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After a vailiant struggle, while being full of humour and tenderness, surrounded by his family and his beloved, Professor Dr. Johannes J. G. (Hans) Jansen passed away peacefully on May 5.
* Amsterdam, November 17, 1942 Zwolle, May 5, 2015
Obituary Prof. Emeritus Hans Jansen, Dutch arabist
Hans Jansen was an eminent scholar with a worldwide reputation for his research into
islamic doctrine and thinking. As befits a scholar he was not satisfied with fairytales. So Hans continued to work to help break down the myth of multiculturalism and in particular of the peaceful pretense of Islam.
Hans discovered such a grave calendar error in the work of Muhammad’s biographer Ibn Ishaq that it is justifiable to conclude that the whole story was written with the sole intention to create the figure of Mohammed and to depict this figure as the messenger of God and final prophet:
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