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In Jiang's explanation of Dante's medieval frame, Muhammad is treated as the founder of a Christian heresy and Ali as the figure whose line produced the Sunni-Shia schism.
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Islam
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Jiang reads the rise of Islam and Muhammad through the same pattern of rival empires, messianic emergence, and Jerusalem-centered restoration.
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The revolutionary promise takes different ideological names but repeats the same game-theory offer: follow the elite faction and receive debt cancellation, land, and freedom from slavery.
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Christianity and Islam are described as paths by which many Jews remained connected to Jewish messianic hopes while adapting to Roman or Arabian worlds.
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Jiang presents Muhammad as the leader who unites Arabs, Nestorians, and Jews under religious tolerance before later factions turn the movement into Islam.
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Islam builds global trade by making Muslims trustworthy to one another, giving the Islamic Empire prosperity through religious community rather than just conquest.
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He summarizes the Islamic end-times pattern as an age of tribulation followed by a unifying leader who leads believers against Gog and Magog, which he says can be read as Western civilization or another force.
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Jewish messianic belief, meshed with Arab pagan belief in Arabia, is presented as a foundation for the modern belief of Islam.
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"...what how donnie understands this is that he thinks um that islam is just splitting off from christianity right you believe you all read..."
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"supreme leader and the sunnis believe no that's not necessarily the case okay and that caused a massive schism which continues to today okay..."
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"...next thing we have, about 600 CE, is the rise of Islam and the rise of Muhammad."
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"If you look into the history of the rise of Islam and the Muhammad, a very similar framework where there's two empires fighting each..."
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"Well, I think like the solution will be. Is to impose on you guys, right? That's why they're going to introduce the national draft...."
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"...know for the Kabbalah or for heretic philosophy or just for Islam okay it does change you as a person it makes you much..."
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"So first of all, we need to make a kind of difference because the Muslim population we have in Russia, they were Muslim from..."
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"...is the big difference. So we have no reason to hate Islam, neither inside of Russia nor outside. Most Islamic countries outside of Russia..."
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"Right. So there were some prominent terrorist attacks where Muslims, Uighurs, launched knife attacks in train stations, killing dozens of Chinese. And a lot..."
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"...well intentioned but false as this has nothing to do with islam and now i'm in the same boat with judaism"
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"and what's happening in palestine judaism and zionism judaism and things people it makes people very uncomfortable to talk about these things but i..."
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"how do we walk this tightrope i have to admit some of your language is in my mind falls off the tightrope but i..."
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