No doubt by now you have all seen Linda Sarsour’s now-infamous tweet about Jesus.
Historical revisionism at its worst, Sarsour was rightly pilloried for it, and then insulted everyone’s intelligence further by trying to claim she was not suggesting he wasn’t Jewish:
Leaving aside the fact the name “Palestine” did not come into official use way after Jesus’ time (the early second century A.D, when the emperor Hadrian decided to rename the province of Judaea “Syria Palaestina”), Sarsour’s tweet was a trial balloon designed to see just how far she can go with her historical revisionism.
I could go also go into what the Quran actually does say about Jesus, but it has already been done. I have a different angle I want to highlight.
Her tweet was a response to one Bishop Talbert Swan, who she sees as her “tag-team” buddy in this discussion
Swan is clearly someone she respects
This all seems to reinforce the ties between the two as I showed early this year:
And why is this relationship at all of interest? As I pointed out in my previous post about their relationship, Swan edited a book Closing the Closet: Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality, a book that details the testimonies of people who claim they are no longer gay. I have seen no evidence of him disowning these anti-LGBTQ views.
Yet Sarsour continues to paint herself as some ally of the LGBTQ community. That’s about as ridiculous as the idea of Jesus being “Palestinian.”
