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Of all the things to focus on, you choose this, falling into the trap of the idiot reporter who asked that intentionally divisive question.

It's strange how the word "divisive" is considered to be a bad word these days. Like "intolerant" But both words are neutral, and sometimes division and intolerance are required. Such as when you want to know the truth. In that case, divisiveness is good, for truth is found when you divide right from wrong. Without division there is no truth.

Of all the things to focus on, you choose this, falling into the trap of the idiot reporter who asked that intentionally divisive question.

Why is this a trap?
What does divisive really mean, other than "you're disagreeing with me, and people are listening?"
President Bush has embarked on a high-stakes gamble that is predicated on a quite controversial, and dubious, understanding of Islam. He's the one who coined the phrases "religion of peace" and "Islam means peace."
There's very little evidence that these are true. Turkey is frequently offered as the exception, but Turkey's democracy required a few genocides, a bloody secularization, and the subsequent purging of most of its Christians and Jews anyway.
Islam, since its inception by Mohammed, has meant tyranny, bloodshed, oppression, and conversion at swordpoint. Would the God of Jesus Christ choose Mohammed as a vessel to compose a bloody book of heresies?
Still, we're on this Age of Liberty experiment with Islam, and we may as well go through it. I expect it will ultimately fail, but that won't mean the experiment wasn't worth conducting. Then we can get on with the Clash of Civilizations in earnest.

Of all the things to focus on, you choose this, falling into the trap of the idiot reporter who asked that intentionally divisive question

You mean decisive question don't you??.

If Mr. Bush believes that Christians and Muslims are praying to the same God,he can know nothing about the Gospel of Jesus Christ as explained in the Bible.

If you don't understand the Gospel, you can't be a Christian or saved.

The fact that Muslims and other heathen religions can't abide is that Jesus Christ is GOD.

Joh 3:13

And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

Which is in heaven. This is a very remarkable expression. Jesus, the Son of man, was then bodily on earth conversing with Nicodemus; yet he declares that he is at the same time in heaven. This can be understood only as referring to the fact that he had two natures--that his divine nature was in heaven, and his human nature on earth.

Genesis:

In the Beginning the Universe was without form and
void. But God was there. That is who/what God IS, that which was
before there was anything. God is still there. God is the very
framework and background and initiating force of everything that we
can see, feel or know.

Then God said let there be Light!. And Time began. All was chaos
and confusion. But God could never allow this lawlessness to continue and
swiftly ordered all into law and order and cycles and simplicity. The
universe grew more and more beautiful and complex. The very laws of
God demanded Growth, Change, Diversity. A point was reached when it
seemed
all
was, if not stable, then predictable, proceeding with nothing essentially
New. But God had not finished The universe was dividing into two
parts.
One whole still, whole in the heart of God, but a duality a
polarization had occurred. God had breathed the Breath of Life into
the World. This polarity deepened and grew. Again God's law had
taken Beauty more Beautiful. Then Life began to assume it's own
duality, a rich harmony based in and an echo of the primal split.
Male and Female were they created, Life reaching to Life to create
Beauty and change and growth. Life followed it's cycles and rippled
through time to God's Law but even then God was not finished. God
had let life produce a Mind, a Soul to
act
for God always in accordance with God's Law.