Muhammad seems to have lived a life of anger, generated in part by a fragmented family life, but fed by a growing rejection of his religion and his very person. Perhaps one of his finest moments of anger - and anger can bring good moments - was his appearance in the Holy Place in Mecca, when he returned to take over the city. Except for certain icons of the life of Jesus, every statue and picture in that place was destroyed, as Muhammad declared there is only one god.

Jesus had a similar moment in the Temple at Jerusalem. Here, the enemy was not all the world's religions. It was the activities of those calling themselves the people of God inside Judaism. People making a profit on the commandments, the rituals, the prescribed sacrifices of Moses.

So Muhammad attempts to rid the world of false religion, Jesus tries to cleanse His own people.

It's an important distinction, I think. The current religious situation has not changed. Islam self-righteously goes from nation to nation proclaiming that Allah and Muhammad need to be accepted. Jesus persists in visiting each heart and each church that will allow Him in, preparing His people for the New World He will soon establish.