Jesus was a Muslim, claims U.S. religions professor

Religions professor at the Luther College in Iowa, Robert F. Shedinger, has made a controversial claim in a new book, arguing that Jesus Christ was a Muslim.

In the beginning of his book, to be released this year, Shedinger asked “Was Jesus a Muslim?”

“I will answer with a very qualified yes,” he wrote. 

Dalam permulaan buku tersebut, beliau yang akan dikeluarkan tahun ini, Shedinger bertanya “Adakah Jesus seorang Muslim?”

“Saya akan menjawab dengan ya sangat berkelayakan,” katanya.

Profesor agama di Kolej Luther di Iowa, Robert F. Shedinger, telah membuat tuntutan yang kontroversi di dalam buku baru, berhujah bahawa jesus adalah seorang Muslim.

Pada musim bunga tahun 2001, metodologi Shedinger pengajaran Islam telah dipersoalkan oleh salah seorang pelajar yang dibesarkan dalam keluarga Islam, menurut laporan oleh Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Fox.

Pelajar, perempuan, memberitahu profesor beliau bahawa cara beliau menyampaikan Islam kepada pelajar-pelajar beliau tidak persamaan terdedah kepada cara dia telah diajar tentang agama sendiri dalam membesarkan beliau.

The student, a female, told her professor that the way he was conveying Islam to his students didn’t bare resemblance to the way she was taught about her own religion in her upbringing.

Shedinger said in an interview that the questioning of his view on Islam motivated him to completely re-think his whole concept about the religion and the way he was applying it to his teaching.

Shedinger, who is the head of the religious studies department at Luther College in Iowa, also argued that Islam is a better fit for Jesus since it is not a religion but a “social justice movement,” Fox reported.

“I had to rethink what Islam is… I came to the conclusion that it was a social justice movement and I think that’s who Jesus was in the first century so I conclude Jesus is more like a Muslim,” he said.



Islam’s Prophet Mohammed is believed to have received revelations that were eventually cited in the Quran at around 622 AD; the date historians, Muslims and Christians believe the birth of Islam to be. Jesus is believed to have lived more than 600 years earlier.

Shedinger’s book also addresses the relationship between Christians and Muslims and how they can “work together to promote social justice in the world.”