Many local New Yorkers and visiting tourists were rightly upset to see a massive billboard in Times Square proclaiming that, “Jesus is Palestinian. Merry Christmas.” Making matters even worse was another billboard containing a citation from the Quran (Surah Al-Imran 3:45), with Allah announcing the good news of the birth of Jesus the Messiah. 

The ads, which were sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), was said to be acts of “cultural resilience.”

In reality, they promoted falsehood and stirred conflict at a time that is still sacred to hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide.

As for allegedly demonstrating unity in the belief systems of Christianity and Islam, the billboards did the opposite, since the Jesus of the Quran is not the Jesus of the Bible. 

To the contrary, the Jesus of Islam is a very different Jesus. He is not the Son of God, he did not die for our sins, he did not rise from the dead, and he is absolutely not to be worshiped as God. As for his teaching and his character and his work, almost none of it is recounted in the Quran.

To say, “Muslims believe in Jesus,” would be similar to someone saying, “I believe in Muhammad. But I don’t believe he was a prophet and I don’t believe the Quran is God’s Word.” 

Comparatively speaking, the Jesus of the Quran is even more gutted than that. (For Muslims reading this article, I encourage you to read the Gospels for yourself – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – so that........

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