Political correctness dictates that all religions are of equal worth; that there are “Three Great Abrahamic Religions,” and “The Arabs are Semites too, so they can’t be anti-Semites.”  All these clichés need to be buried. While Christianity and Islam were both offshoots of the Jews and took from them the concept of having one’s own Holy Writ, their self-definitions as new faith communities were radically different.  The Coine Greek language narratives appended to the Hebrew Bible purport to be a continuation of Jewish history.  The Catholic Church even defines itself in Latin as Verus Israel, the True Israel. But Muslims make no such claim.  On the contrary, the Koran re-wrote many of the stories in the Hebrew Bible in the spirit of Islam’s doctrine that Muslims are Allah’s true chosen people.  The early Christians left Jewish Scripture intact; the Muslims did not. Christianity wanted to hold onto...(Read Full Article)