Jennifer Williams is a great enthusiast not just for Christmas, but for the Muslim Jesus, about whom she is sure you have never heard, and she’s here to enlighten you:
Christmas, as everyone knows, commemorates the birth of Jesus and is a major religious celebration for Christians around the world.
But what many people don’t know is that Jesus is an important figure in Islam, too, even though most Muslims don’t celebrate Christmas (though some, especially some American Muslims, do).
Actually, by now many Infidels all over the Western world do know perfectly well that Jesus is a figure of significance in Islam. They know this because it is a staple of Muslim propaganda. Just look here or here or here.
We are told again and again about Jesus in the Qur’an (just google “Jesus in the Qur’an”), of how revered he is, of the fact that he is mentioned 27 times by name, of how much attention, too, is given to his mother Mary, who has a sura named after her. And these exercises in taqiyya proceed in the same fashion: to exaggerate the significance of the Muslim Jesus, so as to make it seem as if he is more than just a prophet, and the reverence in which he and Mary are held, so as to divert attention of Christians from the basic ineluctable fact, which is that while Muslims respect Jesus, as a prophet, they deny him any divinity, and are commanded in the Qur’an to view those — the Christians –who believe He is the Son of God, with scorn, hostility, even murderous hatred.
One of the efforts this year to convince Christians of the important role of Jesus (and Mary) in Islam was by Vox’s Williams, who was so fond of what she posted last Christmas on the subject that she reprinted it, without change, this year. Its brisk and cheerful mendacity is worth a look.
Here is Jennifer Williams, and all she thinks you need to know about the Muslim version of Jesus:
In honor of the holiday, here are six things you may not know about the role of Jesus — and his mother, Mary — in Islam:
Jesus, Mary, and the angel Gabriel are all in the Quran (as are Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and a bunch of other Bible characters).
Muslims believe that Jesus (called “Isa” in Arabic) was a prophet of God, was born to a virgin (Mary), and will return to Earth before the Day of Judgment to restore justice and to defeat al-Masih ad-Dajjal (“the false messiah”), also known as the Antichrist. All of which may sound pretty familiar to many Christians.
Mary (called “Maryam” in Arabic) has an entire chapter in the Quran named for her — the only chapter in the Quran named for a female figure. In fact, Mary is the only woman to be mentioned by name in the entire Quran: As noted in the Study Quran, “other female figures are identified only by their relation to others, such as the wife of Adam and the mother of Moses, or by their title, such as the Queen of Sheba.” Mary is mentioned more times in the Quran than in the entire New Testament.
Just as with all the other prophets, including Mohammed, Muslims recite, “Peace be upon him” every time they refer to Jesus.
The name “Jesus, son of Mary” written in Arabic calligraphy, followed by “peace be upon him.” بلال الدويك
Muslims believe that Jesus performed miracles: The Quran discusses several of Jesus’s miracles, including giving sight to the blind, healing lepers, raising the dead, and breathing life into clay birds.
So we learn that one of the 114 suras of the Qur’an is named after Mary and that she is mentioned “more times in the Qur’an than in the New Testament.” To which one wants to reply: So what? If a sura is named after her, and if she is mentioned “more times in the Qur’an than in the New Testament,” that hardly means she is more important in Islam than in Christianity. For Christians, she is the Mother of the Son of God; for Muslims, she is only the mother of Jesus, a man and not a divinity, one of the 25 prophets mentioned by name in the Qur’an (there are tens of thousands of prophets in Islam). If she is mentioned, as Mary, “more times” in the Qur’an than in the New Testament, that is because in the Christian Bible there are other ways she is referred to, not just as “Mary,” but also as the “Mother of God” or “Mother of Jesus.’”
It is absurd to draw any conclusion about the relative importance of various figures in Islam based on the number of times they are named in the Qur’an.. Muhammad, for example, is mentioned exactly four times by name. Moses (Musa) is mentioned 136 times in the Qur’an. Jesus is mentioned 25 times. Does that mean that Moses is 5.44 times as important as Jesus and 34 times as important as Muhammad? Or that Jesus is 6 times as important as the Prophet Muhammad? Of course not.
