[Cronos]

That seems quite true, considering when you read theKoran, you see tracts from obviously Nestorian or more significantly Arian thoughts. Also, Mo doesn't seem to have understood the teachings clearly as he messes up Revelations with the Gospels (in describing the birth of Christ, he talks about a woman giving birth under a tree -- straight from Revelations) and he also puts in bits like Abraham sacrificing Ishmael not Isaac (since Ish is supposed to be the ancestor of NajdArabs) and making it seem like Abe came first to Mecca to pray and made the Zam-Zam well.

A very interesting read is how Arabic is derived from Syriac (Nestorian monks) and how when reading theKoran in Syriac, you read something else in the text

[caww]

Your post on the language used is interesting Cronos. Having not indulged much in languages is there a website or article which elaborates on what you stated here?

There is the concept of “Allnasech and Almansuch” where certain verses in the Quaran especially the later ones, cancel the meaning of other earlier verses on a similar subject. Thus they end up with the violent verses which cancel out the meaning of the peaceful verses, as the violent verses were proclaimed by Mohammed at a later time.

Therefore it isn’t surprising to find the outcome of Islam is almost always violent.