Why Isa (a.s) portrayed in this manner?

Question

Some Africans have asked my sis on her trip to Africa that, Why is Isa (a.s) Jesus always portrayed by the west as being a white man?

Answer 1

I'm not sure..

Hope someone who know will tell you why :)

Answer 2

Prophets should not be portrayed at all.

Answer 3

Well, Arab or Jew men is white for me.

Answer 4

peace and blessings be upon you. the prophet described te features of prophet isa and he was of the banu israel so he was white or a lighter shade to be exact. he also did have long hair.

Answer 5

I agree with  "D" Arabs & Jews are white & he belong from one of them too.. So we assumed he was white too.. But the rest Allah knows the best..

Better not to get in these type of arguments.. It will only confused you & withdraw u ...

Answer 6

What Christianity we see today has nothing to do with Isa bin Maryam of Nazareth. One of his disciple Paul, who was actually Roman, set out the basis of modern Christianity. Later at the times of Roman Emperor Constintine, the Pagans and Paul's version of Christianity was infused to get hold of Jesus beleivers. The Bible was also written at that time.

This made the christianity a western origin relegion!

Read more here:

http://www.alislam.org/library/books/chr...

A free download of the book is here:

http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Chr...

Answer 7

Because whites make images that they can associate with. I have seen black and latino Jesus descriptions, too.

After all is said and done, it is what it represents that counts, not what he used to look like.

Answer 8

the Presentation of Jesus by the west as a Caucasian male with white hair and blue eyes is the clear proof that the church have falsified all the facts about Jesus to make him look as they wish, the easiest thing to do back at the time was to present him as a Caucasian man, so they can get Caucasians (Europeans) to accept their claims easily. it would have been much harder to convince Caucasians that the "son of their God" is middle eastern (Jew).

the movie "passion of the Christ" was heavily criticized by Jew because it reminds Christians of the sad fact the Jews tried to kill Jesus and according to the movie "they killed him".

but the movie was also denounced by many Christians because it shows with clear and reasonable  evidence that Jesus was in fact not Caucasian at all which contradicts almost every real and mental picture they had of him.

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as a matter of fact Jesus was indeed a white man but not Caucasian.

the Prophet gave us a clear and precise description of his physiology.