Raymond Marti attacked Muhammad himself to recruit Arab philosophers to Christianity

Evidence

His strategy is to make the Prophet a scapegoat: it is the Prophet and his false law that he attacks, not the wisdom of subsequent Muslims. He will try to bring the Arab philosophers into the Christian camp by using their philosophical arguments against Muhammad: he cites Averroes to prove that a true prophet must produce miracles (De seta, 16). Muhammad becomes Martí’s sole (if formidable) adversary: reason, natural law, philosophy, and even much of Muslim doctrine, he tries to show, are on the Christians’ side. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1194

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: polemicists who attack only the founder, not the tradition, to win over the intellectual elite — a move of strategic seapegoating applicable to modern polemics.