From Wikipedia: In Islam, Simon Peter (Arabic: شَمْعُون ٱلصَّفَا, Šamʿūn aṣ-Ṣafā), known in Arabic as Shamoun as-Safa or Shamoun ibn Hammoun (شَمْعُون ٱبْن حَمُّون, Šamʿūn ibn Ḥammūn), was one of the original disciples of Jesus
Muslim revere Jesus Christ and his mother and the Jews have extreme hatred for Jesus and his mother - and that is why I don't understand how any Christians would not want to distance themselves from the executioners of Christ!