Former Islamist Kasim Hafeez has challenged the growing narrative that ‘Muslims love Jesus’.

It is a “complete ruse” to further create the impression that there can be [theological] harmony between Christians and Muslims, but not with Jews, he explained on a news update issued by Christians United with Israel.

Now a Christian who has been to Bible school and who stands with Israel and the Jewish people, he said the narrative was being promoted among Christian communities that Islam ‘honours’ Christ. “It does not. The Jesus of Islam is not the Jesus of the Bible,” he insisted.

Citing a post on X from American political commentator Tucker Carlson claiming that ‘Muslims love Jesus’, Hafeez, who describes himself as once a “very extreme Muslim,” said it has been a favourite tag line among those propagating the Islamic faith that ‘Muslims love Jesus too’.

 

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But he was really surprised to hear this coming from Carlson whose post, he said, also downplays Christian persecution by Muslims. But the Jesus of the Koran is not the Jesus of the gospels.

According to the Koran, he said, those who claim Jesus to be the divine Son of God who was crucified (i.e. Christians) are unbelievers destined for hellfire; the Islamic holy book claims Jesus is a prophet who is subservient to Mohammed and who – far from approving of Christianity – will return to destroy it.

“I am truly sickened by this propaganda essentially saying that we are one and the same,” Hafeez added. “Muslims do not believe in the same Jesus that Christians do. It’s as simple as that.”

Charles Gardner is author of Israel the Chosen, available from Amazon; Peace in Jerusalem, available from olivepresspublisher.com; To the Jew First, A Nation Reborn, and King of the Jews, all available from Christian Publications International.