German Islamic Scholar says Muhammad never existed

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Snippets from an interesting article.

Scandal exposes Islam's weakness
By Spengler
from http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JK18Aa01.html

"Kalisch recently laid a Gnostic egg in the nest of Islam, declaring that the Prophet Mohammed never existed, not at least in the way that the received version of Islamic tradition claims he did. Given that Kalisch holds an academic chair specifically funded to instruct teachers of Islam in Germany's school system, ...

Kalisch is a Gnostic, a believer in secret spiritual truths that undergird the myths manufactured for the edification of the peasantry. But he is a German Gnostic, and therefore feels it necessary to lay out his secrets in thorough academic papers with extensive footnotes and bibliography. It is a strange and indirect way of validating the dictum of the great German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig: Islam is a parody of Judaism and Christianity.
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This, Kalisch observes, is extremely suspicious: how can a world religion
have erupted in a virtual literary vacuum? A great religion, moreover, inevitably throws off heresies: where are the early Islamic heretics and Gnostics? Later Islamic theologians knew the titles of some of their works, but the content itself was lost. "The only explanation for the disappearance is that it had long since become unusable theologically," he alleges of certain Shi'ite sources."

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looks like a strange boring load of babble

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where are the early Islamic heretics and Gnostics?

Islam wouldn't have allowed such things in its early days. Anyone with a different take on Islam like that would have been killed quickly.