April 5th, 2004
‘The Passion’ a Hit Among Arabs
CAIRO, Egypt—Hanan Nsour, a veiled, 21-year-old Muslim in Jordan, came out of “The Passion of the Christ” in tears and pronounced her verdict: Mel Gibson’s crucifixion epic “unmasked the Jews’ lies and I hope that everybody, everywhere, turns against the Jews.”
The Quran, though, says Jesus’s crucifixion never happened.
Such are the contradictions that are welling up [...]