love, charity, prayer and faithfulness, and informed Islam of these things.
Emperor Palaialogos said, “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” But his wording was very clever, for he did not deny that there were many old (Christian) things which were brought.