Crusade-era polemic framed Islam as carnally licentious and militarily coercive against Christian love

Evidence

Oliver contrasts Muhammad’s life and law with those of Christ. The way to heaven, he asserts, is through chastity; your polygamy is the path to hell. Your prophet taught you that those who were killed by their enemies would go straight to a heaven replete with carnal delights; “our teacher” taught us to love our enemy in hopes of attaining a purely spiritual reward in the next life. “Your doctor,” who was taught by a Jew and an apostate monk named Sergius, ordered to conquer by the sword all who did not recognize him. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1036

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christian polemicists portrayed medieval Muslim sexuality as wholly unregulated; The carnal Paradise was the central symbol of Christian anti-Islam polemic