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17 September 2014 A.D. 7th Century Greek Tract, Doctrina Jacobi: Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims

17 September 2014 A.D.   7 th Century Greek Tract, Doctrina Jacobi: Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims For 88 more quotes from other leaders regarding Islamo-Facism, see:   http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2014/08/25-august-2014-ad-quotations-on-islam_25.html Here’s one quote from Doctrina Jacobi. Doctrina Jacobi The Doctrina Jacobi (or 'Teaching of Jacob'), is a 7 th   century Greek Christian polemical tract written sometime between 634-640 AD. The text provides one of the earliest external accounts of Islam.   “When the candidatus was killed by the Saracens, I was at Caesarea and I set off by boat to Sykamina. People were saying "the candidatus has been killed," and we Jews were overjoyed. And they were saying that the prophet had appeared, coming with the Saracens, and that he was proclaiming the advent of the anointed one, the Christ who was to come. I, having arrived at Sykamina, stopped by a certain old man well-versed in scri...