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As usual right from your first line you speak nothing but utter garbage.

Can you show me any Muslim declaring this?

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Your error is in the fact that you assume predestination/preordainment by Allah precludes us from choosing our destiny. It does not. It simply means that God already knows what we are going to choose. When we make our choice, we have no knowledge of what he's predestined for us, and therefore no contradiction occurs.

You simply deny God his attribute of omni-science. You've modified your view of God, to answer the questions proposed by atheists and other disbelievers, when in fact no contradiction existed to begin with. You've sold your religion for a miserable price.

The concept of predestination (even by this name) is mentioned in the Bible on a few occasions. You just don't read your book much, as you're too busy reading Islamophobic websites...

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Romans 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will

Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will

1Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory

2Timopthy 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began

Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain

Isaiah 46:10-11 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it.

Christians have problems explaining predestination vs. free will, because they do not understand it properly. So some choose to bury their heads in the sand and just accept it, whilst others reject it and try to explain through all sorts of reasoning that it never existed in Christianity to begin with. Christians have been arguing over this for thousands of years now, and it's been instrumental in quite a few schisms over the centuries.

Muslims on the other hand can clearly recognise there is no contradiction, because man doesn't possess God's knowledge, and therefore acts purely on his own choice.

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So if you are struck down by lightening tomorrow, you chose it? Interesting...

Your twisted logic on this issue presents more problems than it solves. The clear Islamic doctrine does not present any.

I respect you Yadda for recognising that we can actually share a similar viewpoint on something. You've shown yourself to be a true follower of Christ (pbuh) in this respect.