Brothers of apes and pigs

f with such success in popular Muslim discourse – he suggests that it is possible to say that the Jews are “brothers of apes and pigs,” because essentially, they became “like them". 

There's some further musing – as I understand it – on the possibility that whereas the Jews were turned into apes, the early Christians were turned into pigs. For, um, rejecting Jesus. This is odd, given that Christians, by definition, do not reject Jesus. Presumably you'd need years of study in the finer points of Islamic theology to fully understand all this.