Chapter 5

Myths About Islam, Muslims, and the Qur'an

First published: 03 June 2014

Summary

In this chapter, the readers see an example: fear and hatred of Muslims. Today it is called Islamophobia, a term first used in a biography of Islam's prophet Muhammad, written in French in 1918, during the French occupation of Algeria-Alphonse Etienne Dinet and Sliman ben Ibrahim's La Vie de Mohammed, Prophete d'Allah. The country with the greatest number of Muslims is Indonesia, 4000 miles from the nearest Arab country. There is widespread belief that Allah, the God worshipped by Muslims, is different from the God worshipped by other monotheists. Preachers, academics, and media personalities who attack Islam often use terms like “Islamofascism” and associate it with a “Clash of Civilizations” to make Islam seem like a strange, foreign religion hostile to Judaism and Christianity. Islam sees itself as mainstream monotheism.

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