Jesus was a member of a faith not established until 600 years after his death?
Sure, and Moses was a Christian, and Mohammed a Scientologist.
Yeah sure I can see the second one, but probably not the first, or the thing about Jesus being Muzzy.
Does that mean that Mohammed the camel humper and child molester was just another con artist?
Indeed. I remember hearing a Black Muslim co-worker telling her friends that Christianity was only 700 years old. :? Never mind the fact that our calendar was dated around 2,000 years after the coming of Christ.
The claim that Jesus was a Muslim is actually standard, orthodox Islam...something all Muslims believe.
They lump Jesus, all the OT prophets, David, Moses, and of course Abraham (and ESPECIALLY Ishmael) ALL into the “Muslim” camp... In doing this they try to co-opt all the godly men before Mohammed, and deny the legitimacy of Judaism and Christianity, as they these—and the Bible—are supposedly “corruptions” of true Islam.
Of course there is no evidence the Tanak (Old Testament) or the New Testament were corrupted...but, facts and real history have never stopped belief in Islam.
It’s not as odd as it may seem, as we tend to think of Abraham as a Jew—thought that name only came over 1,000 years later through one tribe named after one of Abraham’s 12 great-grandsons, Judah.
For a professor though, buying into an explicitly sectarian religious claim, is totally miserable though. I’d expect this from some Imam somewhere...but a professor? Sad.