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As long as you can observe where modern Islam has deviated from the message in their own book, and give the "violent" parts of it the same amount of discretion that you give the "violent" parts of the OT, you might begin to see some synchronicity between it and the bible.
It was Islam who put Mohammad on a pedestal, the same way some of Christianity put Paul or Mary on a pedestal.
I don't see in the writing myself that Mohammad himself had it in his mind to hijack Jesus's fame.
It appears to me in the Koran when Mohammad condones highway robbery, it is as figurative as when God told OT men to spoil cities.
But admittedly, I have not read the whole book.
It was Islam who put Mohammad on a pedestal, the same way some of Christianity put Paul or Mary on a pedestal.
I don't see in the writing myself that Mohammad himself had it in his mind to hijack Jesus's fame.
It appears to me in the Koran when Mohammad condones highway robbery, it is as figurative as when God told OT men to spoil cities.
But admittedly, I have not read the whole book.