10-24-2006, 08:23 AM
Looks like Christian missionaries have always disliked Mohammed.
Writes Saint Francis Xaviour about Japan in Jan 1549:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->... This nation eats all kinds of food and does not practice circumcision; so that it would appear that the Gospel had been preached in the country, and that on account of sins the light of faith had been obscured, andthen some <span style='color:red'>HERETIC LIKE MAHOMET</span> had taken it away altogether. ...
http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=1&id=...PA215&lpg=PA215
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Writes Saint Francis Xaviour about Japan in Jan 1549:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->... This nation eats all kinds of food and does not practice circumcision; so that it would appear that the Gospel had been preached in the country, and that on account of sins the light of faith had been obscured, andthen some <span style='color:red'>HERETIC LIKE MAHOMET</span> had taken it away altogether. ...
http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=1&id=...PA215&lpg=PA215
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