Islam Is Repackaged Polytheism: Documentation
Mohammad Khalifa, The Sublime Qur'an and Orientalism, p. 140, 1983, Muslim
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Is it not unfortunate that so many Orientalists have misinterpreted the Muslim's veneration of the Ka'bah, the Black Stone and the pilgrimage rites as a whole, imagining them as some kind of idol worship, or dismissing the rites as silly, ridiculous or merely the relics of idolatrous superstition? Another faulty assumption is that the rites of pilgrimage were remnants of a pre-Islamic cult included by the Prophet in an attempt to reconcile the idolatrous Meccans with the faith. (Mohammad Khalifa, The Sublime Qur'an and Orientalism, p. 140, 1983, Muslim).
