[ May 13, 2024 ]
The preposterous claim is here:
Jesus was not only a Palestinian, but was the first Islamic martyr, a senior Palestinian leader said this week.
Writing on his Facebook account on December 24, Tawfiq Tirawi, a senior Palestinian leader and Fatah Central Committee member posted: “This is blessed Christmas, The birthday of our lord Jesus the Messiah, the first Palestinian and the first Shahid [Islamic Martyr],” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has reported.
Story continues below advertisementPMW has noted that Tirawi’s reference to “our lord Jesus” is not an acceptance of Christianity; rather, Islamic tradition teaches that Jesus was a Muslim who preached Islam.
PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein, the top religious figure within the PA, has made this point before, saying: “We’re talking about an ongoing chain [of prophets of the Islam], from Adam to Muhammad. It’s an ongoing chain, representing the call for monotheism, and the mission of Islam…”
Jesus was “the first Islamic martyr,” declares Palestinian propagandist Tawfiq Tirawi. That is a neat trick, chronologically, for Islam itself did not appear in the world until the early 7th century, that is, 600 years after the death of Jesus. As for the “Arab Palestinians,” they arrived in Palestine only in the mid-7th century, more than 600 years after Jesus.
For Muslims, Jesus is one of the more than ten thousand prophets who came before the Last of the Prophets, Muhammad, appeared. For Muslims Jesus is to be revered, but on no account should he be thought of as the Son of God, as the foolish Christians believe, for that amounts to shirk, polytheism, which in Islam is strictly prohibited.
“The prophets were all of the same religion [Islam]… Jesus was born in this land. He lived in this land. It is known that he was born in Bethlehem… He also lived in Nazareth, moved to Jerusalem. So he was a Palestinian par excellence… We respect Jesus, we believe in him [as a Muslim prophet], just as we believe in the prophet Muhammad.”
Jesus is everywhere described in the New Testament as a Jew. Tens of thousands of commentaries on the Bible by Christian theologians and by historians over the past 2000 yeas have described Jesus as a “Jew.” No one, until the last few decades of Palestinian propaganda, has anyone claimed that Jesus was a Muslim, who preached Islamic doctrine.
And where was Jesus the Jew from? Not Arabia. He was from the Jewish-nation of “Judea,” its name changed by the Romans who then ruled, from “Judea” to “Palestine” in order, quite deliberately, to minimize or efface the Jewish connection to the land. What’s more, for the same reason, the Romans renamed “Jerusalem” as “Aelia Capitolina.”
Claims that Jesus was a Palestinian have been made multiple times this week [at the end of December]. On December 26, Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muwaffaq Matar wrote in the Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida “If someone could win the Nobel Peace Prize every year forever, it is Palestinian Jesus son of Mary who was born in Bethlehem…”
He added: “Palestinian Jesus son of Mary was a victim…”
Muwaffaq Matar’s claim that Jesus was a “Palestinian” – that is, a Muslim Arab – is nothing new; for years it has continue to be made by various Palestinian propagandists, such as the unpleasant Hanan Ashrawi and the rapacious Mahmoud Abbas. The claim is designed to Islamize and Arabize Jesus, the most famous Jew of all, and hence, through this factitious manufactured identity as a “Palestinian,” to shore up the Muslim Arab claim to “Palestine.”
Jesus lived more than 600 years before there was a single Muslim. He lived at a time when Palestine was populated entirely by Jews; there was not a single Arab in Palestine until the mid-7th century. So how is it that he could now be presented as a “Muslim” and an “Arab”? History is not the strong suit of Palestinian propagandists. For them, history is not so much “bunk,” as Henry Ford, that know-nothing and antisemite, famously called it, but is akin to silly putty, to be molded and shaped, this way and that, as one sees fit. And the Palestinians want us to believe that Jesus was not a Jew, but a “Palestinian” (both Arab and Muslim), and call him that so often that some of them come to believe their own fabrications, and hope you will, too.