Ms. Williams says that Muslims believe that Jesus performed miracles. Again, so what? Islam has borrowed — appropriated — many figures and stories from the two prior-in-time monotheisms. Islam borrowed Jesus, stripped him of his divinity, refashioned him into an islamized Jesus, a Jesus who is a Muslim. (Moses, too, is a Muslim). Having appropriated him, it is hardly surprising that some aspects of his Biblical being would be retained. And so we find Jesus described in the Qur’an as performing some of the same miracles as he is described as performing in the New Testament: “The Quran discusses several of Jesus’s miracles, including giving sight to the blind, healing lepers, raising the dead, and breathing life into clay birds.” Isn’t this an attempt to suggest that while Muslims do not accept Jesus as the Son of God, they are certainly most impressed with the miracles — forsooth! — he can perform. Jesus is a miracle-worker. At least give Muslims credit, you begrudging Christians, for recognizing that.
Finally, the story of Jesus’s birth as told in the Qur’an is given in great detail, of how Mary “withdrew from her family” and gave birth though, as she declares, “no man has touched me,” and of the miracle of Jesus speaking as an infant in the cradle who “declared himself to be a prophet of God.” Again there is an attempt to make much of the similarities in the birth scenes in Islam and Christianity, and again we have to remind ourselves that in one case Jesus is the Son of God, and in the other, he is a mortal, one among the 25 prophets named in the Qur’an. And that has made all the difference.
Let’s consider what Christians need to know about Islam’s view of their faith. Not how many times Mary is mentioned in the Qur’an, not that a sura is named after her, not that Jesus (like Moses, Adam, Noah), is one of the figures appropriated by Islam and viewed as a prophet, and in Jesus’ case capable of working miracles. No, what we most need to know is how Muslims are taught to regard Christians and Christianity, which is something Jennifer Williams won’t tell you.
Here are some of the Qur’anic verses about Christians:
The Christians are told that Jesus is only a messenger of Allah, not his Son:
“O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say, ‘Three’; desist — it is better for you. Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.” — Qur’an 4:171
Allah did not have a son; he had no need of one; by himself he could accomplish anything and needed no others beside him:
“It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” — Qur’an 19:35
Christians are wrong — Jesus was not crucified:
“And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger — they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.” — Qur’an 4:157
Those who believe in the divinity of Christ are “disbelievers”:
“They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary.” — Qur’an 5:17
Christians “forgot a good part” of the divine revelations they received:
“From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them [the Christians], with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is they have done.” — Qur’an 5:14
Those who believe that Jesus is God’s Son are accursed:
“The Jews call ‘Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! ” — Qur’an 9:30
Christians who do not become Muslims “are the most vile of created beings”:
“Nor did those who were given the Scripture become divided until after there had come to them clear evidence. And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah. And that is the correct religion. Indeed, they who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the most vile of created beings.” — Qur’an 98:6
It’s not enough to despise them. Muslims must fight against and subjugate Christians :
“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29
Propagandists for Islam are out in force this Christmas season, telling us, like Ms. Williams, that Muslims have so much in common with Christians: they revere Mary, they revere Jesus as an important prophet, they share the Christian belief that Jesus could perform miracles and, indeed, the Muslim Jesus performs some of the same miracles that the Christian Jesus does.
But the Qur’an says other, disturbing things, about Christians and Christianity. Jesus was only a messenger, not the Son of God. God (Allah) had no need of a son. Jesus was not crucified.
Those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God are not only disbelievers, but have Allah’s curse upon them. Christians who do not become Muslims “are the most vile of created beings.” Muslims must fight and subjugate all Christians, and then offer them the choice, to be killed, to convert to Islam, or to accept the status of dhimmi, with all its onerous conditions.
That is the uncompromising Islamic doctrine concerning Christians: hostility (“take them not as friends”), contempt and hatred (they are “the most vile of creatures”), and jihad (“fight those who believe not in Allah,” “strike terror” in their hearts). Of course there is not the slightest hint of any of this in Jennifer Williams’s Christian-friendly version of Islam.
But perhaps we are being unfair. Perhaps, in practice if not in doctrine, Muslims have shown how profoundly they respect those others who revere Jesus and Mary? What happened in the Middle East and North Africa, in lands once peopled almost entirely by Christians which were conquered by Muslims? How many millions of Christians were killed in those lands? How many Christians were kidnapped from Europe over the centuries by Muslim marauders who arrived by sea? How many of those Christians, both those whose lands were conquered, and those who were seized from coastal villages in Europe, and brought back to Dar al-Islam, subsequently converted to Islam, only in order to escape the status of dhimmi which many found unendurable?
We need not go back that far. Even if we limit ourselves to recent decades, what have we observed of Muslim behavior toward Christians — Copts, Catholics, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Orthodox — in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Egypt, in Pakistan, in Nigeria, in the Sudan, in Somalia, in Bangladesh? Is there any Muslim-majority country where Christians have not been subject to attack and murder? Muslims “revere” Jesus, all right, but only as a prophet, and are told by their Qur’an that those who revere him as the Son of God are Unbelievers who should be killed.
