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'text' => 'The Cross and the Crescent
<img align=\'left\'
src=\'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0670032719.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\' />
Richard Fletcher gives us a <a href=\'http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141012072,00.html\'>nice little summary</a>
of the formative years of Christian/Muslim
interaction. And they weren\'t pretty. Or simple. I highly recommend this book to anyone
interested in understanding the current conflict between Christians and Muslims.
<img align=\'right\'
src=\'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0300065116.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\' />
It\'s a sibling rivalry, similar in dynamic to the Jewish/Christian relationship.
I particularly like Jon Levenson\'s <a
href=\'http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300065116/103-6806540-9071059?v=glance\'>
book</a> on the Jewish themes of this complicated rivalry.
The most fascinating similarity is that Christians in the early years of Islam
saw it as just another Christian sect -- in much the same way that Judaism
saw early Christianity as a Jewish sect.
',
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Richard Fletcher gives us a nice little summary
of the formative years of Christian/Muslim
interaction. And they weren't pretty. Or simple. I highly recommend this book to anyone
interested in understanding the current conflict between Christians and Muslims.
It's a sibling rivalry, similar in dynamic to the Jewish/Christian relationship.
I particularly like Jon Levenson's
book on the Jewish themes of this complicated rivalry.
The most fascinating similarity is that Christians in the early years of Islam
saw it as just another Christian sect -- in much the same way that Judaism
saw early Christianity as a Jewish sect.