Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or 'surrender' as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from non-believers into the bargain.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or 'surrender' as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from non-believers into the bargain." in the context of "Ernest Renan, in Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume, p. 129" to mean that wisdom is timeless.