[Miss Marple]

Thank you for an excellent explanation. Of course, the critics will pile onto this statement by the president, because the question was set up to be divisive. Either the president answered as he did, OR he had to say that we didn't believe in the same God.

If he had taken the latter approach, the implication to Muslims would be that the president was saying they had a false God, which would have caused severe problems in the Muslims world.

[milan]

They say we worship a false God!!! They say Jesus is not God at all. So who gives a crap what they believe? Who cares if we offend them? You? I don't.

[milan]

which would have caused severe problems in the Muslims world.

Maybe you haven't been watching the news the PAST 30 YEARS!

[carton253]

I don't know why people can't see this. The President is trying very hard not to say that this fight is a clash of civilizations... The media keeps baiting him. He is avoiding the trap... and Christians are running around screaming, "Off with his head."

I am a Christian. I do not believe that Allah and Jehovah are the same. The demotion of Jesus makes it so. Yet, I can understand the strategry of this President avoiding the trap of forcing this battle onto a religious front. I don't under why Christians react in such a kneejerk way everytime the President speaks.

And Muslims believe that we all worship the same God as do many Christian scholars.