Is Israel loved by Islam more than Islam loves the Holy Quran? Due to the literal way that all Muslims are required to understand seven key words in one verse in the Holy Quran, suddenly one terrible injustice occurs. Israel immediately has it's bloody record wiped completely clean regarding the most unjust, cold-blooded murder committed in the history of man. Therefore Islam Appears to love Israel more than the Holy Quran because the Quran dows not truly teach that Israel did not murder ALLAH's innocent Messiah. Those seven words translated as, "They killed him not nor crucified him", were written for their figurative shock value and were never intended to be understood literally. The words in this verse of An-Nisa 4:157 are intended to be understood combined with the one powerful, victorious verse after this verse, in order to mock and humiliate the murderers and to expose them as total failures at murder. But this verse in relation to the triumphant verse of: "ALLAH raised him up unto Himself "-suddenly exposes his murderers as total failures because they failed to accomplish their evil purpose of ending his life forever. So in a figurative, shocking sense, they had neither killed him nor crucified him as the Quran explicitly states. As an outside observer, it is beyond my wildest imagination that up until now the following has not yet occurred. That at least one Shiite or one Sunni leader, after reading An Nisa 4:157 and 158, would suddenly start screaming at the top of his capacity to scream: "Oh Muslim brothers and sisters, what have we done?" "We have taken it upon our great religion to unjustly and irresponsibly wipe the blood off the Israeli murderers' hands. They did murder him but our entire religion is saying they did not." "But it is not our Holy Quran that is saying, 'They did not murder him'. Rather, it is our superficial wrong understating of these two profound verses that is saying they did not murder him." "Oh Allah, please forgive us for allowing our eyes to be nailed shut so that they have not recognized the horrible murder of your Messiah which occurred. Please help us to understand that by our covering up this murder of your obedient servant rather than condemning it and exposing it, we have sent a terribly wrong message to the descendents of the original perpetrators of this injustice. We are telling Israel that they are such a special people that it is not a big deal for the world community as well as for Islam to look over any other crimes they commit against Palestinians, just as we have found a way to overlook their ancestors unjust execution of your totally innocent servant." To totally O.K. the free pass that all of Islam has now given Judaism, and to totally separate their ugly murder of God's Messiah from major injustices that they now arrogantly assume they have the right to commit today against Palestinians, is psychologically naive. Therefore, the time has arrived for either Sunni or Shiite Muslim leaders or both, to extricate themselves from the simplistic way that they have up until now understood this pivotal verse in the Quran which also has a crucial role in current history. For to continue to excuse Israel for murdering the Messiah is vitaly connected to excusing Israel for now murdering and abusing Palestinians. In Light of these relevant realities, Shiite and Sunni Muslim leaders must no longer arbitrarily and stubbornly claim that no other explanation for these seven words exists except for the current explanation that is now being blindly, naively and unquestioningly accepted by all Muslims. For the tragic reality is that Allah's only Messiah indeed was murdered by the Jews, even though a superficial reading of the verse makes it appear that he was neither killed nor was he illegally executed. Definitely, in their context of exposing the many crimes of the Jews and of Allah raising his Messiah up alive, the words of the verse 4:157 were intended to shock, mock and humiliate the Jewish leaders who had intended to get rid of him forever. And they would have been successful if Allah had not used His own Might and Wisdom to intervene by suddenly raising him up alive. So the strong words were designed to shockingly humiliate the Jews for even being total failures at murder. Now to answer a modified version of the question that is the title of this essay: "Does Israel receive more favor from Muslims than the respect they show the Holy Quran? The shocking answer to this question in reference to whether the Quran teaches that the Jews murdered the Messiah, is yes! In this situation MUSLIM leaders clearly favor Israel over their own Holy Quran. What is my evidence for making this shocking claim? Here is the overwhelming evidence. In order for Muslim leaders to conclude conclusively that the verse is actually intended to teach that the Jews did not murder the Messiah, these leaders must commit no less than five unholy crimes against the Holy Quran. So I submit that in order for Muslim leaders to be willing to blaspheme the Quran to that extreme extent in order to clear Israel of murder, these leaders definitely appear to value Israeli leaders above their value of the Quran in order to clear ancient Israeli leaders of the murder of Allah's MESSIAH. I will now list five unholy crimes committed by leaders of Islam against the Holy Quran in order to clear Israel of murder. 1 They transform the Messiah, who the Quran proclaims as "eminent in this world and the next,” into a virtual coward who flees from suffering. But before his supposed transformation into a coward, he was courageously confronting the entire Israeli religious structure even though they consistently revealed that they were planning his murder. His obvious previous courage does not portray a frightened Messiah who would secretly accept God's help to sneak away from his own execution. 2 They shamefully degrade the Holy Allah portrayed in the Quran by making him complicit in a CIA type fabrication where He Himself supplies an imposter to substitute for Isa while He secretly sneaks the true Messiah away never to be heard from for almost 2000 years. 3 These leaders cancel the Allah arranged glorious resurrection. They deliberately ignore the other verses in the Quran which faithfully speak of the Messiah's death as well as his resurrection. Significantly, those other verses would not be in the Quran if he had not been at least temporarily killed and then raised from death. 4 The Quran proclaims repeatedly that its teachings confirm the teaching of earlier Scriptures and these earlier Scriptures teach again and again in many different pages that the Messiah was both killed and that Allah raised him up from death. So Islam's leaders, by demanding that all Muslims believe that he was not killed and that Allah did not raise him up from death, are virtually accusing the Quran of lying when it states again and again that it confirms the teaching of the earlier Scriptures, which confirm both the Messiah's death and his glorious resurrection. 5 These leaders bluntly ignore the clear instructions given by Allah to the Prophet Muhammad as proclaimed in Jonah 10:94. In this important verse the Prophet is instructed to go to the people of the earlier Scriptures in order to settle any doubts about the meaning of revelations to him. So this advice to the Prophet is ignored concerning whether the Messiah died and later was raised from death. Thus Islam refuses to honor the earlier Scriptures which constantly rejoiced over the Messiah's victory over death and over the defeat of the evil plans of those who intended to end his life forever. Summary In the light of how the vast majority of Muslims have great respect for the Quran and do not want to base their belief regarding the Messiah's death and resurrection on their own unholy crimes against the Quran, I fully expect the following radical change to soon be brought about by Allah in Islam. The Merciful will help multitudes of Muslims to discontinue the crimes they are now committing against the Holy Quran by mistakenly rejecting ALLAH's Messiah's great victory over both death and victory over the defeated plans of calloused Israeli religious leaders to end his life forever. back to "Late 2007 - 2009" page __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ __________________________ _____________