Seeing the Light

Germany's first professor of Islamic theology reckons Muhammad most likely never existed.

I'm no fan of the Wall Street Journal, but some of the lines in this article are quality:

"We had no idea he would have ideas like this," says Thomas Bauer, a fellow academic at Münster University who sat on a committee that appointed Prof. Kalisch. "I'm a more orthodox Muslim than he is, and I'm not a Muslim."

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He has doubts, too, about the Quran. "God doesn't write books," Prof. Kalisch says.

Even so, I think it's wrong for the paper to publish a cartoon depicting him, don't you?