Polemicists were often quite creative in their evaluations of Islam. Some claimed that Muhammad was a pervert who took innocuous lines in the Qur'an and refashioned them to satisfy his carnal desires. In Liber Denudationis Ostensionis Aut Patefaciens, the Qur'anic instruction, "God will not take you to task for what is unintentional in your oath," was explained as, "[a] nd thus he [Muhammad] perjured himself and had sex with that woman again. See how much impiety he officially established on account of this so that he might commit adultery freely." The mythology that Prophet Muhammad was a pervert, expressed in the claims that he planned to rape the Virgin Mary in heaven and had unending supplies of semen, is an important part of the story of Muslim monsters. Originally identified with Prophet Muhammad, these fantasies were eventually attached to all Muslim men and they stuck. Today, Muslim men are often depicted as rapists and pedophiles, characterizations rooted in the Middle Ages.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 129