So here’s a professor who claims that Muhammad the Prophet did not exist historically.

Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn’t like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.

So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the fruit of his theological research. His conclusion: The Prophet Muhammad probably never existed.

I won’t go into research about Muhammad. That he existed or didn’t is inconsequential to the ambit of this post. Is this professor trying to sow seeds of negation? If yes, it is an extremely clever move. Looks like he must have spent some time in JNU. If he succeeds in proving that Muhammad didn’t exist, he can explain away a lot of atrocities that have roots in Islamic scriptures: the Koran and the Hadis. But the only problem is the Muslim ummah which, now already outraged, is going to chop off his head anytime.