Anti-Semites? Who, Us?

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Originally Posted by Skunks

... but I was reading an interesting book about the life of Muhammad last night, and there was an offhand comment about the troubles of the middle east. ....

But it's a very interesting, and remarkably secular, book about the early history of Islam.

Can it explain or predict, for example, an Islam world contempt of the book Satanic Verses? Does it deal with the historic Islamic tolerance of other religions verses the extremist (Muslim Brotherhood) concept of religious purity?