Muwaffaq Matar insists that Jesus was a “Palestinian” – not merely in the obvious geographic sense, but in the religious and ethnic sense. But he goes further. He calls Jesus a “martyr” for Islam, a “shahid” like the Palestinian suicide bombers who sacrifice for their faith. When Jesus was crucified, for Muwaffaq Matar and many other Palestinians like him, Jesus was put to death not by the Romans, but by the malevolent Jews. Thus his martyrdom, at the hands of those whom the Qur’an describes as the “strongest in enmity” to the Muslims.
Ignore the New Testament. Pay no attention to the tens of thousands of accounts of Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew living in Judea. Ignore the theologians and the historians of Christianity who write about “Jesus the Jew.” Believe, in the face of all the evidence, that it was the Jews alone who condemned Jesus to death; the Romans, and especially Pontius Pilate, had nothing to do with it.
To sum up: For 2000 years, everyone in the Western world has known that Jesus was a Jew. He was a Jew living in the Jewish homeland, then under Roman rule. The Romans had renamed “Judea” as “Palestine” and “Jerusalem” as “Aelia Capitolina,” to efface the Jewish connection to their ancient land and to their ancient capitol, but they could not efface history. It is today’s Palestinians who are trying to efface that Jewish history, and deliberately misconstrue the religious and ethnic identity of Jesus. Some people find the claim so absurd as not to be worth rebutting. They are wrong. There are plenty of people in the West who are susceptible to even the most absurd claims, when it comes to Muslims and especially, the Palestinians whom the political and media elites in the West clearly favor.
So let the truth be endlessly repeated, no matter how tiresome the task becomes, every time some Palestinian propagandist claims Jesus as a “Palestinian” and even as a “shahid,” firmly state the truth: the historical Jesus was a Jew, not a Muslim. He did not preach – he could not even have known – Islamic doctrine to his followers. He existed 600 years before Islam even came into existence, and 600 years before there was a single Arab in Palestine. Jesus has been described everywhere in the New Testament, and in tens of thousands of theological works and histories, as a Jew. He was not a “shahid”; he did not die as a martyr for a non-existent Islam, but he was, rather, a perceived threat to Roman rule and political stability. As the historian Joseph Klausner famously described him, Jesus was, whatever his other messages, a Jewish nationalist, and was perceived as such by Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who had him put to death.
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29 Comments
4 years ago
According to pislam Jesus did not die on the cross but an impostor was sent to die in his place. By claiming him as a shahid they are therefore contradicting the koran. I believe there is a rather severe punishment for that.
4 years ago
Reply to
DVult
Satan has the Muslims’ back. He will save them for eternity to be enslaved for himself.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Satan is like the communists. He will promise everything and deliver nothing but a series of disasters. Like Bernie Sanders would do for example.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Revelation 20:10
He’s not in charge, God is and hell won’t be his kingdom. He’ll burn there in torment just like any unrepentant sinner. Satan is God’s devil (read the book of Job)…
4 years ago
THIS IS HOW ISLAM TOLERATES ANY OTHER FAITH !!
WAKE UP WORLD !!
ISLAM IS A CANCER ON OUR PLANET !!
4 years ago
IT PROVES ONCE AGAIN, THAT MUSLIMS ARE LIARS AND DECEIVERS AND YOU CANNOT TRUST THEM WITH **ANYTHING**!
Jesus is HEBREW, born in Bethlehem from the offspring/descendant (Mary) of KING DAVID.
The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. (Psalms 132:11)
4 years ago
and moeHAMhead licked the sand clean at the goat whorehouse
4 years ago
I remember some Christian mag claiming that Samson was a Palestinian freedom fighter! I pointed out that he was a Hebrew fighting the Palestinians (Philistines, occupants of Gaza), they didn’t like it.
4 years ago
It’s just another form of Dawah (ala Taqiya).
Like saying that Muhammad was a feminist. then the feminists accept it and say “wow!, I didn’t know that. that’s incredible”.
4 years ago
As for the “Arab Palestinians,” they arrived in Palestine only in the mid-7th century, more than 600 years after Jesus.
You are supposed to believe that MOhammad was the final prophet to correct the teachings of Christ. According to Mohammad, Jews and Christians had it all wrong. so Mohammad was tasked with straightening it out and still Jews and Christians rejected him.
