Umiarkowany islam
Moderate Islam

Summary/Abstract: The Author emphasizes that, given the challenges facing Europe, and to a lesser extent North America – challenges resulting from an influx of Muslim immigrants who refuse assimilation and demand the right to live under their own law within the host country – it is incumbent on those who value their own traditions to become better acquainted with the newcomers. Therefore he undertakes an attempt of analyzing two different attitudes to Islam in the contemporary academic investigations. Those, who recognize Islam as a peaceful religion, seem to refer to Mohammed’s activity in Mecca. The Prophet, as a long-suffering ascetic of Mecca, delivered an eclectic composite of religious ideas and regulations, but did not establish a new religion yet. Islam came into being only in 622, when its founder was forced to leave Mecca and settle in Medina. In Medina Mohammed the Ascetic was transformed into Mohammed the Warrior, and war and victory became the means and end of his prophetic vocation. Traced the origin of Muslim religion, the Author concentrates on the historical differences between Christianity and Islam, illustrates them with several examples, and claims that they cannot be ignored to better understand a relation of the Muslim world to the Western civilization.

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