XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
    skrev i meddelandet   
   news:1176529627.858729.106910@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...   
   > Morgil wrote:   
   >> How about that thing where these West Asian people   
   >> come up with an evil plot to make it look like their   
   >> bloodthirsty demon-god was in fact the same person as   
   >> the benevolent Aslan, to get the more naiive Narnians   
   >> to accept him. Do you think that points to ancient   
   >> Mesopotamians or Persians too, and has nothing to do   
   >> with how pseudo-Christian bigots would view Islam?   
   >   
   > If there is a parallel to pseudo-Christian bigots view of Islam, I   
   > have no idea what it is.  Were there really, in Lewis' day pseudo-   
   > Christian bigots fomenting conspiracy theories about Muslims hatching   
   > plots to delude Christians into believing that Mohammed and Jesus were   
   > the same person?  Do such conspiracies, or conspiracy theories, exist   
   > today?  Or have I incorrectly stated whatever analogy you have in   
   > mind?   
      
   Not necessarily, but there was (and is) the traditional Muslim belief that   
   the God of the Muslims and the God of the Christians and the God of the Jews   
   is the same God; it's only that the Christians and Jews do not possess   
   perfect understanding of God's will (as far as that is humanly possible),   
   whereas Muslims do. According to Islam, the holy texts given by God to the   
   Jews and the Christians were misunderstood and corrupted. All this is   
   explicitly stated in the Koran. It was for that reason that monotheists   
   (Jews, Christians and Parsees) were permitted to live in Muslim countries as   
   "dhimm" ("protected peoples"): they were "ahl al-kitab" ("People of the   
   Book"). It's hard to believe that Lewis did not have that in mind at all   
   when there is such a perfect match between his "Tashlan" theme and the   
   traditional Muslim attitude towards Christians and other monotheists.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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