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The second thing, of course, something that Tucker Carlson said. Well, Tucker Carlson says lots of things, but on April 14th, he wrote the following.
Quote, "The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes he performed miracles, and states that he will return to earth to defeat the Antichrist."
Okay, now I'm addressing this because like I said, lots of you contacted me about it and you contacted me about it because you know I've addressed this many times before. This is actually one of my pet peeves as it were, this Abrahamic business and, um, trying to conflate Islam with Christianity, for example, and saying they share commonality. So yes, I would argue that Muslims love Jesus, but I'm going to clarify because it doesn't mean what you think it means.
This toa keeps popping up, doesn't it? Yes. According to Islamic teaching, Muslims believe, and in keeping with the Quran, that Jesus was born of a virgin and that he was sinless, he was perfect, and that he performed miracles, and that he's coming in the end times. So, yes, of course, that sounds very impressive if you're a Christian to find another religion, which is often seen as a, a competitor, a hostile antagonist, or however you want to see it, whether you want to see it realistically or not. And then you find that, wow, as a Christian, Christ is so central, and yet these people actually believe he was born of a virgin, committed, performed miracles, was sinless, etc., etc. So that must not be so bad. Aha.
But the problem is how these things are actually articulated and understood, and also the omission, what's not said and what is rejected. Okay. So first of all, while they do accept, let's say, what I would call the nativity story, right, the Christmas story, which is born of a virgin, sinless, etc., they don't believe actually the core doctrines of Christianity, the much more important and central doctrines of Christianity. Not only do they not believe them, they adamantly reject them. In fact, Muhammad was sent specifically to address these claims about Jesus Christ that Christians hold to. Namely, that he was the son of God, that he was actually crucified and died, that he was buried, and that he was resurrected.
Okay, that is, of course, as we recently saw the Easter message, that is the gospel, the good news. It's not so much that Jesus, that, you know, God was incarnate. That, of course, is a major part of it. And as we've seen, Muslims do accept that, but they reject the whole point of why he became incarnate. Okay? And, uh, again, to reiterate, they reject the central core teachings of Christianity vocally. The Quran says you are an infidel, a kafir, which is the worst category in Islam for a non-Muslim because it basically means open game on your blood. It's articulated like that in Arabic. So you're a kafir, you can be killed, unless, of course, in the context of you're a person of the book, but you're still a kafir. You can pay tribute, jizya, live as a subjugated demi, according to Quran 9:29. But you are a caffer, an infidel. The Quran says infidels or kufur, caffers plural, are they who say Jesus is the son of Allah, son of God. Okay. And it also condemns the concept of the trinity. All right.
So Islam is inherently against what Christians, such as Tucker Carlson, I assume, hold dearly to be true about Jesus. And this leads to a bigger issue about this whole Abrahamism, as it's called. The idea that Islam is actually a sister or brother religion to Christianity because it shares the same biblical figures going all the way back to Adam and Eve. Right? Uh, so in the Quran, Islamic tradition, Adam and Eve, Moses, Noah, um, everyone you can think about all the way up until Jesus are mentioned, and they're all great prophets, of course, and they all have their great roles, but they are actually being appropriated by Muslims, beginning with Muhammad, in order to validate the message of Islam. Why? Because if you're a seventh-century Arab in Arabia, and the entire Middle East is overwhelmed with Christianity, and everyone, including Jews, know who Moses and Adam and Eve and, and, uh, Noah are. Okay, those are the names associated with faith and religion and God, okay? And you're the seventh-century Arab. Well, you better align yourself with them and make them part of your tradition. Not come and say, "Oh, they're all wrong and I'm right." But the trick is he appropriated their names, but then he changed who they were, what they represented, in a way to validate his new message of Islam.
And so in the case of Jesus, not only was he not crucified, not killed, and therefore not resurrected, and therefore not the son of God, but he's actually very keen on, uh, fulfilling Muhammad's worldview and request. So Jesus, when he comes back in the Islamic tradition to earth, because he does around judgment day, and in that context, he's an eschatological figure as well, when he comes back, the things that Jesus is going to be keen on doing is breaking the cross, all the crosses, killing all the pigs, and then abrogating jizya. As I alluded to, jizya is in Quran 9:29, that's the central verse that calls for unrestricted warfare on the people of the book, which is Christians and Jews, until they either convert or they pay tribute, which is to say they pay jizya, as it's called, and live as second-class citizens, demi, etc., or they fight to the death.
So in coming back in the final days and abrogating jizya, what Jesus is ultimately saying is, you now have to either convert to Islam or fight to the death. Okay. So he's breaking the cross because he doesn't, because he's, he's outraged that Christians for a couple of millennia, or whenever, how many years it will be when he comes back in the Islamic rendering, he's upset. So he's breaking the cross as an indication that he was never crucified. You silly Christians. And he's going to kill all the pigs because, you know, Christians are eating pigs, and it's not really, um, Muslims don't. It's not very kosher in that sense. And he's finally going to abrogate jizya, which means now you either become Muslim or die. Well, you know what that's like, actually?
So, so the Jesus that the Muslims love, as Tucker Carlson said, and they do, he's really, well, first of all, his, he's not Jesus. His name is Isa. And what he is is really a doppelganger. You know, he's the evil twin of the real Jesus. He's much more like an ISIS figure, isn't he? ISIS is very fond of quoting the phrase, which traces back to early Islamic history, "break the cross." They, they say it all the time, and they engage in it. Not just ISIS, radical Muslims, as it were. Um, they break the cross because it's so provocative. It's anathema to Islam, the idea of the crucifix. There's a hadith where Muhammad supposedly, if he entered anywhere and even saw some makeshift a symbol that looked like a cross, would just go crazy and break it. Hence why the phrase "break the cross." And that's why Muslims, including ISIS and others, do it. Okay.