With less violence and forced conversions, Islam reminds me of Joseph Smith, the inventor of Mormonism. He too was supposed to straighten out Christians and Jews if possible and have them convert to Mormonism. You’d also be permitted to have mulitple wives, incest, women are baby machines that know their place and look forward to origies for eternity. Just ask Mitt about that. Oh and each acts so PIOUS.
4 years ago
DUMB….de…..DUMB….DUMB…….
Little black flies have larger brains than muslims.
4 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
Not all Muslims are bad. Most are simply misguided. Who can provide the guidance they need? Who will?
4 years ago
Ha!!
It’s not what the green book says
Quran actually says that Jesus is ”a Word from God”.
Surah 3:45
4 years ago
Jesus absolutely did preach of Islam. They are not lying. He said, “Beware of the wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Honestly, they’re half right! Lolololol
4 years ago
Reply to
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Truer words were never spoken by Christ the Savior of Christians!
4 years ago
I would like to hear more Islamic homage regarding Abraham. Perhaps that may be too much to ask for. Yet, I will. Father Abraham had many sons…
4 years ago
Reply to
Philip
Ishmael, illigitimate son of Abraham, was evidently the father of the arabs . . . so Mooohamed in the 6th century attempted to graft his Cult of insanity into the Jewish history 1000 years later . . . because he too was an arab.
It was foretold that lshmael would be:
“a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell over against all his brethren” (Genesis 16:12).
The present-day so-called ‘Palestinians’ are an Arab people sharing an overwhelmingly Muslim Arab culture, ethnicity and language identical to their fellow Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, with few if any distinctions. They are primarily the descendants of those itinerant Arabs who illegally flooded British Mandatory Palestine from Arab territories as far away as Sudan, Egypt, Syria and what was Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). They were attracted during the late 19th and early 20th century by new employment opportunities created and provided by the Jewish pioneers whose heroic efforts were turning the desert green again and restoring centuries of neglect which the ancestral Jewish homeland had endured under a succession of alien occupations.
4 years ago
Send this article to the Pope,
Lets see if he kiss their feet again
4 years ago
Muslims don’t believe in Bible. They might have some respect toward Old Testament, and perhaps some respect for first four books in New Testament, but they don’t read any of them.
Otherwise they would know about life and character of Jesus, true prophet, who prophesied on mountain this:
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Mat 7:15 But beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside they are plundering wolves.
Mat 7:16 From their fruits you shall know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Mat 7:17 So every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruits.
Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits.
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Now compare life and character of Jesus to character and life of Mohamed.
It isn’t hard distinguish Mohamed was one of those wolfs.
Plundering wolf, killer, thief and robber.
Alleged prophet, but he had no prophesy, only evil deeds. exact opposite to Christ.
4 years ago
I shared this on Facebook and they banned me from posting for 24 hours. Please everyone, share this and overwhelm the communists.
4 years ago
Reply to
Scott Smith
When i complained about it they then closed my account. F Facebook.
4 years ago
Not only blasphemous but absolutely ridiculous!
4 years ago
Islam Is a political cult masquerading as a religion. It is a means of an elite to gain control and absolute domination over a subject population who are purposely kept ignorant and inbred stupidity.
4 years ago
The cult is godawful bunch of pricks! Take a baseball bat cracking some skulls open for the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Lebanon Christian females and children!
4 years ago
These jihadis think the rest of us are as dumb as they are. Our problem is they are probably right
4 years ago
Another inbred low intellect arab I suspect . . . .
Neither Palestine the country or Izzzzlam existed in the time of Jesus . . . Mooohamed didn’t start his vicious cult till the 6th Century . . . hundreds of years after Jesus rose from the dead.
So far as I know Mooohamed is as dead as that Iranian terrorist General . . . ole whats his name . . . lol
4 years ago
Remember their religion, rather a cultism, is based on lies and rewards liars for lying to advance the cult!!! They can even violate the rules of the cult to advance the cult! Yes, that is exactly what the Quran says, That is also the unspoken motto of the left in this country. We just saw a prolonged demonstration of it in the so-called Trump impeachment!
