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One can view Islam as the successor to Christianity...
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This level of ignorance and reductionism is astonishing....
This is arguably a self-description of the Islamic faith. Not necessarily worded perfectly, but its a short post on a cycling forum not a textbook.
References:
https://www.al-islam.org/articles/islam-first-and-last-religion-mansour-leghaei
Al-Biruni's work
and of course WikipediaWhen he was about 40 years old, he began receiving at mount Hira' what Muslims regard as divine revelations delivered through the angel Gabriel, which would later form the Quran. These inspirations urged him to proclaim a strict monotheistic faith, as the final expression of Biblical prophetism earlier codified in the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity;
I edited the above as my reply was too ad-hominem.
The post regarding your studies seems out of character, and my inclusion of it in my reply added nothing.
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