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the interconnections between islam and christianity and judaism are obvious if you read the qu'ran at all. in alot of ways, islam benefitted from its 600 years of hindsight relative to christianity and tried to "get it right" by correcting for what were perceived as excesses on the part of the latter.
all you have to do is look into this even a little and it's apparent.
so the idea that xtianity and islam are radically Different is silly--but it's been a useful ideological claim for both sides--but especially for christianity, which, if you look at it's history, has a kind of xenophobia issue--to say the opposite in order to justify conflict. in this, nothing, sadly, is new.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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