TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nickel,Gordon
TI  - The gentle amswer: to the Muslim accusation to biblical falsification
SN  - 9780993997211
AV  - BP172 
U1  - BP 172 NIC 23/eng/20220609
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Bruton Gate Calgary
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and antisemitism
KW  - Islamophobia
N1  - Includes Index
N2  - "Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing hatred of Jews. Hatred of Jews and hatred of Muslims have been intertwined in Christian thought since the rise of Islam. In Jewish Muslims, David M. Freidenreich explores the history of this complex, perplexing, and emotionally fraught phenomenon. He makes the compelling case that, then and now, hate-mongers target 'them' in an effort to define 'us.' Analyzing anti-Muslim sentiment in texts and images produced across Europe and the Middle East over a thousand years, the author shows how Christians intentionally distorted reality by alleging that Muslims are just like Jews. They did so not only to justify assaults against Muslims on theological grounds but also to motivate fellow believers to live as 'good' Christians. The disdain premodern polemicists expressed for Islam and Judaism was never really about these religions. They sought to promote their own visions of Christianity--a dynamic that similarly animates portrayals of Muslims and Jews today"--
ER  -