The war against the Jewish story

[ShazzieB]

48. i don't think Christianity exactly "appropriated" the God of Judaism.

The founder of Christianity was a Jew and so were his first followers, or so we've been told. That implies a much more direct relationship, or at least an intertwined history, between those two religions than either has with Islam. You could say that the Jews who became Christians didn't "appropriate" anything, so much as take their belief in the God they'd always worshipped along with them.

Of course, not everyone accepts this version of the origins of Christianity, but I think it's safe to say that the current adherents of Christianity do.

Islam didn't arise till around 700 CE (iirc), and it didn't arise out of either Judaism or Christianity. Muhammad was familiar with both of those religions, however, and he evidently embraced the idea of monotheism expressed by both. I guess you could call that appropriation, but I don't know that I would.