Muslims belive, do they not, that the koran has exsited always in heaven, writteen on golden tablets.

It is not seen as a cooperativ eeffort between Mohammed and god, not an inspired book, not a book of a particular place and particular historic unfolding, but as eternal, perfect, unchanging.

So revealing it in stages is one thing, it being a historic record of ohammed's relationship to the arabs and the jews is another. Mohammed 'was revealed' one thing but if that did not work, well, wait, there's more - he was 'revealed' something more approriate to suit the changing fortunes of his career.

How to reconcile the eternal perfectness of the koran and its obvious elements of updating and following the history of Mohammed's political fortunes ? One way is the often remarked utter fatalism of Muslims, the utter lack of freedom in their heads and hearts - there is no free action possible, even for the prophet.

This is the one unmistakable sign of islam's paganism. It has not moved on from the notions of god controlling everything. And so it is also the key to undertanding why islam is a colossal misundertsanding and why it remains forever irreconcilable to judaism andd christianity.

Freedom is anathema to islam and all the other pagans but essential to judaism and christianity. Freedom is the dividing line.
Islam cannot remain islam if it accepts freedom.