Posted on 11/15/2008 5:26:58 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
What's the over/under on this guy's life span?.....
MÜNSTER, Germany --Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany's first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn't like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.
So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the fruit of his theological research. His conclusion: The Prophet Muhammad probably never existed.
Muslims, not surprisingly, are outraged. Even Danish cartoonists who triggered global protests a couple of years ago didn't portray the Prophet as fictional. German police, worried about a violent backlash, told the professor to move his religious-studies center to more-secure premises.
"We had no idea he would have ideas like this," says Thomas Bauer, a fellow academic at Münster University who sat on a committee that appointed Prof. Kalisch. "I'm a more orthodox Muslim than he is, and I'm not a Muslim."
(Excerpt) Read more at weaselzippers.net ...
This guy’s gonna need to go underground and quick.Fatwas calling for his murder will be issued by tomorrow.
Wow...there’s a special kind of schadenfreude at work here....
Bu!!$h!t .. who do you think gave us Kwanzaa?
How long does this guy have to live?
I thought we had the book on this guy, but he wasn’t all he’s been trumped up to be?
Huh? Speak sensibly, Professor!
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I bet the fatwa generator is heating up...
http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=Kalisch+%2B+fatwa&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
The best candidate I know of for non-existence would be Charlemagne.
I hope “Proffesor” Kalisch isn’t what German academia is coming to. Maintaining that Mohammad was a false prophet is reasonable, but maintaining he never existed is just absurd.
One thing we can't have is Moslems doing any research. That might require drawing some adult conclusions.
I was surprised to hear that the earliest writings on Mohammad were a century after he died. The earliest copies of the New Testament were 25 years after the Crucifixion of Christ.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548418/posts
Why so?
verse 2- Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.
verse 3- When the Ashdodites arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Lord. So they took Dagon and set him in his place again.
verse 4- But when they arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. And the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.
Apparently there really isn’t any physical evidence on the planet for either Charlemagne or any of the Carolingians to have ever existed.
Zum Wohle sagte der Fuchs zum Dohle. Noch eine Schweinehaxe bitte mit einem (or ist it einer? You guys make it so difficult on yourselves.) Helles. Das hat geschmeckt.
(My German friends better correct me before I make a fool of myself) Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt.
Ever since those Christians beheaded those Jesus Seminar professors, theologians just arent safe today. /sarcasm
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