`::* has it right.  You can't say it ``grew out of`` or ``is based on`` just because some other religion came first.  You also can't make that claim because of Islam's express  in fact it was founded upon  rejection of all Christian beliefs (as expressed in the Necene crede), rejection of the Bible's New Testament, embracing of Mohammed, creation some 600 years after beginning of Christianity, and adoption of an entirely new text (speaking from the historical perspective) in the Koran.   July 8, 2005 04:05 (UTC)  `