Please review this link for the truth about Allah!
Please click here for a synopsis on the book Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam by Robert Spencer–A must read! What is Bush thinking? **walking away, shaking my head**
Another great article on Bush’s love for Islamism
Cal Thomas’ article: The Same God?
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TESTING THE FAITH
Bush: All religions pray to ’same God’
‘That’s what I believe. I believe Islam is a great religion that preaches peace’
By WorldNetDaily.com
Posted: October 7, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
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President George Bush has repeated his belief all religions, “whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God” – an assertion that caused outrage among evangelical leaders when he said it in November 2003.
Bush made the statement Friday in an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi.
Al Arabiya is Al Jazeerah’s top competitor in the Mideast.
As the president and Nakouzi walked from the Oval Office to the Map Room in the White House residence, Nazouki asked, “But I want to tell you – and I hope this doesn’t bother you at all – that in the Islamic world they think that President Bush is an enemy of Islam – that he wants to destroy their religion, what they believe in. Is that in any way true, Mr. President?”
“No, it’s not,” said Bush. “I’ve heard that, and it just shows [sic] to show a couple of things: One, that the radicals have done a good job of propagandizing. In other words, they’ve spread the word that this really isn’t peaceful people versus radical people or terrorists, this is really about the America not liking Islam.
“Well, first of all, I believe in an Almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God. That’s what I believe. I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace. And I believe people who murder the innocent to achieve political objectives aren’t religious people, whether they be a Christian who does that – we had a person blow up our – blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City who professed to be a Christian, but that’s not a Christian act to kill innocent people.
“And I just simply don’t subscribe to the idea that murdering innocent men, women and children – particularly Muslim men, women and children in the Middle East – is an act of somebody who is a religious person.
Friday’s statement echoes one made by Bush in November 2003 during a joint press conference with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. A reporter noted Bush had frequently expressed the view that freedom is a gift from “the Almighty,” but questioned whether Bush believes “Muslims worship the same Almighty” as the president and other Christians do.
“I do say that freedom is the Almighty’s gift to every person. I also condition it by saying freedom is not America’s gift to the world,” Bush replied. “It’s much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same god,” reported the London Telegraph.
Reaction from U.S. evangelical leaders was swift and strong.
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, was quoted in the Baptist Press as saying the president “is simply mistaken.”
According to a Washington Post account, Land said in an interview: “We should always remember that he is commander in chief, not theologian in chief. The Bible is clear on this: The one and true god is Jehovah, and his only begotten son is Jesus Christ.”
The Rev. Ted Haggard, then-president of the National Association of Evangelicals, also contradicted the president in a press statement. “The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health,” said Haggard. “The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad’s central message was submission; Jesus’ central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities.”
In November 2006, Haggard was forced to resign from NAE following allegations of drug use and sex with a homosexual prostitute.
Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate and president of American Values, said Bush’s comment was “not helpful to the president. Since everybody agrees he’s not a theologian, he would be much better advised to punt when he gets that kind of question.”
In Friday’s interview with Al Arabiya, Bush emphasized his outreach to Muslims.
“We are having an Iftaar dinner tonight – I say, ‘we’ – it’s my wife and I,” Bush told Nakouzi. “This is the seventh one in the seven years I’ve been the president. It gives me a chance to say ‘Ramadan Mubarak.’ The reason I do this is I want people to understand about my country. In other words, I hope this message gets out of America. I want people to understand that one of the great freedoms in America is the right for people to worship any way they see fit. If you’re a Muslim, an agnostic, a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, you’re equally American.
“And the value – the most valuable thing I think about America is that – particularly if you’re a religious person – you can be free to worship, and it’s your choice to make. It’s not the state’s choice, and you shouldn’t be intimidated after you’ve made your choice. And that’s a right that I jealously guard.
“Secondly, I want American citizens to see me hosting an Iftaar dinner.”
“That’s a strong message for the Americans,” said Nakouzi.
