Did Muhammad really exist, or was he a myth?  Western scholars have taken upon themselves to disprove what 1.5 billion people believe, which is that their prophet was flesh and blood. This article brings Monty Python into the conversation. There is a strange, self-defeating trend going on in Western scholarship related to Islam and Muhammad, and such odd conclusions have been drawn from their work that the only way to deal with it properly is to turn to Monty Python. This new scholarship questions if Muhammad ever lived and speculates that he may have been a myth created by Arabs to give an Arab face to a religion that evolved far away from Western Arabia as an offshoot of Christian sect that rejected the divinity of Jesus.  These scholars attempt to put the cart before the horse: Arab followers of this sect conquered wide swathes of territory, then conspired to justify their violent, expansionist practices by creating the character of a warlord founder who communed...(Read Full Article)