So there it is about the Jesus and what Tucker Carlson said. All right. Yeah. Muslims love Isa, who's more of an ISIS figure, who's going to come break all the crosses because Christianity is wrong, and he's going to make sure that Christians can no longer even pay to be, uh, second-class demies. They have to either convert or die. All right. So there's that.
Because this is really an interesting topic. If you really want to understand the concept, and I've said this before, I've written a lot about this, this idea of appropriation and religions and, and so forth, being close to each other, sister religions. The irony is when you find two religions that have some sort of commonality and ostensibly seem to be close, or in this case, use the same figures and the same names, the more prone they are actually to hate each other as opposed to building bridges and being friends. Now, why is that? Use your reason and think about it.
If there are two religions that have absolutely nothing to do with each other, no historical intersection, okay, let's say, I don't know, Hinduism and Christianity. Very different religions, obviously. One's polytheistic, one's monotheistic, despite what Muslims say. And, um, you know, historically, they don't intersect. I don't believe anything in the Hindu scriptures or tradition even mentions or acknowledges or knows about Jesus. And of course, in, in the Christian tradition, in the Bible, there's nothing really about Hindus. Okay. So on the one hand, they have nothing to do with each other. Does that by nature mean now, you know, going back to the idea that they're going to be especially hostile? Well, I suppose every religion is fundamentally generically hostile to the other because each one is supposedly claiming a truth. And if you're going to claim a different truth, then yeah, there's obviously an obstacle. But it's very generic. And this would exist between every religion. So Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, all these religions would have the same idea, which is, um, essentially, we have a, we have a truth, you obviously don't accept it. You contradict it to one degree or the other, and therefore we're not aligned. Okay, that I think is generic.
But now the idea is that if there is, for example, the Islam, the Islam case, you have a religion which, okay, obviously it rejects what I talked about about Christ and the central core teachings, but it accepts, uh, a lot of the other, uh, things. So therefore, they should be kind of close. No. Okay. And I'm going to give you an analogy to understand what this, how this goes. I've given it before, which is basically imagine you, you have a grandfather, and he's dead now, and you knew him, and you were very fond of him, and you know, you have great recollections of him spending time with him, you looked up to him, etc., etc. And then all of a sudden, some stranger you never met comes up to you and says, "Hey, that was my grandfather too." Okay. Now, right there, on the surface, that seems like a good thing. Wow, a new commonality is going to be built. This person and me, we have the same grandfather. We're going to sit around and, uh, reminisce about how great he was. I'm going to learn from him, different things, he's going to learn from me. But then this fellow tells you that everything you know about your grandfather is completely wrong. All the stuff you think he said and did, not true. It's actually what I'm going to tell you. And then he starts to tell you things about your grandfather that you never expected, you never heard, you never associated with him. Disturbing things, even.
All right. So in the context of what we're talking about, Jesus. So, you know, not at the sake of sounding sacrilegious or blasphemous, imagine Jesus is your grandfather, and you love him, okay? And you believe in, you believe he taught what he taught in the Christian teaching. And then this fellow comes and says, "Ah, he's my grandfather too, but he taught that he's going to break the cross, and he's going to kill the pigs, and he's going to, and he never, you know, he doesn't, he never told you that he was, or it was never said that he was crucified and resurrected." Now, how on earth is that going to build a bridge between you and this person? Think about it.
So, the whole point is the argument is very superficial. It just looks at the fact that, oh, we share the same names and the same people, and therefore, oh, we're natural allies. But the fact is, it's because you share the same names, but at the same time, you see these names and personages in a completely different way. They mean something different. Well, that actually is now an obstacle. That's not a, a cause of friendship. That's a greater obstacle than if it was the person who doesn't say, "I know your grandfather," which is to say, than if it was a Hindu or a Buddhist or someone of another religion that doesn't have anything to do with Jesus in this case. Do you see what I'm saying?
So the idea that we often hear that, oh, these are cousin religions, and, oh, wow, we have a natural bridge to build, etc., etc. It's, it's the exact opposite. The closer religions are, the more prone they are to actually hate and war with each other. Look at Catholicism and Protestantism. To the outside world, they're both Christians. And by and large, they are both Christians, right? They both believe in the core tenets about Jesus Christ. They both agree that he was, you know, like Muslims, that he was born of a virgin, etc., etc., performed miracles, that he was the son of God, that he was crucified, that he was resurrected, and is coming to judge. Okay? So, you would think, wow, Protestants and Catholics should be the absolute best of friends. Historically, well, they killed each other left and right. They weren't killing Hindus, all right? But they were killing each other because, again, the closer you get, the more prone for violence and or actual hostility to exist between the two groups.
So I think that's a final important point to make in regards to Mr. Carlson's claims. And here it is. Let me read it again. So the people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord. That's true. Believes he performed miracles. True. And states that he will return to earth to defeat the Antichrist. True. Okay. But as we just saw, the whole problem is that what Jesus is to Muslims is not what Christians say he is to Muslims. Muslims love Isa. They don't love Jesus. And Isa is, um, a counterfeit Jesus Christ who teaches the opposite things. That's the truth, Mr. Carlson. Bring back the flame. Bring back the fire and the righteous name.