Re: Termangent/Virago


"Arcadian Rises" <Arcadianrises@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 3, 11:53?am, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Grrr wrote:
bri...@xxxxxxx <bri...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

The laughable ignorance of Medieval European Christians about
Islam
led them to imagine Muslims worshiping a false Trinity of
"Tervagan,"
"Mahun" (Muhammed), and "Apollin" (Apollo).

Since Christians have a Trinity, I guess they naturally would
assume
every other religion has one. [...]

I think there's more to it than that. Islam was presented as an
anti-Christian religion, so it would have needed to be described in
closely parallel terms. ("Anti-", of course, doesn't simply mean
"hostile to" in "antiChrist".) It was part of Crusader propaganda.
Nonetheless, ignorance of Islam remains laughable among the
Euro-American plebs.

Especially among Greeks, after several centuries of Ottoman
occupation?

But why is ignorance in other people's religion "laughable"?
I find ignorance in contemporary Arabic literature or philosophy much
more deplorable, (or should I say laughable?) than ignorance in Islam.


You misunderstand. "Laughable ignorance of x" is not synonymous with
"ignorance of x is laughable". The ignorance of Islam we see both in
this group and in the world outside is sometimes of the laughable kind,
and sometimes not.

--
Mike.



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