Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
1) Islam recognises Jesus as a major prophet, but not (I think?) as the son of God.
2) Islam is the religion of the decendants of Hagar in the Old testament. (The woman who got kicked out into the desert by Jacob, together with her son She gets treated in a terrible way, in my opinion! ).
Point 1: Absolutely correct, as bitpicker has noted. In fact, Jesus Christ is praised in the highest terms in all Islamic texts. And the first time I read about Saint Mary in Quran, I was almost moved to tears. True, that was long ago...

Point 2: I don't know about the Christian sources, but according to the Islamic sources, Hagar was left in the desert by Abraham (not Jacob, who was Abraham's grandson, I think). Mohammad was a descendant of Ismael, Hagar's son.