American Muslim Leader Slams Wheaton 'Christians and Muslims Worship Same God' [1 John 2]

Christian Post ^ | 1/25/2016 | Samuel Smith

[Jan_Sobieski]

Islam teaches that Christians and Muslims worship the same god, the head of The Center on American-Islamic Relations wrote last week in defense of a suspended Wheaton College professor who asserted that notion on Facebook in December. In an op-ed condemning the Illinois Evangelical higher education institution for suspending and attempting to fire political science professor Dr. Larycia Hawkins for asserting that Christians and Muslims worship the same deity, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad argued that the school's belief that the two religions don't worship the same God displays a level of "ignorance."

"It is clear that Wheaton College has the right to its own theological stance on the nature of God, but from an Islamic perspective, there is only one deity worshiped by Muslims, Christians and Jews," Awad asserted. "In fact, the Muslim declaration of faith (shahada) states: 'There is no god but God.' "Now one might claim that Muslims worship 'Allah,' not 'God,' but that would be in willful ignorance of the fact that 'Allah' is merely the Arabic translation for 'God' and that all Arabic-speaking Christians refer to 'Allah' in their prayers," Awad added. "Muslims commonly use either 'God' or 'Allah' when referring to the single deity. Islam's Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: 'Both in this world and in the Hereafter, I am the nearest of all people to Jesus, the son of Mary. The prophets are paternal brothers; their mothers are different, but their religion is one.'"

Awad continued by stating that it is revealed in the Quran that there is unity among the monotheistic faiths...

[Pollster1]

Mono-, bi-, tri-, tetra- . . . Allah shows up in the Bible a lot, including in Job and tempting Jesus in the wilderness, but he is not God or even a god. Otherwise, we would refer to the “Tetranity” of Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Satan.

[faithhopecharity]

By their fruits ye shall know them. Allah is Satan, -and most definitely NOT the one true God of Christians and Jews. Not in a million years. If a Moslem sincerely wishes to pray to the real God, who is Love, not terrorist gang murders, tortures, crucifixions, and bombings, s/he is cordially invited to get a Bible ( prohibited in Saudi Arabia) and pray.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

Fact time:

Different religions worship different gods, that's why they are ... different religions. Hopefully that's not too difficult.

Many centuries before Christianity and Islam existed, Jews worshiped the One True G-d:

Sh'ma Yisra'eil Adokai Elokeinu Adokai echad.
Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.

Judaism has no figure that is both man & god, alive and dead, simultaneously 3 gods and 1 god, was here, died, came back, will come back again, etc. Judaism has the ONE True G-d before Christianity & Islam were invented.

Christianity claims the G-d of the Jews, but worships another god, hence they aren't worshiping the One True G-d. The figure described above and a "new testament" were glued on AFTER the Jewish Torah and Jewish Nevi'im to form a DIFFERENT religion.

Islam also claims the One True G-d but their behavior clearly indicates otherwise and their Muhammad (perfect man on earth) is similar the Christian god (perfect man on earth) or the Pope (infallible man on earth).