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I came across this book, from my niece who got it as part of her degree.   The title doesn’t really describe it. The author is a professor and was challenged by one of his students  on something he said, so he looked further in to Islam, and found the big difference was that it is designed to be integrated into their lives. You don’t just accept Jesus, you see Allah in everything you do. This looks more fundamentalist to us, but I’m not so sure it is.

The other big difference is they don’t have a Pope. There’s no hierarchy to keep any kind of check on whatever wild version of Islam someone might come up with. This is the worst aspect of Protestantism. Combine that with the specific laws from the 7th century that are not tempered by all the translating and schisms like Christianity and Judaism, and it’s an ugly stew of theology.