In just the last few weeks, in Pakistan, Muslim terrorists attacked a church in Quetta, killing nine worshipers, one of many attacks on Christians in that country. A Muslim plot to blow up a cathedral in St. Petersburg was narrowly averted by the Russians, thanks to American intelligence. Christian families have this month been executed in Nigeria, and whole villages have been destroyed by Boko Haram. Christians have been murdered this fall by the hundreds in Iraq and in Syria, and not only by members of ISIS. In Egypt, ever since the fall of Morsi, attacks on the Copts have increased, with 65 churches, convents, Christian bookshops and schools attacked. Coptic pilgrims have been murdered on buses, worshipers murdered in church, individual Copts — storekeepers, pedestrians — attacked in shops or on the streets, Coptic priests hacked to death, and Copts are now living in such fear that the government has felt it necessary to mobilize tens of thousands of security personnel, including the army, to protect them during their Christmas observance that begins in January. In the last few years, 200,000 Copts have fled the country.
During the Sudanese civil war, hundreds of thousands of Christian black Africans in the south were slaughtered by Muslim Arabs from the north. In Iraq, with the removal of the secular dictator Saddam Hussein (who had his own reasons for protecting the Christians), the Christian population has since 2003 plummeted from 1.4 million to 250,000. It has been the same in Syria, where in 2011 there were 1.25 million Christians and now there are 450,000. The murderous attacks on Christians by ISIS — and by other Muslims, too — account for part of that drop; the rest is due to Christians leaving for safe havens in the West.
And with tens of millions of Muslims now in Europe, a transformation in that continent is also taking place. Just look, for one example, at the Christmas season as it is now celebrated. Muslims began targeting Christmas markets even before 9/11. The first (aborted) attempt was in December 2000, when four Al-Qaeda operatives plotted to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas market, held right in front of the cathedral. Ever since then, security for these Christmas celebrations has been ratcheted up. Last year Muslim terrorists killed twelve people at the main Christmas market in Berlin. And this year, the effects of that Berlin attack have been everywhere evident. In France, fear of attacks by Muslims has led to the cancellation of the most famous Christmas market, that held on the Champs-Elysees, in Paris. The Christmas market in Lyons has similarly been called off due to the cost of security. In Germany, two of the country’s famed Christmas markets have also been cancelled. Even where the markets are still being held, crowds of Muslim young men disrupt the celebrations, change the holiday atmosphere to one of fear. In Bad Doberan, despite having been deliberately disrupted by “Palestinian” protesters playing loud Arabic music, the market has so far not been closed. In Italy, a town removed its Christmas tree in order not to offend local Muslims. In the U.K., a plot to blow up a major Christmas Market was narrowly averted. So was an attack on a cathedral in St. Petersburg. What was once a festive occasion for Europe’s Christians has become, in many places, a fearful one, because of Muslim threats that in turn require a large and expensive security presence. Because of the use of cars and trucks in terrorist attacks, many of the markets have erected bollards to provide “hostile vehicle mitigation.” Police and military armed with machine guns patrol the Christmas markets in France and the U.K.and Germany — a sight which reminds people of the omnipresent terrorist threat from Muslims, and is hardly conducive to the Christmas spirit.
When Muslims are commanded, in the Qur’an, “not to take Jews and Christians as friends, for they are friends only with each other,” when they are told to “kill them [the Unbelievers] wherever you find them,” when they are told to “smite at their [the Unbelievers’] necks,” when they are told that Unbelievers are “the most vile of creatures,” and to “strike terror” in the Infidels’ hearts, when a hundred other verses tell Muslims to engage in violent Jihad, we can safely assume — the historical record offers plenty of evidence — that many Muslims take these verses to heart and when they can act on them, they do.
The frequency of the name “Mary” in the Qur’an, the fact that the Muslim Jesus performs some of the same miracles (but not, of course, the water into wine at the wedding in Cana) that he does in the New Testament, and that he is a “revered prophet” for Muslims, does not change one whit those commands in the Qur’an for Believers to strike at the necks of Infidels, to kill them, to strike terror in their hearts, nor does that reverence for Jesus as a prophet in any way lessen the deep hostility Muslims have demonstrated for Christians over the past 1400 years of Muslim-Christian encounters. That grim history supports the melancholy conclusion that observant Muslims do not mean non-Muslims well. If there is ever to be any chance of Muslim reformation (for now a very doubtful proposition), it will have to start with an honest assessment of the texts and teachings of the faith, by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Jennifer Williams and many others have tried to convince us that, in its view of Jesus and Mary, Islam teaches a deep respect for Christianity. It does not. Islam teaches respect only for a Muslim version of Jesus as prophet, and contempt, and far worse than contempt, for those who believe in Jesus as the Son of God.
