XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: theswain@operamail.com   
      
   Matthew Woodcraft wrote:   
   > Derek Broughton   wrote:   
   >   
   >>Steve Hayes wrote:   
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   >   
   >>>I have heard people say that the Calormenes in the Narnia books represent   
   >>>Muslims, and some have even indignantly claimed that they are a deliberate   
   >>>attempt to denigrate Muslims -- except that the Calormenes' religion in no   
   >>>way resembles Islam, though it might bear some resemblance to pre-Islamic   
   >>>religions of the Middle East.   
   >   
   >   
   >>I've always felt it bears a resemblance to a pseudo-Christian bigot's idea   
   >>of Islam.  I _hope_ Lewis didn't intend that, but I'm afraid he might have.   
   >   
   >   
   > I think it's an echo of the view of 'Saracens' found in medieval   
   > romance, worshipping a demonic trinity of Termagant, Apollyon, and   
   > Mahound.   
   >   
   > -M-   
   >   
   Ah, a reader of Song of Roland in our midst!!   
      
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