We're in a one-way situation here (what else is new?). We say we respect them as equals, that their god is our God. And they spit on the ground and call us infidels. We delude ourselves when we say it's all the same. They know better.
But that doesn't mean we cannot work with them and build relations.
You think so?! Well you have no idea how muslims and Middle Eastern think, I do.