AFP: 'Islamic Jesus' hits Iranian movie screens
AFP reports: "A director who shares the ideas of Iran's hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the 'common ground' between Muslims and Christians."

Comment: Evidence that God and Allah are not the same: God has a Son, Allah does not. This film presents the Islamic view that Jesus was a holy man of God, a great prophet, but not the Son of God. This view, however, is not tenable. Why? Well, a prophet is not a deceiver or a madman. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, and in fact claimed to be God. These claims are so outrageous as to present us (as C.S. Lewis noted) with a clear choice: either Jesus was who he said he was, or he was a madman. So, Islam has to overlook these claims in order to see him as a great prophet. Note that carefully, they are not accepting the claims that Jesus made about himself and dismissing them, they are ignoring them. Which makes me wonder how it can be that the film, "faithfully follows the traditional tale of Jesus as recounted in the New Testament Gospels, a narrative reproduced in the Koran and accepted by Muslims." This Islamic Jesus is most definitely not the Jesus depicted in the gospels.