Why would a Muslim write a book about Jesus?

[Igel]

13. There are other interviews with him.

He didn't just happen to revert. He seriously came to doubt what he'd been taught and to doubt the basis of Xianity. Largely because of the teachings on Jesus.

And that was one of the motivations for his book, although I'm unaware of his saying it was a major one. Jakobson said that you shouldn't let your personal history determine your research programme. He sort of did a bit, and that opened him up to criticism.

Others who've written books on Jesus have had the same deconversion experience and they stay nominal Xians, become agnostic, or go full-tilt atheist.

Muslim writing about Jesus is one thing. Outsiders do that all the time. Convert from Xianity writing about Jesus is a reprobate writing about Jesus.

The question I'd want to ask--and maybe she did in the interview, I don't have the patience to listen to them--is why having abandoned Islam once did he go back to it, esp. if he makes the point that he rejects much of what Islam teachers about Issa.