Sorry to get back to a subject I had promised to finish with...

...but I found out some new facts.
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To Kikei

The way to silence me on a matter of principle - or, at least, to come close - is not, as a few people have found out before now, to threaten or insult or cyber-mob me. These things work on me by the law of contraries. But if someone I really care for asks me to moderate or abandon my position, because it is painful for her (or him), I will find it very hard not to do so. Gentleness does for me what threats never will: it is very hard for me to look in the eye of a friend and tell them - you are wrong, you are even disastrously wrong, and I am under an obligation to everything that is true and beautiful to oppose you. Which is why I have taken two days to even drop this little note in response to your answer to my last post. I have no time to answer it in depth, as I am late with a RL job. I will in the near future, I hope; and to clarify my position, I will give my view as a historian and a non-Muslim of Muhammad's place in history, and of the religion he founded.