Eulogius fabricated the claim that Muhammad would deflower the Virgin Mary in the afterlife

Evidence

Eulogius deforms Muhammad’s biography to fit the standard biographies of Antichrist. He is certainly not ignorant of what Muslims say about their prophet; he simply chooses to present the elements of Muhammad’s life that fit the image of Antichrist. One of the favorite topics of Christian polemicists is sex: Muhammad’s wives, Muslim polygamy, and the celestial houris promised to the faithful. All this is foreign to the ideal of Christian celibacy and to Christian ideas of heaven, but it fits well with the doctrines traditionally attributed to Antichrist. Eulogius has more trouble explaining the Koran’s affirmation of the virginity of Jesus’ mother. Here, again, his solution is a gross deformation: “I will not repeat the sacrilege which that impure dog [Muhammad] dared proffer about the Blessed Virgin, Queen of the World, holy mother of our venerable Lord and Savior. He claimed … that in the next world he would deflower her.” This outrageous claim, it seems, is Eulogius’s invention; I know of no other Christian polemicist who makes this accusation against Muhammad. Eulogius fabricates lies designed to shock his Christian reader. This way, even those elements of Islam that resemble Christianity (such as reverence of Jesus and his virgin mother) are deformed and blackened, so as to prevent the Christian from admiring anything about the Muslim other. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 531

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why was the fabricated deflowering claim unique to Eulogius? Did any later Christian polemicist adopt or repudiate it?
• FICTION: A propaganda engine that converts genuine similarities into reasons for greater enmity — defaming a rival precisely at the points of overlap — is a powerful dynamic for a contrarian political story.
• XREF: connects to: The Virgin Mary replaced goddesses with a male-serving image of woman — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 367