Last year, WND reported criticism of Bush from Wafa Sultan, a native of Syria, who said the president was empowering terrorist leaders whose ultimate aim is for Islamic law to govern the world by proclaiming Islam a “religion of peace.”
“I believe he undermines our credibility by saying that,” said Sultan. “We came from Islam, and we know what kind of religion Islam is.”
ontoligist
on Oct 9th, 2007
@ 5:23 am:
Bush is only being consistent with Masonic and Skull&Bones beliefs about God, if he really believes this “We all worship the same god” nonsense coming out of his mouth.
So, does Bush really worship the same god as Ahmahdi-nejad, Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot? It appears that he hasn’t thought this through at all. He doesn’t know what the Hell he is talking about, I hope!
ontoligist
on Oct 9th, 2007
@ 5:27 am:
Bush is our Dhimmi-in-Chief
jsag
on Oct 9th, 2007
@ 10:36 pm:
Religion is the worst invention of man. More people have killed or been killed in the name of God than because of any other reason in human history. More people have been mislead by leaders evoking the name of God than any other reason. Any sentient human confronted with a fervent religious follower will discover that every religion thinks that it is the only true faith which is inherently impossible.
No Compromises
on Oct 9th, 2007
@ 10:42 pm:
Actually, Secular Humanism, the religion of the Left, has murdered and tortured more people on this planet than ALL religions combined!
hotconflict
on Oct 11th, 2007
@ 12:02 am:
http://www.hotconflict.com/blog/2007/10/allah-the-god-o.html
It is not appeasement it is Fact.
There is only One God!
There seems to be a lot of debate here in the United States. Many people are trying to suggest that the God Allah of the Muslims is not the same God of the other monotheistic religions. This is a very serious misunderstanding of Islam and I am surprised it is so common in this society. The very essence of the message of Islam is that there is no other God than Allah. The God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad.
ontologist
on Oct 11th, 2007
@ 4:59 am:
What is universal among all men is not that we all worship the same God, but rather that we have all sinned against the One true Holy God, YHWH; and that we are all in need of the forgiveness of sins YHWH offers us by trusting in the blood atonement of Yeshua’s death, and obeying Him completely with our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength.
See my post at:
http://christisthemeasure.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/do-all-people-everywhere-worship-the-same-god-is-bush-right-about-this/
Qwerty the cucumber
on Oct 21st, 2007
@ 9:39 pm:
Exactly. One way you could look at this universal sinning against YHWH is to note that every single world religion, even the animistic ones, is a corruption of the original one set forth in the Torah. And yes, I sin every moment by not loving Him with all my being and not loving my neighbor as myself.
No Compromises
on Oct 21st, 2007
@ 10:15 pm:
Amen, Qwerty! The Islamists do not love YHWH with all of their hearts, souls, minds and bodies, and they do not love their neighbors as themselves. If they did then they do worship the same Yah as we do! Those are the greatest commandments in the world. There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for another. Instead, the Islamists slaughter, control, hate, pillage, rape, lie, and make threats. If that’s love from the One true God then send me straight to hell! Btw, is Qwerty the cucumber from Veggie Tales? If not, where did you get your name?
Qwerty the cucumber
on Oct 22nd, 2007
@ 12:33 am:
It is from Veggie Tales, one of my favorite sources for one-liners. However, the cucumber is named Larry, but the computer is named Qwerty. The names have a nice (perhaps juvenile?) ring, no?
No Compromises
on Oct 22nd, 2007
@ 12:39 am:
LOL! I guess Qwerty the cucumber has a better ring to it rather than Larry the blogger!
Qwerty the cucumber
on Oct 22nd, 2007
@ 3:16 pm:
Responding to hotconflict: If Muslims and Christians etc. worship the same God, then why do their scriptures have critical differences? And no, you can’t claim that the Quran is perfectly preserved and the Bible is corrupted, because history and textual evidence don’t square with that. In fact, evidence leans more strongly toward the position that the Quran is not preserved.
I’ve heard all the objections. My answer: http://www.answering-islam.org – it answers everything.