Well, the President of the United States is the President of ALL the citizens of this country, including the 5 million or so Muslims who are citizens here.
The POTUS is not a minister. He is not a theologian. He is a President.
Muslims believe that the Judeo-Christian deity and Allah are the same entity. President Bush is addressing their beliefs, not yours.
If he addressed a Jewish group at one of the Jewish holidays, he would not mention Jesus in his remarks. If he addressed a Buddhist group, he would mention no deities at all.
Do not confuse his remarks as reflecting HIS beliefs. They reflect the beliefs of the audience he is addressing.
That's good enough for me. Let's impeach him then burn him at the stake.
President Roosevelt didn't initiate Shinto ceremonies with the Japanese, or conduct book-burning rituals with Nazis. Why does this President pander to our enemies and leave our economy open for plunder by foreign labor? Unacceptable!
ALL of the Bushes are Arab lovers and Moslem lovers. No surprise since Bush 41 is Anglecan(sp?) and Bush 43 is "United Methodist".
I always vote for the president who will tell which is the true God. You need to get over it and go to church and pray quietly.
So many names for God, you'd think this was the Tibetan highlands or something. Gimme a prayer wheel eh!
President Bush needs to put the crack pipe away and stop pandering to the Muslims. He sounds foolish. We are at war with this "religion" BECAUSE of their beliefs.
Muhammadanism = desert based pagan cult
Muhammadanism = revanchism
Say what you want about Rudy Giuliani regarding abortion. Rudy would NEVER be caught dead uttering such despicable words as did George W. Bush at this Satanic gatheric. NEVER.
It's the job of all non islamic religious leaders to speak out about the abomination of Allah.
It drives me crazy that certain religious leaders seem stuck on irrelevant social issues.
Bush sucking up to Muslums and their false god is enough to make a Rino and Bushbot hurl.
I think it's possible to concede that in some way, Muslims do indeed worship the One True God, even if they badly misunderstand him and man's relationship to him.
It goes without saying that the revelation of Christian Scripture and the Qu'ran cannot be reconciled. They can't both be right. The Qu'ran denies that Christ is God and denies the Resurrection. Jesus is reduced merely to a very great prophet.
For all that, the president's words, however well intended, go overboard. It's possible to show respect for Muslim beliefs - nay, even to admire some facets of their faith (most Westerners could learn from their intense devotion to prayer, for example) - without giving away the theological ranch.
For the most part Christians seem to have matured over the decades. Yet we still need the occasional reminder.
Sometimes, when some imam somewhere, or some muktar counsels the death of infidels, I wonder to myself how many Muslims would need to be counseled with extreme prejudice before the idea of a jihad would lose its appeal. When France completes the transition to a muslin country you will have one that is a nuclear power. So the question has meaning.
Maybe avian flu will render the problem moot.
Reads as though Bush places more faith in Masonic thinking than in thinking in faith through Christ.
President Bush did not mis-speak, and he did not equate God and Allah. That sentenced was prefaced "According to the teachings of Islam . . ." That is absolutely a true statement of Islamic teachings. Bush said that Islam traces it's beginnings back to Abraham. Also true.
Bush didn't say that he, personally, believed any of it, or that Islamic teachings were true. The guy who wrote this piece needs to learn to listen carefully. Bush spoke no falsehood or blasphemy here.
Bill Clinton had the good sense not to celebrate Ramadan and did not offend Christians and Jews by making blasphemous remarks against the Triune God. Supporting false religions is not required of presidents in our constitution. I would much rather have him not say anything at all about religion than this pandering to false gods for political reasons. God's judgement will be upon him and this country for these idolatrous actions.
What does it take?
Watching this ongoing series of suicidal events in America from abroad has become a terribly sad affair.