Medieval polemic fused Muhammad’s alleged fraud with violence into one inseparable double crime

Evidence

In its public aspect Muhammad’s crime was a double one; Fra Fidenzio expressed this well when he said that Muhammad, because he had few supporters, used a double contrivance, of fiction and of oppression, to gain a larger following. From the fiction of prophethood it was never possible to separate the oppression by torce and violence which was always associated with the ‘kingship’ of Medina; but, important as this was thought to be, detailed knowledge of the Medinan period was rare. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 526

Categorization

• XREF: The fiction-violence coupling that recurs in modern Islamophobia (Islam spread by sword = conquest ideology fraud) has a direct medieval template here — feeds the vault genealogy of the lying + violent Muslim double accusation.