Moderate Christian commentators casually called mosques synagogues of Satan
Evidence
Christians would always feel a pleasure if not a duty in the desecration of mosques: âsynagogues of Satanâ, as one not especially immoderate commentator called them. The mere presence of one, ?dolum abominationis, desecrated the holy mountain, Sinai. â Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 635
Categorization
- XREF: âSynagogues of Satanâ collapsing mosque and synagogue into one idolatrous Other is a concrete medieval antecedent of the vaultâs claim that âIslamâ is genealogically grafted onto the Jew as the Westâs constitutive outside. â connects to: A prominent Southern Baptist leader called the riotersâ Christianity satanic â Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 130
- QUESTION: Does the âsynagogues of Satanâ phrase (Revelation language) show Christians reading mosques through a pre-existing anti-Jewish template rather than inventing a fresh category?