CRUSADER says
Santa ibn MoHamHead ?
Karen says
Sadly, many well-meaning Christians with little discernment will read Ms. Williams’ pitch piece and think, “awww…isn’t that nice?”, not realizing the critical differences she deliberately failed to mention.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Karen.
Michael Copeland says
Thank you for this useful distillation.
“Islam teaches respect only for a Muslim version of Jesus as prophet, and contempt, and far worse than contempt, for those who believe in Jesus as the Son of God.”
“….between us and you enmity and hatred forever….” Koran 60:4, part of Islamic law.
mortimer says
Jesus in the Koran is fanciful, fabricated and fictitious as St. Joan in the play by George Bernard Shaw.
The most important element of Koranic Jesus is that his life is the GREATEST case of TAQIYYA by Allah!
Allah deceived Christians about the crucifixion and resurrection… led the Christians down the garden path until they had created the largest religion on earth … only so that Muslims can hunt them down like bounty hunters … then enslave the Christians, behead them, rape them, extort money from them and finely exterminate them completely as well as all pigs.
This absurd story is firmly believed by Muslims … the taqiyya of the Koran’s lies is beyond MONUMENTAL!
gravenimage says
Jay Boo, understanding what Muslims believe is not the same as agreeing with it. Mortimer makes it quite clear that he does not.
Marty says
Mr. Spencer, one correction. Mary is never referred to as “mother of God” in the bible.
That comes from the RC catechism.
Robert Spencer says
Thanks, I’m aware. You, however, seem unaware of the fact that I am not the author of this piece. It was written by Hugh Fitzgerald.
gravenimage says
Merry Christmas to you, Robert–and to Hugh Fitzgerald, Christine Douglass-Williams, Andrew Harrod, Jamie Glazov, and all the other contributors to Jihad Watch, their loved ones and friends!
dumbledoresarmy says
Seconding that. Merry Christmas to you, Mr Spencer, and your family and friends and colleagues. Thank you all for all the work you do.
gravenimage says
And Merry Christmas to you and yours, Dumbledore’s Army!
thomas says
Clarification: while Mary in the New Testament is not called “Mother of GOD”, she is called “Mother of my LORD” by her auntie Elisabeth (Luke 1:43)
theopholus says
Actually Marty; the discussion at the Council of Ephesus in AD 431 was around the meaning of “Theotokos” which means God Bearer. So unless you don’t believe that Jesus is God, the term mother of god is no problem. Read, if you haven’t, Luke ch.1:30-35, and Isaiah 9:6 a fulfillment of Luke 1:30-35. Biblical but not Catholic.
Kwai Ying says
Muslim jesus is an imposter..in bed with “Queen of Mother Mary”, not bible Mary
Kwai Ying says
Yes swinging fr trees is greater..a feat for ordinary prophets LOL. Pbuh
CogitoErgoSum says
I recommend this video by David Wood on the subject of Islam and Jesus. It will cost you about 34 minutes of your life but well worth the price if you wish to learn more about Jesus and the Quran and the Truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2tYAgboOrI
mortimer says
This video by D. Wood does an excellent job of illustrating the TAQIYYA OF ALLAH in tricking Christians about the life of Jesus … Christians never caught on that Jesus was ‘ACTUALLY’ a Muslim… the Koran implies Christians were set up by Allah to go astray and then Allah (the grim prankster) has despatched the Muslims to ‘punish’ the Christians because they were deceived by Allah.
“they deceived and Allah deceived and Allah is the best deceiver.” (Q. 3:54) (khairu l-makirina)
وَمَكَرُواْ وَمَكَرَ اللّهُ وَاللّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ khayru l-mākirīna
Shmoovie says
A great time for a David Wood video; especially one that goes so well with Hugh Fitzgerald’s response to this dhimm-witted or deceptive (don’t know which is worse anymore) writer.
Thank you for posting!
CogitoErgoSum says
Thank you …. and a merry and blessed Christmas to you and to all.
gravenimage says
David Wood is great. Everyone should check out his fine work.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes. indeed.
