A fascinating story at the WSJ about a German scholar, a convert to Islam actually, who has begun to argue that Muhammad probably never existed. Unfortunately it doesn’t go into the details of the argument. This is becoming quite an industry in Germany—the effort to create a historical-critical conversation about Islam. It’s long overdue, of course, but one has to doubt whether Germans, who led the way on this for Christianity, are the volks who need to be doing it in this case. Still, beggars can’t be choosers.

Interestingly, the professor’s chair was created in order to build bridges with Germany’s Muslim community.
<blockquote>Andreas Pinkwart, a minister responsible for higher education in this north German region, “the results are disappointing.”</blockquote>

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