Early Christian polemics knew real Islamic facts yet distorted them into blasphemy.

Evidence

This short text shows some knowledge of Islam: it describes Muhammad’s marriage with Khadîja, the role of Gabriel in the revelation of the Qur’an, the titles of various Qur’anic Sûras, and Muhammad’s marriage to Zaynab. All these events, however, are presented in the worst possible light, twisted almost beyond recognition by the hostile pen of the author. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 526

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the reader’s existing vault claims about how Islamophobic knowledge is never ‘ignorance’ but hostile reframing of accurate facts — connects to Anidjar’s genealogy and Aziz on selective distortion.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the mechanism in the complacency/immodesty articles: moral outrage requires recognizable facts first, reframed as transgression.