CogitoErgoSum says
By the way David has a video concerning the artist Vincent Van Gogh that I just came across. I am in awe of the insight David has and his ability to communicate his thoughts. I don’t want to overdo the posting of links to videos so I will only leave a suggestion that if you go to YouTube and do a search for “Vincent van Gogh and the Gospel (David Wood)” you should find it … and perhaps you will also find it as moving as I did.
gravenimage says
Yes–I have seen this, and it is quite wonderful, CogitoErgoSum, thank you. You are right that it is very moving.
Manny says
Wow. Powerful. Thank you for posting.
ciudadano says
Coran doesn’t even get right the name of Jesus and the proper name of God.
“Jesus, called ‘Isa’ in Arabic”. Wrong.
Yeshua of Nazareth was never called ‘Isa, the name the Qur’an gives to him. Arab-speaking Christians refer to Jesus as Yasou’ (from Yeshua) not ‘Isa. (from http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/durie/islamic_jesus.html)
God’s proper name is not mentioned in Coran once, not even in the story of the burning bush, which is told incompletely three times in the Coran.
Kay says
Very interesting
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes. It’s also the case that the earliest arabic translation of the NT uses a variation of Yeshua, rather than Isa.
https://www.arabicbible.com/arabic-bible/codex.html
“Bismallah” may also be something the arabs borrowed from Christians.
ciudadano says
Thank you for the reference to Mt Sinai Arabic Codex 151. Quite interesting.
abad says
Very informative, thanks for that link.
Islam was built upon a false foundation. No credibility whatsoever as a religion.
beyondculturewars says
Yes, Muslims are right……allah does not have a son who has authority to command all evil and mercy to forgive sins. Only the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has a son with that authority.
Christians don’t need to circle a meteorite three times to earn a place in heaven or throw stones at a stone pillar to banish evil. Christians only need to proclaim His name, anywhere, anytime with His authority.
Merry Christmas, worthy is the Lamb.
Juhani says
Muslims should respect the Gospel (see Quran 5:47) so much that they would believe the divinity of Christ (see https://www.gotquestions.org/divinity-of-Christ.html).
Clearly the Gospel as we know it, was existing at days when the Quran was being written.
gravenimage says
Juhani, are you unaware the Muslims claim that the Bible and Gospels have been “corrupted” by Jews and Christians, and at some mythical point were in complete agreement with the vicious Qur’an?
Robeaver says
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sure. Hahahahahaha. Good one.
CRUSADER says
Sarcasm, one can hope….
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Hugh Fitzgerald, Christianity is a mixture of what Jesus in the Quran taught and pagan doctrines imported into it 325 years after Jesus’ departure from this earth. such doctrines include divinity of Jesus and sonship, which negates the basic doctrine of monotheism taught by Jesus in the Quran. Apart from that Jesus in the Quran is same as Jesus in the Bible. contrary to what you suggested that Islam should be reformed, it is filthy Christianity that shall be reformed by discarding those pagan doctrines negating monotheism taught by Jesus in the Quran. That is only way to harmonise the two religions with common origin. Thank you .
No Fear says
The historical Jesus existed 700 years before the Quran and you are saying that he stole from the Quran? You are prepared to believe the Quran over the contemporaneous accounts in the Gospels? Then you call Christianity pagan. That is a laugh considering the history of Islam and the fac that Mohammed was a pagan before he became a warlord.
CogitoErgoSum says
Something for you to harmonize with, Ibrahim. It’s a Christmas present for you to accept or reject. It’s up to you. I’ll let you look up the translation of the lyrics. I hope you won’t find them too “filthy” for your taste. Peace to you on this Christmas eve. May you be rightly guided in the year to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KejGKjSYD6w
gravenimage says
The appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Hugh Fitzgerald, Christianity is a mixture of what Jesus in the Quran taught and pagan doctrines imported into it 325 years after Jesus’ departure from this earth.
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Actually, Christianity has nothing to so with the vicious “Jesus”–really, “Isa”–of the Qur’an. Christianity predates Islam by well over 600 years.
More:
such doctrines include divinity of Jesus and sonship, which negates the basic doctrine of monotheism taught by Jesus in the Quran. Apart from that Jesus in the Quran is same as Jesus in the Bible.
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Of course, this is claptrap. The “Jesus” of the Qur’an is *nothing* like the figure in the Gospels.
But Muslims claim that Jews and Christians “corrupted” the Torah and Gospels, which they claim were originally just as vicious as the Qur’an. Never mind that there is no historical or archeological evidence for this.
More:
contrary to what you suggested that Islam should be reformed, it is filthy Christianity that shall be reformed by discarding those pagan doctrines negating monotheism taught by Jesus in the Quran. That is only way to harmonise the two religions with common origin. Thank you .
