That is true, and I’ve read of their special regard for Mary the Blessed Mother. It’s astonishing, really. Perhaps those in charge of Islam are dealing with their own bitter version of “Modernism”, as are Western Christians.
Can confirm — Tom Clancy had this in one of his novels, where a nascent Caliphate arising from Iraq and Iran is testing airborne ebola on Catholic nuns...
That is true, and I’ve read of their special regard for Mary the Blessed Mother. It’s astonishing, really. Perhaps those in charge of Islam are dealing with their own bitter version of “Modernism”, as are Western Christians.
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I think their quaint, rather shallow (vs their passion for Sharia law!), perfunctory beliefs about Yeshua & Mary are decorations on their major beliefs & doctrines. Maybe there’s a ritual or commemoration here or there related to their beliefs about Mary & Jesus but nothing of lasting substance that really determines any significant behaviors.
Besides, the whole corpus if their founding documents are in large chunks wholesale plagiarized, distorted from the Jewish Old Testament.