Protestant apologists drew forced parallels between Islam and Lutheranism

Evidence

Reland ridiculed the parallel drawn between Islam and Lutheranism by Vivaldo, and certainly many of the points are incredibly thin, e.g. that Muslims reduce Lent to a month, and Lutherans (by which he seems to designate all Protestants indiscriminately) abolish it altogether. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2438

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Luther and the Reformers saw the Turk as a sharper Antichrist than the Pope; Luther conflated the Pope and the Turk as twin Anti-Christs despite thin resemblance