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How does Ibrahim itace muhammed claim to “harmonise” Islam and Christianity work, when it calls for the slaughter of all Christians? Really, that answers the question right there.
The only reason “Jesus” is in the Qur’an at all, quite obviously, is to castigate Christians for being Christian.
abad says
Did you remember to fulfill your daily quota today, Ibrahim??
MFritz says
Don’t feed the troll. It’s just another paid criminal.
R Russell says
Ibrahim,
You have another problem in stating (erroneously) that in 325AD Christian doctrine was corrupted.
You need to read the Early Church Fathers. Polycarp was a friend of John the apostle and he (as well as the other church fathers) wrote long letters containing references to the deity of Jesus. The deity of Jesus has been part of the Christian Faith since Jesus walked this Earth. That is why when He lived in Judea the Jewish leaders wanted to stone Him. He claimed to be God. The reason the Jews wanted Him to be crucified was for blasphemy – He claimed to be God. They just didn’t know He was to die for the sin of the whole world. Although the Jews took Him to Pilate because the Jews no longer had the authority to carry out the death penalty. (again fulfilled prophesy), His death – even on the cross – was for the sin of the world.
Have you met the Bible Jesus yet? He wont force Himself on you, but would like you to be like many thousands of Muslims at this time who are meeting Him in dreams and visions and discovering He loves them. Yes, even although you want nothing to do with him, and revere that other person with the name ‘Isa’ in the Koran, the Bible Jesus still wants you to get to know Him and know the relief of having ALL your sins forgiven and the slate wiped clean.
R Russell says
A problem. A big problem.
In Islam, Mary, (Maryam; Miriam) is Aaron’s sister. Since Moses and Aaron lived approx. 1400 years before the Bible Jesus there seems to be a huge problem. Mary, Miriam, Maryam seems to have lived to a very ripe old age. Strange, the Bible never mentions her longevity.
Thus we know, if we didn’t already know that the Mary, Miriam, Maryam who was the mother of Jesus was not a sister to Moses and Aaron. That on its one should tell people they are different persons with the same name.
Jesus in the Bible was crucified, dead and buried, and rose from the dead. He did this to pay the penalty for our Sin. (imperfections) He ascended into heaven from whence he will come again.
The Muslim Jesus tricked people into believing he was crucified. Another person took his place, thus the Muslim Jesus did not die for our sins.
So let’s not confuse the two. They are different persons
abad says
Bingo.
The Mary and Jesus of the Quran are NOT the same Mary and Jesus in the Gospels.
Mohammad decided to borrow those two names and make up his own stories.
That’s besides the point: Jesus is NOT just a prophet, He is Lord and Savior.
Robeaver says
Were they at another address?? Another Zippy code? Masquerading as a delusion? Or as a deluge? Or after? Were they is diquise?
Kwai Ying says
Islam jesus partial to Mary becos they traced Jesus through mary’s lineage..priesthood to Levi tribes. (Aaron/Miriam). Read Matthew and Luke..different genealogy of Jesus. Heli or Eli is father of Mary..son of Nathan (the prophet?)..son of David..so on
Terry Gain says
Far from being a plus for Islam, the “Muslim Jesus story” tells us everything we need to know about Islam, and it is all negative and incoherent.
1. Islam claims Christ as a prophet of islam even though Christ never said anything about Islam. So, in addition to commanding the enslaving and killing of Christians, Islam steals from Christianity.
2. Islam claims that Christ (with Mohammed’s help) faked his death. Yet, despite the alleged deceit of Jesus and Mohammed, Islam has no problem accepting Christ as a prophet of Islam and Allah as its God. You have to have really low standards of morality to accept deceivers as prophets and/or Gods.
3. As a result of the deceit of Jesus and Allah, they created the world’s largest religion.
4. At the end of the world, Christ will return as a Muslim and he will send Christians (those taken in by his deceit) to hell.
Well at least the Muslim Christ is wicked, just like Muhammad and Allah.
The most rational conclusion to draw from the Muslim Jesus fantasy is that Islam is incoherent.
gravenimage says
+1
abad says
Incoherent and Insane.
There is no room for clear thinking at all in Islam. The Quran strictly forbids clear thinking.
No Fear says
Mohammed’s greatest achievement was to reduce Jesus to being simply a prophet along with Adam, Moses,Noah etc. Then Mohammed claimed to be the FINAL prophet. I call it “the great levelling”. Mohammed equates himself with all the other prophets , including Jesus. What a magic trick!
ciudadano says
That is the Aquiles heel of “prophet” Mohamed. How come the final and greatest of all prophets received a private revelation while the previous prophets received quite public revelations accompanied by supernatural signs from God?
