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Edward Said’s ”Orientalism” (Part 2/3)

Theory & Philosophy

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What Are the Unappreciated Qualities of a Human?

The point of Muhammad was to rally people behind the Islamic cause against Europe. People in Europe sought to defang the Orient, at least the perceived threat of the Orient. So these were efforts to tacitly defang and de-claw anything that was seen as being threatening about the Orient. The fraud of Muhammad is just being a political figure, which obviously none of that is true.

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