Biblical hero Joseph 'was really a Muslim'-Palestinians make astonishing claim

WorldNetDaily ^ | February 14, 2008 | Aaron Klein

[SJackson]

Biblical hero Joseph 'was really a Muslim' Palestinians make astonishing claim, deny they'll help restore burned tomb

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Building at Joseph's Tomb site after Palestinian Authority took control in 2000 .

In the wake of an attempt by Palestinians to burn down Joseph's Tomb – Judaism's third holiest site – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction issued a statement denying it will help restore the shrine, referring to both the shrine and the biblical patriarch as "Muslim."

"Pay no attention to the rumors that we will work with Israel to restore the burial site of the holy Muslim Joseph," said the statement, issued from Nablus, the biblical city of Shechem. "We are going to guard this holy Muslim site."

Joseph's Tomb is the believed burial place of the son of Jacob who was sold by his brothers into slavery and later became viceroy of Egypt.

[G8 Diplomat]

Muhammad lived around 700 AD

He was born in 570.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

What passes for Islamic scholarship is nothing more than sheer idiocy by the standards of anyone with an IQ of over 89.

Their propaganda is almost as bad as their ‘scholarship.’

[Buggman]

Sorry, I’m not seeing where your point is going.

[G8 Diplomat]

Arabs are Semites. Hebrew, Arabic, Assyrian, and Aramaic (the language spoken by Jesus and from which Arabic is derived) are Semitic languages.

[sheik yerbouty]

It’s time they behave or become exeunt off the world’s stage..

[Mrs. Don-o]

Jewish on His mother's side

When I was a little girl, my father (who BTW was an agnostic) brough home a book from the public library which had depictions of Christ in Art from all centuries and cultures. I was fascinated with Jesus' face and form as interpreted by Navajo, Japanese, Bantu, Tupi-Guarani, Bavarian, Filipino portrait painters, muralists, sculptors.

I loved Jesus protrayed as the Jew he was and is, like here

But I was not, and am not, scandalized by every other culture's images, for instance this one from China or Atlanta, or Haiti or Mumbai, because people who love im always portray him as "the best," and naturally he'll look like the most handsome and noble, most sweet or strong or impressive man they know.

[FreeAndRight]

Thank you for explaining this so well. Right on the spot....

[geopyg]

I imagine that earlier posts are correct in that Jews had various features, the European artists made Jesus look like them, etc. One interesting one I heard is that the early artists used the likeness of the Shroud of Turin for their artwork. Much of the artwork does resemble the Shroud. But in the image in the Shroud is a “negative” image, giving the dark skin a light color. Could be?? BTW - the Egyptians in their artwork gave Jews red hair. They think they found Joseph's old tomb in Egypt. In an old Jewish town, the paintings on the wall show a red-haired guy with a colorful coat (Jews also like colorful robes) and the guy was wearing the Pharoah's signet ring for sealing documents.

[Republic of Texas]

Maybe Obama is right. Maybe we can change history.

[Mrs. Don-o]

See mine at #115.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"What does the word Adam mean? Ruddy... to show blood in the face..

Well, kind of. In Hebrew "dam" means blood and "adamah" means earth, and they're sort of related because in parts of the Middle East (just like here in Tennessee) there's a lot of brownish-red clay. Adam could have been pink as a blushing Welshman or as earth-red as the Cherokee Sequoyah.

We don't know what Adam looked like.

Neither do we know what Jesus looked like. But this image may be close.

[Grizzled Bear]

I’m waiting for those sociopaths to claim George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and John Wayne as being Muslims. Give them time...

[Mrs. Don-o]

They don't think Islam was introduced by Mohammad. They think Islam existed since the creation of Adam and Eve, and that Mohammad merely restored its purity. See mine at #115.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, "Father" can be used in different senses.

It can refer to the First Person of the Trinity, in relation to the Second Person who is His "only-begotten" Son. This is a relationship which is singular and unique.

It can refer to God in His relationship to "all who believe," and thus take in many people as His children, but not all, as you said, dmanLA.

It can refer likewise to God in His relationship to all who are made in His image and likeness, which is a way of expressing paternity:

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.."(Genesis 1:25)
"When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image..."(Genesis 5:3)

That's to say, the whole human race, as here:

Ephesians 3:14-15
"For this reason I kneel before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name."

This conveys the same idea as Acts 17:25-26:

"...He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."

Thdse are three different meanings of the word "Father": not with exactly the same meaning, not identical, but overlapping.

[Reily]

According to the Koran Alexander the Great was a Muslim !
Which would have been news to him since he thought he was the son of Zeus (or so his mother told him!)

[domenad]

IN that case, Obama can dictate that Jews and Muslims have always been best buds and solve the crisis in the middle east.

I wonder how well his “diplomacy surge” will do when there is a massive car bomb.

[madison10]

So they are saying that Joseph, Son of Israel, was a Muslim? hahahahahahaha

Lost it, have they?

[madison10]

Jesus, in that photo, is neither blond-haired, blue-eyed, or fair skinned. As for the long-haired part. Maybe someone thought He was a Nazarite.

[hosepipe]

Time for the isrealis to print a CARTOON..,br> Cartoons trump language or dialect.. or even culture..

A picture of Homer Simpson(DOH) with a turban might work..
OR a picture of a palestinian warming himself by a fire of BOOKS burning..

[Rob112586]

I’m very interested in Sumerian mythology, especially considering a decent amount of Babylonian and Judaic/Christian mythology descends from it. And in the surviving Sumerian texts and stone seals, the God(s) created “Atom/Adom” from clay as the first perfect human in the image of the God(s). I wonder if this was the basis for the Torrah’s creation story.

Also, the Epic of Gilgamesh shares many parralels with the Noah’s Ark story.