Christian polemic inverted Muslim claims about the Paraclete into anti-Muslim mockery

Evidence

In an argument which sounds like a polemic stereotype, he argued that there could have been no motive for Christians to remove the name, which would have been bound to be cherished, either as the announcement of a good thing to come, or as a warning of future evil. … In a passage at the end of his book, the author argued the impossibility of taking the prophecy of the Paraclete for Muhammad. The former was the Holy Spirit and invisible and was to teach the Apostles all things; the latter was not a spirit, not invisible, and taught the Apostles nothing. Paraclete means consolator, but Muhammad, who came with the sword, was desolator rather. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 308

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘consolator’ vs ‘desolator’ pun (Muhammad came with the sword) is a genuinely funny medieval rhetorical jab.