Re: Muslims offended by atheists and Hindus calling Jesus the Devil

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Posted by Jochen Katz on December 18, 1997 at 01:11:54:

In Reply to: Re: Muslims offended by atheists and Hindus calling Jesus the Devil posted by Mohamed Ghounem on December 17, 1997 at 15:11:51:

Dear Mohamed,

peace be to you. You wrote:

: I take offence to the atheists and Hindus who have skillfully
: researched the Bible and made a direct connection to Jesus
: and the Devil to be one in the same. These sites can be
: found by

: Clicking Here for the atheist's new discovories

: or here for the

: Hindus who also declare Jesus is Satan

: A message to the atheists and Hindus from Muslims is: Jesus is not the Devil.
: Jesus is a very honored messenger sent from God, a word and spirit proceeding
: from God. A miracle so that the disbelievers can reflect. If there is a
: confusion between the Devil and Jesus then perhaps you should change your
: source of reference.

I am glad that you find these articles offensive and insulting as well, for indeed
they are. But I wonder where you dicovered these links originally. Could it be
that you became aware of them on the Muslim site "Answering Christianity"
which links these exact two sites (and no others on this issue) prominently
as their 2nd and 3rd link under "Hot Topics"? Sure, it is offensive that
atheists or Hindus would write such a thing, but isn't it also offensive
and insulting that a Muslim would spread it to many of his Muslim and
Christian readers? If you found these links on the Muslim site and it seems
likely because of the combination of these two and no others (and there
are others) why do you only denounce the atheists and Hindus, but are not
just as offended by those Muslims who use this attack on and defamation of
the honorable name of Jesus?

You then continued to give this recommendation of a Muslim site:

: Find the clear Truth about Jesus in the "Koran" Click Here

And again I am surprised at your choice since this same site also has
this same attack on Jesus, claiming that Jesus is Satan in the Bible
in their article Lucifer, the Morning Star.

Isn't that substantially the same argument as the ones you mentioned to be
insulting in your posting? And this time it is written by a Muslim and
placed on the very same Muslim site that you recommended!

If you find these defamations of the name of Jesus offensive, I have a
suggestion for you. Write to the web masters of these two Muslim sites
(and others if you find more), and request that this material be removed,
since it is very un-Islamic behavior, and you are offended that a Muslim
should do such a thing. If I write to them and ask for it, they will only
find themselves confirmed in their attack because they think they have
succeeded if Christians protest. But if you could find some other Muslims
who find this abominable, and if you make an organized effort of protest
against this, maybe they take it serious. Should the Muslim community
protest enough, then that might help. What do you think about this
suggestion? You might even post your request publically to the newsgroups
to find more Muslims who would join you in this protest.

The Qur'an says in Sura 16:125:


This is a good verse. Maybe if you make it the basis of your argument,
a good number of Muslims will listen to you and you can do something to
improve the Islamic presentation of the faith and character of Muslims.

I think you need to be less concerned about atheists and Hindus, but
should be very much concerned about the image these Muslims give to
Islam.

May God bless you as you seek to know Him and serve Him,

Jochen

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