It's time to set the record straight in no uncertain terms. (That after all was the thrust of my proposal that evening on the faculty floor.) Reading Karen Armstrong's Muhammad: Prophet for Our Time can help. In fact, Armstrong's book would be required reading in the course I proposed. Without ever mentioning liberation theology, it reveals Muhammad as the champion of the poor and oppressed that Christianity's liberation theology shows Jesus to have been.
(Next posting: "Muhammad as Liberationist Prophet")
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