Where are the actual witnesses of Mohamed revelation? some little miracle perhaps? maybe the voice of God from heaven heard by many? maybe some prophesy? some sick people healed by the “prophet”?
There is nothing. There are neither signs from God nor actual witnesses that give credit to Mohammed revelation.
Are we supposed to believe just in Mohamed word? Even in islamic law you need witnesses for the smallest importance affairs, but some how Mohamed revelation is dispensed of any evidence.
So, instead of providing actual witnesses or miraculous signs to support his divine revelation, Mohamed wants us to believe that previous prophets are his witnesses because the book which he himself wrote says so. A book, by the way, full of errors and conspicuous omissions, for instance, God’s proper name is not mentioned once in the Coran, not even in the story of the burning bush, which is told incompletely three times in the Coran.
Michael Copeland says
Mohammed wants everyone to believe him in the cause of Islam.
No-one else was able or qualified to say what Islam is.
One man’s word is all Islam has.
How reliable a man was that?
He was a man who said it is permissible to lie in the cause of Islam.
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/one-mans-word-all-islam-has
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
No Fear, Jesus Felt honored being positioned as one of the highest in rank among the prophets and messengers of God sent to mankind with message of monotheism . It is insulting to equate him with idol as partner of God as in mithraism (present day Christianity).
Arasu says
So, Jesus was “one of the highest in rank among the prophets”, but Muhammad was the greatest? And Muhammad declares by his own mouth that he was the greatest? – his own testimony – is it valid? This murderer, robber and rapist? And who will believe this, except those condemned to hellfire?
CogitoErgoSum says
In many ways Muhammad had such a sly sense of humor This is his joke on us:
Muhammad: It is perfectly okay to lie if it helps to spread Islam.
Muhammad: I am a prophet sent by God to help spread Islam across the world.
Oh, what a funny guy (until you get to know him.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed is saying that Jesus “felt honored” to pave the way for the vicious warlord, pedophile, slaver, rapist, and mass murderer Muhammed.
Does that sound anything like the Jesus of the Gospels? Of course not.
No Fear says
For God (the universe) gave his only begotten son (life)…… Jesus is life itself. Merry Xmas to all.
gravenimage says
Merry Christmas, No Fear!
abad says
Merry Christmas!
gravenimage says
And to you!
Wellington says
Another very fine article by Hugh Fitzgerald, like myself not a religious person, but who puts forward truths about Islam v. Christianity that everyone should know, especially Christians. Oh yeah, especially Christians.
gravenimage says
🙂
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: If It’s Christmas, It Must Be Time For Jesus In the Qur’an
………………………………..
*Ugh*–yes, we hear the claptrap every year now.
But not only is “Jesus” not the Savior in Islam, his main role in Islam is to *kill Christians* in the last days.
Those like Jennifer Williams either do not know this, or don’t want us to know it.
Fine article, Hugh–just the line “brisk and cheerful mendacity” made is much worth reading.
gravenimage says
By the way, Jennifer Williams–despite still using her Infidel name–is a Muslim “revert”:
“How Jennifer Williams, A Tattooed, Blonde Muslim From Texas Became An ISIS Twitter Star”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/03/jennifer-williams-isis-twitter_n_5930122.html
While she has tried to present herself as a “moderate”, most of her followers are “extremists”. Even the usually dhimmi Huffington Post noticed this.
Kay says
Good grief! (I thought she was merely misguided).
Hugh Fitzgerald says
My god, I wish I had known that about her when i wrote the piece. Thank you for letting all of us know. She’s even crazier than I thought.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Hugh.
The ugliest thing is that she knew all about Jihad “extremism” before she ever read the Qur’an and converted. She was not just some naif who read the poetry of Rumi and liked colorful Hijabs and was sure that Islam was a “religion of peace”. *Ugh*.
But despite all the insanity we face, Hugh, Happy Holidays to you and yours.
abad says
Whoa, after seeing her mug shot- she just might look better in a burka and niqab
LOL
CRUSADER says
Santa Claus, as of this writing, was tracked over Tehran….
Hilarious!
https://santatracker.google.com/tracker.html
To all a Merry Christmas and a good night!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
gravenimage says
I love the Santa Tracker!
Of course, the Iranians are probably aiming missiles at his sleigh…
mgoldberg says
A Very Merry Christmas, and peace to you and your families…. to all the christians here.
