Jewish he was indeed.
Jihad needs smarter idiots or sumpin.
Well, the Muslims say that not only Jesus was a Muslim, but Abraham was a Muslim and Adam was a Muslim...
No, I’m not joking or kidding here. That’s the truth, according to them. How they arrive at that is that their religion is the true religion and thus, those others were also believers in the truth and had the “true religion” therefore, they were Muslims, too.
And, along with that, apparently they say that Abraham and his son Ishmael went to the area of Mecca to build the shrine there (or something to that effect, can’t remember the exact scenario that they present with Abraham...).
It has nothing to do with low long before Islam these people lived, but rather that Islam was *restoring* the true religion that the Christians and Jews had corrupted.
It’s like the Mormons saying that they are “restoring” Christianity to its “true form” and that all the Christian churches of Joseph Smith’s day (and today, too) are teaching and preaching a false and corrupted gospel.
All such cult groups — whether Islam or Mormonism or Jehovah’s Witnesses — all make up ridiculous stories about how they are restoring or preaching the *true gospel* — doncha know... :-)