The path of the prophet

Such episodes aren't new. They emphasize the ignorance about the life of Muhammad ( 570-632 ) that is rampant in Western civilization. To what extent is the average educated person familiar with the Koran? The Torah and the New Testament, in contrast, and even the Talmud are far more familiar. At the core of the so-called war on terror, and in general the tension concentrated on the Middle East and exacerbated by the crisis in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the misconception, suggested by the pope in Germany, that Islam is a religion of fanaticism and not a theology based on justice and decency. Judaism and Christianity, too, have gone through radical periods of intolerance and depreciation. The list of examples is too long: from Mas ada to the Crusades, from the sect of the Essenes to the edicts of expulsion of ethnic groups from Spain, Portugal, and England.