Reply #15: This isn't about whether the Koran is 100% accurate in reproducing

[muriel_volestrangler]

Mohammed's words; it's about whether he was a religious leader at all, or just a military leader. The claim made in the link in the OP is that as Arabs from Mohammed's group conquered more territory in the Middle East, they absorbed Jewish and Christian traditions, created a new religion, and then made up a history of this coming from Mohammed many years before to give it more credibility. It would be like the official history of the USA saying George Washington wrote all of the US Constitution, abolished slavery and wrote the US anti-trust laws; and then someone claiming he was just the leader of the revolutionary army. It's a big claim - that the history of Islam has largely been made up as a convenient fiction.