Meredith Townsend, a prominent British author of the mid to late 1800’s, writes in his book Mahommed the Great Arabian:
“Muhammad was a more thorough educator than the modern reformers whose libertarian teachings during the inter-war period in Europe could not measure up to the task of preventing tyranny and war.”
He further writes:
“….Under Muhammad….there sprang up ex necessitate rei a form of democratic equality more absolute than any the world has elsewhere.”