What Jews and Christians were Muslims?

Answer 1

Given that Muslims extend the Islamic Prophetic lineage to people who professed to be either Jewish or Christian, any of these prophets would be considered Muslims by modern Muslims. (Examples would include: Abraham/Ibrahim, Moses/Musa, Jesus/3isa, Jonah/Yunes, etc.)

However, since Judaism and Christianity are separate faiths from Islam, by definition, no Jew or Christian is a Muslim.

Answer 2

Answer 1

The Muslims think Jesus is merely a prophet and not the Son of the true God. They think all Christians are infidels. The related link gives you some idea of their differences.

* Muslims don't think either Christians nor jews as Infidels the meaning of infidel in Arabic ( that who doesn't believe in god) which doesn't apply to neither Christians nor jews during muslim conquests they were told specifically not to touch Christian churches or jewish temples, but to destroy all statues and other totems worshiped back then.

Answer 2

While there are certainly some Muslims that hold that Christians are infidels (since the Trinity is construed by these Muslims to be a violation of "shirk" - the idea that no being should be co-equal with God), most Muslims see Jews and Christians as misguided forerunners to Islam. In the Islamic view, these people have the right intentions and a correct knowledge of who God is, but their elders have altered their holy books to suit their own purposes as opposed to Qur'an which has undergone no such editing. (It is not surprising, therefore, that Muslim countries actively try to quash early archaeological research into Qur'ans which has begun to show a progressive changing of the Qur'an's wording over two centuries.)

Answer 3

Jews were fighting with Muslim to get a land which called Israel. Jews are enemy with Muslim.

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Another contributor stops by, briefly, just to point out that

the answer above could not have been written by a Jew.

Answer 4

When? There has been nearly 1300 years of serious interaction between the three religions. During the vast length of that time, there was a general respect and approval of Islam and of Muslims. Islam was, for most of the medieval period, relatively tolerant of the other monotheistic faiths. Jews and Christians had a relative freedom and security of their persons that was not existent for Jews or Muslims in Christian Europe. This led to much Jewish support of the Islamic regimes since it "was better than the alternative". It is important to note, however, that this period of toleration has often mistakenly been seen as universal under Islamic governance, and mistakenly that it was exactly like the modern concept of Human Rights. To the first count, there are numerous Islamic Massacres and Pogroms against Jews and Christians like those perpetrated by the Almohads, even though they were significantly rarer than in Christian Europe. To the second count, Jews and Christians were allowed to live in Islamic countries by right of the sovereign which meant that they had to submit to unfair taxation (such as the jizya and kharaj), certain neighborhoods, an inability to openly preach or practice "insulting parts of their faith", and had serious difficulties in protecting their legal rights (such as giving witness testimony).

These misperceptions are quite common in Muslim circles which earns them much ire among Jews and Christians living today who clearly note the inequality between Muslims and non-Muslims in Muslim-majority countries and see the lack of willpower by Muslims to not promote and systematically deny any change in the status quo to be an act of supreme intolerance and cognitive dissonance with what they say they believe.