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Yeah, I know.
For the record, I don't really care about that stuff. The bacon thing happened at my mosque and most of us shook our heads and laughed it off. A few people got pissed, but that was clearly the intent of the bacon militia. Bacon won the day.
I think it's odd that people would leave a crucified Jesus at a mosque, but I'm not sure you can get punished for it. Clearly the intent is to incite (Muslims obviously believe that Jesus was a prophet and was not killed, hence the crucifixion stuff being problematic) by leaving that at another religion's house of worship, but I dunno where you draw the line between inciting (in today's climate) and proselytizing, as you say.
If some Satanic org left a photo of God, Mary, Jesus, etc... with decapitated heads at the church doorstep, I honestly don't know what the ruling on something like that would be. *shrugs* Leaving a Bible or something like that would be different, so I'm not sure.
I was not aware of this Muslim belief. So I learned something today.
I googled this and came up with the following:
"There is a reference in the Qur'an concerning the crucifixion of Jesus: Sura 4:157-158: "They [the Jews] slew him[Jesus] not nor crucified [him], but it appeared so unto them...they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain, But Allah took him up unto Himself."
Though the Qur'an does not say so expressly, the interpretation of many Muslims is that Muhammad (or Mohammed) taught that Jesus was replaced by another man as Jesus was carrying the cross and that the other man was the one crucified, not Jesus.
There are other references in the Qur'an on this. For more reading consult Suras 3:55 and the whole of Sura 19:27-35 and 19:91-95. There is not much precision here. Muhammad mixes Moses' sister Miriam and Jesus' mother Mary. He seems to say that Jesus ascended without dying, that God had no son, and that Jesus is a recognized prophet of Allah."
Don't know if this is an accurate account of why they believe Christ was not crucified, but I would be interested in any enlightenment you might offer.