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.

[MacDorcha]

Give me a bit, I’m off to work. It will take me some time to find my sources again.

Please don’t let me forget!

[Rob112586]

Thanks, I appreciate it. Feel free to PM me as well.

[babble-on]

The “central European” Jews emigrated from the mideast following the destruction of the second temple, but due to genetic laws, and separation from gentiles, they maintained their ethnic continuity to a remarkable degree

[Cronos]

Nope. you are WRONG. The Holey Kore-an says that Abraham, Isaac, Noah, Adam, Jesus and others were ALL Muslimss. And the Holey K can not be wrong. There must’ve been some time-slip continuum where the Prophet went back in time and taught these people to be good M’s. This is how Mo discovered that Jesus was not crucified on the cross, but was carried away and replaced by someone else and when Jesus was carried away, he was laughing. You don’t believe me? Infidel!!! Next you’ll say the earth is round when the HAdith says no, it is flat.

[Cronos]

Jesus was a Semitic — a group that was related to Arabs, but not Arabs. Technically Arabs are only Bedouins who live in what is now Saudi A. Others, like the Syrians are Arameans, Iraqis are Sumerians and Assyrians, Egyptians are Coptic, libyans, algerians etc. are Berbers. Even Yemenis are more related to Axumites.

[MacDorcha]

pingaloodle

[Just mythoughts]

Joseph certainly was NOT Muslim but he is related to their father Ishmael, first child of Abraham.

[Larry Lucido]

Next they’ll be saying that he really did rape Potiphar’s wife, and that she deserved it.

[SJackson]

He would have been though of as a Jew. Arabs didn’t come rampaging out of the Arabian peninsula till Mohammeds time. Of course Muslims lay claim to everyone back to Adam as Muslims, including Jesus.

[RexFamilia]

Whachu talking about? Jesus was Italian.

He hung around with the guys, lived with mommy until middle aged, had a girl friend but did not get married, drank wine...

[bird4four4]

Gen 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

So Jacob, latter renamed Israel, the father of the nation Israel, his favorite child Joseph, is not an Israelite? Where do muslims get their logic from?

[Just mythoughts]

Technically, wasn’t Jesus an arab? I have no idea where people got the fair skinned, blue eyed, long brown hair guy from. But I’m far from a Biblical scholar.

What does the word Adam mean? Ruddy... to show blood in the face.. The lineage from Adam to Christ was the protected blood line. Abraham's first son Ishmael is the father of the Arab peoples. Adam's offspring to Noah and his three sons are recorded in Genesis 5.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Can you expand on that? I actually am very interested in where the western version of Jesus of Nazareth came from.

I imagine it was just that Protestant churches started using artwork depicting a more European-looking Jesus with pale skin, light brown hair and lighter-colored eyes, and that image came with Protestants when they immigrated to the United States in large numbers.

And Jesus did have a British accent - I saw the movie in 8th grade. ;)

[svcw]

You are asking for logic from these fascists.....thats just silly.

[svcw]

Have you ever seen Benjamin Netenyaho(sp)?
Can’t get much whiter and blue eyed than that fellow.
Jews like all peoples come in a variety of shades.

[bert]

From the art of Renaissance artists working on commissions of Roman Catholic patrons

[Just mythoughts]

Joseph of Arimathea was Christ’ uncle. And his legend is he was a rich man and had tin mines in what is modern day Britain. Protestant churches might have had reason to protest.

[squarebarb]

I would guess that as missionaries brought Christianity to the northern tribes (Germans Slavs et al) they presented a Jesus that looked like them.

[jimmyo57]

“Jews like all peoples come in a variety of shades.”

Especially if you’ve been conceived by the Holy Spirit

[Rob112586]

Yeah, that makes alot of sense to me. Not that it really matters what he looked like, or whether certain parts of the mythology were inspired by earlier dieties, or even the role of Mary Magdalan. All that should really matter is the teachings and message of Jesus, which unfortunatly seem to be missing today. But that’s just my viewpoint as someone who doesn’t get involved with organized religion.