And to all those christian families, and individuals being tormented, oppressed, threatened by
rules, laws, and practices of tyranny in muslim lands, may you survive in clarity, and peace, no thanks
to the religion of piece.
eduardo odraude says
David Wood’s brilliant logical challenge to Islam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbWAG3kIHqM
Wang Wei Lin says
When two concepts make opposite claims there are only two possibilities. One of the two claims is false or both claims are false, but they cannot both be true. Archeology has proven many aspects of the Christian Bible to be true so lending weight to other claims. Accepting Christ as deity is a matter of faith and the case is well made in John’s Gospel. My conclusion is that Islam is false based on lack of supporting evidence and Mohammad’s heavy borrowing of Jewish and Christian themes.
PRCS says
I remember that.
DV says
Good article. Alas, the “Muslim Jesus” nonsense is also part of an article featured recently by the usually somewhat reliable “Catholic Answers” by Ali Ibn Hassan entitled “Regarding the Muslim Jesus,” and Hassan pushes the idea that such an “understanding” could help to bring about some ecumenical-type understanding between Islam and Catholicism, which is more nonsense.
gravenimage says
As I frequently note, the role of the Muslim “Jesus” is to *kill Christians*.
Hard to believe *this* could bring understanding between Christians and Muslims–except for Christians understanding that Muslims want them dead, of course.
Cunamarra says
Discussing Islam with anyone who’s knowledge of Islam comes from people writing about Islam is like trying to fix a building where every step was done improperly. I still would not consider Spencer or Fitzgerald mainstream. I have come to discover that any description of Islam that makes it sound like something positive, is based on a flat out lie or blatantly hiding what is really taught in the Islamic scripture.
The Twighlight Zone episode “To Serve Man” about the cookbook is an apt analogy.
eduardo odraude says
Mr. Fitzgerald’s article admirably presents key facts.
I would add that Islam explicitly rejects the three central teachings of Christianity. According to Islam, Jesus was not God, Jesus did not die on the cross, and Jesus was not resurrected.
In violently seeking to diminish, subjugate, and destroy Christianity over the course of 1400 years, Islam has proved to be the largest and most enduring anti-Christ force in history.
MFritz says
The ideology of theft, rape and murder does not and will not respect ANY other culture beside it.
Manny says
What a bunch of heretics. What a bunch of crap. These passages are satanic. This is Satan speaking. Not only are they disgusting they make my blood boil, especially this one: “until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29. Don’t ever turn your back on these filthy camel riders. They will never be happy until they dominate non-Muslims. Blank them and the horse Mohammed rode on.
Wang Wei Lin says
Ms. Williams fails to mention the verses that hold Christians in contempt. Of the several Hugh mentioned I would like to add Sura 19 (Maryam) :88-89.
And they say, “The Most Merciful has taken [for Himself] a son.”
You have done an atrocious thing.
My copy of the Quran uses the word monstrous instead of atrocious. I think these verses capture the revulsion that Islam and Muslims have for the deity of Christ.
Jim Christian says
Good article… except in one point…
Mary is NOT the “Mother of God” – and, the Bible never refers to her as such.
Jesus was God long before He created Mary.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Yes, you are right. She is not the Mother of God, but She is the Mother of God in his human form. I should have made that clearer.
These are the words of the Ave Maria, the prayer in which the faithful ask Mary to intercede with her
Son on behalf of us poor sinners (when praying to Mary, Christians are praying to her as an intercessor, not as a divinity herself. She is not adored, she is venerated):
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae, amen.
Ave Maria, gratia plaena, Dominus tecum, Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventri tui Jesus.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
Kwai Ying says
Whay’s the difference, adored and venerated? Same..just playing with words. queen mary is venerated by islam, don’t forget. Our intercessor is Son of God.
gravenimage says
Mary the mother of Jesus is not venerated in Islam. Maryam the mother of the killer of Christians Isa is venerated. A vast difference.
Kwai Ying says
Excellent point!
LeftisruiningCanada says
It’s worth keeping in mind that the idea of calling Mary the Mother of God first came about as a way to support Christ as God in human form.
“Theotokos” was originally intended to say something special about Christ, rather than something special about Mary, as it has later been used to do.
It’s kind of like saying, as Paul did, that “they would not have crucified the Lord of glory” 1Cor2:8 : the joining of a worldly and a heavenly idea in one.
I’m a reformed protestant, and have no problem calling Mary the Mother of God. It doesn’t have to include the later additions of Roman Marian dogma.