Posted on 10/09/2007 5:03:33 AM PDT by vietvet67
Whatever else his critics say of him, no one can fault President Bush for failing to go the extra mile in his efforts to show that neither he, nor the United States, is opposed to the Islamic faith, or to Muslim nations.
Last week, the president and Mrs. Bush hosted their seventh Iftaar Dinner, the celebration that breaks the Muslim fast during Ramadan. Immediately after 9/11, the president visited a Washington, D.C., mosque and proclaimed Islam a religion of peace. He has frequently said that terrorists are not real Muslims, anymore than people who proclaim to be Christian and engage in violence are genuine Christians.
The president is the most openly evangelical Christian and faithful churchgoer since Jimmy Carter. And the evangelical community has mostly embraced him and twice voted for him in overwhelming numbers. But that constituency is likely to be troubled over something the president said in an interview with Al Arabiya television. In an official transcript released by the White House, the president said,
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. Later in the interview, the president repeated his statement: I believe there is a universal God. I believe the God that the Muslim prays to is the same God that I pray to. After all, we all came from Abraham. I believe in that universality.
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allah is not God.
(lack of capitalization intentional).
The West's only chance for survival is to destroy "allah", along with all that it represents, in the material world.
Otherwise, those who prostate themselves before allah will succeed in doing pretty much the same to us.
- John
And before you say, what do you want to do, kill them all. Well - yes! I want to beat them down so bad that they have to start thinking that maybe worshipping Allah is not a good thing.
But, as you said before, you already have your mind made up and I suppose I do also. Don't bother replying.
Hatred is wasted energy.
Don't hate a problem; solve it.
I thought the Arabs came from Ishmael.
“Noting is inconsistent which is expedient to an Imperial City” Euphemus of Athens
“If President Bush says that the muslim do not worship the same God as Christians there will be political hell to pay in the Middle East, I am 100% sure of this. The President is not going to jeopardize the victory at hand we are seeing in the war on terror just to please some people here at home with one expression.”
The real question jveritas is why he must continue to go out of his way to appease Muslims. Simply being quite now would suffice nicely. The Muslims here at home don’t pay much mind to Bush. On the other side of the globe in Arab countries, his statements are considered blasphemy by our enemies. Their is nothing to gain and much to lose on the political front here at home. Conservative Christians will not vote this election. They know what Hillary is about and Barrak is considered a Muslim. They won’t vote Republicans who have not stood up for conservative Christians. Not voting is the same voting for Hillary.
Galatians 3:16: The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.
“Because the muslim terrorists do the same by quoting their Quran to justify their war, violence, and evil. Do not use the Christian religion as a cover to fight a war, it is against Christianity itself. I am for this war because I want to annihilate the terrorist enemies from existence, I want the terrorists all dead, I think that my extreme hate towards the terrorists and my burning desire to kill them all contradict a lot of my Christian belief and faith but I do not care I want them annihilated from this planet.”
I am Christian and my belief is what Christ admonished and that is to pray for our enemies. I do that so perhaps they may not be destroyed. Christ set the ultimate example dying for all of mankind. War is part of this universe.
Christ said you will know them by their works. I see their works and their works are to destroy the USA and Israel, peoples that wish to simply live in freedom and peace. So I know which God is right and which one wants death to all humanity. I have no qualms as a Christian to annihalate the enemy but my belief is that I feel sorrow for the waste of human life.
If I were President with such beliefs, my message to the Muslims world wide after 911 would have been to choose sides. Choose the side of freedom and liberty or choose the side of death. That if you live by the sword as militant Islam does, you will die by the sword.
A classic euphemism.
War is peace.
And I’m saying don’t say nothing at all then. Or as someone else posted, this is something he should have had a better response for in order to not offend both parties. But no, he’s got to offend Christians. Now - leave me alone!
This is where the Lord wants you to be.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[c] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[d] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
I can't help but think of Israel when they were slaves of Egypt. Egypt started hating Israel when they feared them. Our attitude should be more like sheep to the slaughter when it comes to such things. Perhaps you, like me, have a family that you are trying to raise. Nothing gets us more fired up than when we think our family is threatened. The other day someone shot my son with an air rifle as he biked home. The other other day someone smashed my other son's car window because that son tried to stop a theft at the store where he worked. I just hope to share with you the comfort of the scriptures. The bible says to be anxious for nothing and it says that a sparrow is worth a penny yet not one falls to the ground apart from your heavenly Father and we are worth more than many sparrows.
The Lord bless you for sharing your feelings.
President Bush was very clear shortly after 9/11 by telling the whole world that “either you are with us or you are with the terrorists”. He was right and I am glad that he said it.
I mean to say that hatred of terrorism itself is justified (God Himself hates terrorism) but for us human beings to be motivated by hatred of other human beings leads sooner or later (usually sooner) to uncontrolled violence which is abominated by God.
"...things which the LORD hates,
which are an abomination to Him:
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood..."(Proverbs 6:17-19)
"Abomination" means God detests it, He find it absolutely disgusting.
So one must distinguish between actual armed combatant aggressor enemies, who need to be stopped by force, and the many others, millions, who are simply tangled in the coils of darkness and a false prophet.
>>I think Bush may be sensing the coming massive wave of Muslim conversions to Jesus<<
“The” coming massive wave? Or perhaps “a” coming massive wave?
You make this sound as though a coming massive wave had already been determined with certainty. Are you perhaps referring to something foretold in The Book of Revelations? Where can I learn more about this putative wave of conversion of Moslems to the Christian faith?
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