Even hostile medieval critics admitted Muslims fell short of their founder’s worst teachings

Evidence

A strictly realistic view was rarely expressed. ‘Muhammad taught his followers more and greater evil things, in example and speech, than they perform, when they try to imitate their master’; here San Pedro spoke sensibly and fairly, definitely admitting that there were limits to the evil he was prepared to believe Muslims actually committed. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1083

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