No one batted an eye. But just imagine the outcry if a Christian had ridden through a Muslim area calling out on a loudspeaker that Muhammad was a false prophet.
“Jesus was a Jew””not a Muslim,” a letter to the editor by Fay Cattini in the East London Advertiser, May 18 (thanks to Twostellas):
Dear Ed,
SOMETIMES people give offence to others intentionally or unintentionally. I am not sure which was the case when a white car went past my house in Spitalfields in East London with a loudspeaker calling out, “Jesus was a Muslim.”
Since I don’t know the man or where he is from, I am writing this in case he reads it as I disagree with his statement.
Jesus lived and died a Jew. We read in The New Testament that he was born a Jew, circumcised when he was eight days old, according to Jewish Law, and went to Jerusalem when he was 13 to be Bar Mitzvah.
As an adult, he observed the Jewish law and in fact said, “I have not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them.”…